Tag: Sysadmin

25 Jun 2020
How to fix terminal title after disconnecting from ssh
For some reason, ssh does not clean up after itself in terms of updating the terminal title when you disconnect. Here ...
28 May 2020
Getting Docker Desktop Working with WSL2 on Windows
I ran into several issues while trying to get this to work. Here are the steps I had to complete to get it working. Hop...
12 Apr 2018
ZFS Deleting files doesn't free up space
So I have a proxmox server on which I run a few VMs and the other day it completely ran out of space. This was because ...
16 Aug 2017
Understanding ZFS Disk Utilisation and available space
I am hopeful the following will help someone scratch their head a little less in trying to understand the info returned...
21 Mar 2012
Restricting Linux Logins to Specified Group
If you have linux boxes that authenticate over ldap but want logins for specific boxes to be restricted to a particular...
20 Dec 2011
Looping from the bash commandline [1113]
I figured this out the other day from idle curiosity. There is occassionally the need to have a never ending loop to be...
20 Dec 2011
Expanding glusterfs volumes [1112]
[Once you have set up a glusterfs volume](/2011/11/24/glusterfs-howto/ "GlusterFS HOWTO [1108]"), you might want to exp...
24 Nov 2011
My Thoughts on OCFS2 / Understanding OCFS2 [1110]
[As mentioned earlier](/2011/11/24/glusterfs-howto/ "GlusterFS HOWTO [1108]"), we have been considered networked filesy...
24 Nov 2011
Exporting X11 to Windows [1109]
Playing Skyrim the last week, sometimes I just missed Linux so terribly that I wanted a piece of it and not just the co...
24 Nov 2011
GlusterFS HOWTO [1108]
So, I am catching up a bit on the technical documentation. A week taken to play Skyrim combined with various other bit...
02 Nov 2011
Saving your workspace window configuration in Linux [1102]
I am usually working on a good half a dozen things at any given time and this means that I usually have a good ten or t...
21 Apr 2010
Linux bulk search and replace
Doing a bulk search and replace across a set of files is actually surprisingly easy. sed is the key. It has a flag - i ...
18 Apr 2010
Synergy with Linux Server & Mac Client
I borrowed a mac to try and play with [iPhone](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone) development. I already have a linu...
23 Mar 2009
Vista Guest, Linux Host, VirtualBox, Host Networking - Bridge
One would think that it would be straightforward, work off the bat, or at least have some reasonable documentation. Unf...
04 Mar 2009
Making Twitter Faster
From my perspective, Twitter has a really really interesting technical problem to solve. How to store and retrieve a la...
30 Dec 2008
X11 Remote Applications Responsiveness
As a developer, I use eclipse a lot... We have a powerful server that off which eclipse is run which allows us to keep ...