File this under “another thing I should’ve done ages ago.” I decided that I should explore the world of Nginx as a web server since many people have been telling me it’s good. And all I can say is holy shit, it’s good. The setup was simple and after a few idiotic mistakes on my [...]
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Ubuntu: Sharing is Caring
April 29th, 2011
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Over the last 24 hours, since the release of Ubuntu 11.04, I’ve managed to upload over 200GB on the torrents. Here’s a little graph of my bandwidth use. I’m sure this is just a drop int he bucket. It’d be interesting to see how much other individuals upload during the same release time. I don’t [...]
I Finally Upgraded to Debian 5
October 17th, 2009
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On my production web server, I’m kind of a crazy fool. I often do things that make people cringe and scream and say “what the hell are you doing?” One of those said things is doing a distribution upgrade on-the-fly of the OS. Since the installation of my server some three and a half years [...]
Replacing a Live System RAID On The Fly
June 26th, 2009
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Well, this is one of those crazy fun things that I had to attempt. My old system drive consisted of two 80 GB IDE drives in a mirror configuration. Pretty standard, but they were getting sluggish and I happen to have a few 320GB SATA drives doing nothing. This is not a tutorial. This is [...]
