TomatoUSB as Internal DNS Server
I just found out TomatoUSB can be used to manage internal DNS. On the Dnsmasq custom configuration add: local-ttl=1 address=/hostname/ipaddress That should have been in the documentation somewhere…
Month: February 2012
Installing CrashPlan on OpenIndiana
CrashPlan is a great way to backup your ZFS server, here’s a quick install recipe for OpenIndiana: Download the Solaris CrashPlan client from here: http://www.crashplan.com/consumer/download.html?os=SunOS Move the file to /var/spook/pkg then run…# sudo pkgadd (follow the prompts, do what’s obvious). Setup Crashplan service:# svccfg import /opt/sfw/crashplan/bin/crashplan.xml# svcadm enable crashplanObviously you’ll want to move the backupArchive … Read more
The Internet Is Down
Some of it anyway… Source: http://www.internetpulse.net/Main.aspx?Metric=PL
Fat Head
Just finished watching Fat Head (watch for free below, via Hulu). A few takeaways: The food pyramids are based on a congressional committee, not scientific research. Eating according to the food pyramid (low fat, high grains) will kill you. Whole grain bread will cause your blood sugar to spike more than eating raw sugar. Eating a lot of grains will … Read more
Why does your computer slow down as it gets older?
One reason I don’t see addressed very often is your drive is too full… Hard drives have a head that is like a needle for records, or a laser for CDs. It has to position itself on a track then wait for the sector with the data you’re after to spin into position. The nature … Read more
Who’s locking up those tables?
Here’s a simple query that reports SQL Server locks along with the program name, host, sql process id, and the user that went off to lunch in the middle of their transaction… select * from sys.dm_tran_locks l join sys.dm_exec_sessions s on l.request_session_id = s.session_id join sys.sysobjects o on l.resource_associated_entity_id = o.id
Crashplan Deduplication slowing you down?
I’ve noticed that Crashplan isn’t saturating my 400kbps uplink (Northland Cable… just barely faster than satellite) even though I’ve given it no upload restrictions… I think the problem is with Crashplan’s De-duplication running too intense of an algorithm for my mere AMD Phenom II black quad core processor to handle efficiently. Setting data de-duplication to minimal allowed … Read more
Crashplan can’t see your ZFS pool on Nexenta? Here’s how to fix it…
NexentaStor 3.1 uses OpenSolaris kernel with Debian userland so neither the Solaris or Linux version of Crashplan works out of the box. But Chris Moates wrote an excellent post (removed link since it’s dead) on getting Crashplan on Nexenta by combining files from the Linux and Solaris version of Crashplan. This works except Crashplan can’t … Read more