http://pachikov.com/ablog Some sysadmin's blog about nothing specific Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:34:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So I got a Macbook… and I have to say it is a fine piece of machinery (and the black one also looks nice). Almost everything about it is fantastic. The size of it, the keyboard, wifi and magsafe connector - all exceeded my expectations. Glossy screen - I have ... http://pachikov.com/ablog/posts/2006/06/04/mac-madness/ So I bought this new AOpen Pandora box (yes - a beige box Mac Mini ripoff). I got a Pentium M 1.73GHz and 512Mb of RAM. It comes with a DVD Reader/CDRW and I didn’t buy a harddisk or anything else. My goal was to run a single terminal ... http://pachikov.com/ablog/posts/2006/03/07/terminal-server-for-home-media-pcs/ I am addicted to RAID. If there are 2 disks in a computer - there needs to be at least 1 RAID partition. If there are 2 identical disks - well then it almost begs to be a full RAID1 - grub, root, home, swap. If this box is a ... http://pachikov.com/ablog/posts/2005/08/24/raid-on-a-remote-debian-box/ Who said that Apple’s Intel switch is a slap in the face to IBM?! http://pachikov.com/ablog/posts/2005/08/20/nice-looking-mac/ There has been lots of people reporting OSX running on PC hardware and in VMWare, but it is never enough until you see it for yourself: screenshot. I am not going to say whos fully legal, for-demo-purposes-only, screenshot this is - but it boots, it works (sort of slowly) and it ... http://pachikov.com/ablog/posts/2005/08/15/osx-running-in-vmware/ Just read about this interesting new sport. At first seemed like a joke on some guys’s site (Extreme Ironing) but a quick Google images search turned up a whole lot more: Google Images for EI BBC Article “Extreme ironing is the latest danger sport that combines the thrills of an extreme outdoor activity ... http://pachikov.com/ablog/posts/2005/08/10/extreme-ironing/ This is something that I have read about and thinking about trying out: Bro Intrusion Detection System - Bro Overview Bro is a Unix-based Network Intrusion Detection System (IDS). Bro monitors network traffic and detects intrusion attempts based on the traffic characteristics and content. Bro detects intrusions by comparing network traffic against ... http://pachikov.com/ablog/posts/2005/08/10/bro-intrusion-detection-system/ Recently I stumbled over this company: Blue Security They basically keep track of the spam you forward to them and file complaints on your behalf. I have had it running for 2-3 days now, but I haven’t yet noticed any reduction in the spam that I receive (about 100/day on my ... http://pachikov.com/ablog/posts/2005/07/21/blue-security-antispam/ On the day of my 25th birthday, presumably as a present to me, NASA decided to launch the Discovery Shuttle. While I am very happy for such a wonderful present, I read something in their report that didn’t make much sense: “Shuttle engineers investigating the anomaly believe that electromagnetic interference ... http://pachikov.com/ablog/posts/2005/07/21/discovery/ People ask me all the time what the hell is ‘magic tar’ and why should anyone use it. I learned about this from a sys-admin at the University of Colorodo, Boulder - Andrew Scrivner - and have always been thankful for it. Here is a sample of the command: Magic Tar: tar ... http://pachikov.com/ablog/posts/2005/07/20/magic-tar/ Been a little while that I wanted to have a blog, but never knew if I would post anything useful there… Today - I don’t have an answer to this question, but at least now I have a blog and I have posted something… http://moon.google.com - is pretty sweet… too bad it ... http://pachikov.com/ablog/posts/2005/07/20/some-sort-of-a-blog/