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AWLL7025 Dual-Band Wireless-N USB in Ubuntu
I recently decided to move my old PC in the garage and run my web sites from there. One big problem though – no cat 5 in the garage. So, I thought lets get a cheap wireless-n USB adapter and … Continue reading
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A Good Primer on apt-get and dpkg
Came across a good primer on using apt-get.
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Ubuntu upgrades
Spent some time upgrading my linux machines today. The Ubuntu network upgrade from 8.04 to 9.04 went smooth on one of the machines. I had to do the intermediate 8.10 first though. On the other machine (Armada M700), it ran … Continue reading
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Monitoring Linux Performance with vmstat
Found a good article on the subject of using vmstat to monitor virtual memory on a linux system. Here’s a link to the man page for vmstat.
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varun.org has a new home
It was high time to retire the nine year old 433 MHz box that was faithfully serving varun.org for all these years. The new “server” is a 1.6 GHz laptop running Ubuntu 8.04. While I was at it, decided to … Continue reading
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Hosting multiple web sites with Apache 2
A good article on virtual hosting with Apache 2 that I used.
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fail2ban: stop those ssh attacks
Thought I’ll start blogging about Linux software that I tinkered around with and found useful. Few months back when I started hosting this site, I noticed my /var/log/auth/auth.info being flooded with entries like: vplinux sshd[3227]: Connection from 218.14.146.205 port 44543 … Continue reading
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