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List all installed RPMs by size

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Brandon — No Comments ↓

rpm -q -a –qf “%10{SIZE}\t%{NAME}\n” | sort -k1,1n

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ipv6 is starting to see some actual usage

Posted on November 12, 2011 by Brandon — No Comments ↓

brandon-mbpro:~ brandon$ host more.net more.net has address 198.209.253.10 more.net has IPv6 address 2610:e0:1:50:198:209:253:168 more.net mail is handled by 5 smtp.more.net. MARK – this is the 1st time I have seen a hostname resolve to an ipv6 address out in the Continue reading ipv6 is starting to see some actual usage→

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ZFS in practice – verifying transparent compression –

Posted on November 5, 2008 by Brandon — 1 Comment ↓

I had read about the transparent compression that zfs offers. I wanted to verify it so I did, and sent my results off. As we all know no experiment is valid unless verifiable. I wanted be sure that the transparent Continue reading ZFS in practice – verifying transparent compression –→

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Stateless Linux How To:

Posted on June 8, 2008 by Brandon — No Comments ↓

Stateless Linux sounds like a great idea for those of us that have many systems with similar configurations to manage. If you have never heard of the idea RTFM. I have stateless linux almost working here at my house. Here Continue reading Stateless Linux How To:→

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Who needs an ipkvm?

Posted on March 26, 2008 by Brandon — No Comments ↓

I figured out how to remotely power cycle the two poweredge 850’s I have remotely. I used dells ipmitool rpms and a little help from the internet. 1. Install the rpms 2. load the needed modules modprobe ipmi_si modprobe ipmi_devintf Continue reading Who needs an ipkvm?→

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I made a liboggz installer for OS 10.5

Posted on March 21, 2008 by Brandon — No Comments ↓

Here. This includes the oggzrip utility. Maybe later I’ll give instructions for compiling things you intend to turn into packages. If I feel like it that is; biatches.

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Go splunk yourself.

Posted on March 3, 2008 by Brandon — 4 Comments ↓

Splunk is google for logfiles. Even the free license is all I would ever need with syslog configured properly on each server.

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Remember to look into latencytop

Posted on January 23, 2008 by Brandon — 12 Comments ↓

It seems like a quick way to diagnose system performance problems. Link.

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Remember to use iperf

Posted on January 8, 2008 by Brandon — No Comments ↓

To measure bandwidth between two points. Link.

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How to make a backup + perform a search and replace on multiple files.

Posted on December 13, 2007 by Brandon — No Comments ↓

Using perl of coarse. It took me a second to get this to work; but its pretty easy: perl  -pi.bak -e ‘s/string1/string2/g’

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