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Ubuntu Billboard

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on August 3, 2006
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Look at the beautiful Ubuntu Billboard WildBill got a photo of as he was driving by.
Ubuntu Billboard
Pretty neat huh? I’m not a huge Ubuntu fan, but I do appreciate it. If I wasn’t such an avid Slackware user, Ubuntu would be my distro of choice. In fact, I just used the Ubuntu LiveCd yesterday at work to get some needed files off a dying hard drive. Pretty neat, I expect Microsoft billboards, but not Ubuntu. Wonder what it’d take to get a Slackware billboard put up somewhere?

Oh, and as you’d expect, the Ubuntu Blog author is pretty excited about the billboard too.

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Slackware 11 Beta

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on July 31, 2006
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Isn’t it about time for Beta 1 of Slackware 11 to be released? I’d surely think so, especially with all the updates being made to the slackware-current changelog lately. I was thinking that Patrick would take a chance and make 2.6 the default kernel in Slackware 11, I don’t think that’ll happen now. 2.4.32 or 2.4.33 will most likely be the default kernel found in Slackware 11. I say this due to the changes that have been made to the kernel 2.4.32 packages in -current.

I’ll continue waiting patiently for Slackware 11 Beta 1…

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Restoring a Hacked Linux Server

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on July 18, 2006
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This is a great post at MDLog. Marius goes into great detail on how you should respond when you know a linux server has been compromised.

It’s an interesting read if you’ve ever had the opportunity to be the administrator of a linux server. Probably interesting if you haven’t had that opportunity. None of my systems have ever been hacked, and I admin about 5 linux servers both at home and work. I’ve always sort of had a plan of attack though in the event it did happen. And, I’m happy to say, it would look very similar to Marius’s post.

Data Recovery Lost Data? Hard Drive Crashed? Software Corrupted? Wrong choice in data recovery solution or services might mean losing the data forever.

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Looking Ahead: Slackware 11

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on June 13, 2006
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Crossposted from Slackware Blog.

Well, we’re getting closer to a Slackware 11 release. What kind of software goodies can we expect from this release? On May 31st, KDE released KDE 3.5.3, which has since been included in slackware-current. Unless KDE makes another release soon, I expect we’ll see KDE 3.5.3 included in Slackware 11.

Slackware 11 is still using a 2.4 kernel by default, with the 2.6.16.20 kernel in “testing”. Chess Griffin is guessing Slackware 11 will be released on June 25th. I don’t think that’s gonna happen, but Chess made that guess back in May. I am guessing that Slackware 11 will be released around August 11th. I say that because we haven’t even seen Slackware 11 Beta 1 yet.

I would expect to see a 2.6 kernel as the default kernel in Slackware 11. Having a 2.4 kernel as the default is something people like to poke fun at Slackware for. Now that kernel 2.6 has been around for a few years, I expect Patrick will set it as the default. Patrick will make the right decision, as he always has, no matter which kernel he chooses to set as the default.

Other new software that will be included in Slackware 11 is MySQL 5.0, Apache 1.3.36, PHP 4.4.2, Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4, Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.4, and X11 6.9.0. Now, this is software that’s currently included in slackware-current, so the version numbers may change slightly before Slackware 11 is actually released.

So far, it looks like we can expect a nicely polished release of Slackware 11, as usual. I’m just hoping Patrick decides to go with a 2.6 kernel by default.

On a somewhat releated note, this guy here at wordpress.com seems to be addicted to his Slackware box. Apparently it’s caused him to miss a few lunches, he’s having trouble dragging himself away from the beauty that is Slackware.

Somebody should drag me away from my PC. Ever since I installed Slackware on it, I could not get myself to stay away from the damn thing. My eyes are hurting, and my stomach is grumbling from missed lunches.

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New Power Supply Unit for Nightengale

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on April 6, 2006
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One of the main reasons for moving this site to DreamHost was the increasing instability I was experiencing with my server, nightengale. The machine would lock up pretty randomly, with no warning. I’d have to yank the power cord from the back to get it to come back to life.

I noticed the power supply was quite a bit warmer than it should have been. The fan wasn’t spinning at all. The fan was only supposed to spin when it was needed, I never saw it spin. I tore that old PSU apart and the fan was extremely hard to move, and I was using my hand.

After the machine sat dormant for a few days, I decided to hit up Staples and see what they had for power supplies. Luckily they had the one I was wanting, the Antec SP-350.

This new power supply is much quieter than the old one. It’s also a whole hell of a lot cooler to the touch. I’ve also compiled a few kernels with this new PSU and I can’t get the box to freeze. The freezing would usually occur when I was compiling a new kernel or something very CPU intensive for a period of time.

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Apache httpd 2.2.0

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on December 2, 2005
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The Apache httpd server version 2.2.0 has been released. You can see the official announcement in the mailing list archives.

The Apache Software Foundation and The Apache HTTP Server Project are pleased to announce the release of version 2.2.0 of the Apache HTTP Server (”Apache”).

We consider this release to be the best version of Apache available, and encourage users of all prior versions to upgrade.

Apache HTTP Server 2.2.0 is available for download from:
http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi

Apache 2.2 offers numerous enhancements, improvements, and performance boosts over the 2.0 codebase. For an overview of new features introduced since 2.0 please see:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/new_features_2_2.html


The upgrade went very well for me. I was already running 2.0.55 though. The only thing I had to do was recompile PHP, which wasn’t a problem. I haven’t noticed any problems at all so far, as expected.

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