partition alignment

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i’ve got new hdd delivered. it’ll be used as one of rotated disks for offline backup storage. it is WDC WD15EARS-00Z5B1 – WD Caviar Green 1.5 TB and is one of first disks with 4kB physical sectors instead of 512B ones. i’ve read at some places about performance impact of miss-aligned linux partitions for write ... Read More

calls from nagios

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i’ve been using nagios to monitor my infrastructure for long time. in most cases it’s sending just e-mails. at ecowin/reuters i also had it connected with sms gateway. Siements TC35 connected via serial cable to linux box served us very well. i used debian’s scmxx to send messages. i’ve been thinking recently about using SIP ... Read More

firefighting – asn32 and quagga crash

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debian lenny, out-of-the-box quagga_0.99.10-1lenny1_i386 symptoms of disaster in bgpd.log: 2009/05/03 14:00:47 BGP: Assertion `len < str_size' failed in file bgp_aspath.c, line 619, function aspath_make_str_count 2009/05/03 14:00:47 BGP: Backtrace for 14 stack frames: 2009/05/03 14:00:47 BGP: [bt 0] /usr/lib/libzebra.so.0(zlog_backtrace+0x2a) [0xb7f50a5a] 2009/05/03 14:00:47 BGP: [bt 1] /usr/lib/libzebra.so.0(_zlog_assert_failed+0x77) [0xb7f50be7] [..]

spain

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20090317-malaga,antequera,torremolinos 20090318-torremolinos,ronda,manilva 20090319-manilva,gibraltar,la barrosa 20090320-la barrosa,cadiz,sevilla 20090321-sevilla,carmona,almodovar del rio,cordoba 20090322-cordoba 20090323-cordoba,sierra nevada,granada 20090324-granada,calahonda 20090325-calahonda,malaga 20090326-malaga pics: http://fot.kudzia.eu/index.php/20090326-andalucia lesson learned: leaving car with couple of backpacks at the back seat in spain is bad idea. window to back door in ford focus + replacement costs 90E.

FAR

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far is old school console file manager for windows. since quite a while it was open sourced but i’ve never had enough patience to find actual builds of it. now i got them: you can download lagal free builds of far woot !

guests

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i think i should start having regular job as tour-guide around goteborg. for last two weeks i was pretty busy with showing around two of my friends from poland – ola & rav. we’ve visited all usual suspects in goteborg, went to oslo, took sauna few times, had a party. i’ll do my best to ... Read More

slacker season

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summer. 20-25 C degrees, sunshine. bike/swimming/going around just for sake of it just about every evening. almost perfect. some of those rare in-front-of-the-pc activities: i’ve installed ubuntu to see if it’s any good. verdict? e.. i already have debian, why should i get something like it that is not exactly debian? maybe if i would ... Read More