Archive for the ‘Gentoo’ Category
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Many people already know that I dabble with Asterisk on a daily basis. Our Linux distribution of choice here at work, also happens to be Gentoo.
Now, when updating Gentoo's 'world' package base, you do get some problems occassionally. This is a downside to being 'on the cutting edge' and, it's ...
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
Recently, the company I work for has been looking for a way to simulate poor or slow connections to the server component of their next software product. I'm sure you'd all agree that it's important to know how well your server compensates for those with less than ideal Internet connectivity, ...
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Friday, June 29th, 2007
So in the last few weeks, we've been wondering why all these sets of new 500GB hard disks have been degrading in their RAID-5 array, merely hours after being created. Which was also around the time that I'd finished setting up Gentoo, frustratingly.
Eventually it was decided that instead of making ...
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Tuesday, June 19th, 2007
Yep, a second lot of Seagate drives has failed in the server that I mentioned a few days back...
It's got me wondering if the drives aren't the problem here. It's two different series of drives, albeit from the same manufacturer, though the second lot were the more expensive line.
But either ...
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Saturday, June 9th, 2007
It's been two weeks (roughly) since I started my placement, and there has been quite a bit to learn.
My first week has given me time to get to grips with my new environment, and also gave me a steep introduction into the systems that I'm going to be responsible for ...
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