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We’ve tried many of the regular SCSI cards (lots of adaptec cards, mylex), and if they do have something that lets you check the raid status via the command line, it’s a proprietary binary that uses something asinine like shared memory, which will eventually lock up.
The problem is that most of the time when there’s […]

It used to be that gnome-terminal was the best terminal (IMO) because of nice font handling, the control-click opening of URLs, a good termcap for use with screen, etc.
Then at some point (a couple years ago), it started going downhill. The biggest problem is the cut and paste. It often misses line feeds, […]

Sometimes machines will be performing poorly (especially with interactive sessions), and you want to figure out what’s wrong. The general bottlenecks are:
Disk
Network
CPU
Interrupts
FreeBSD has some pretty decent utilities that will let you get some basic information quickly, so you at least know where to start looking for problems.
For instance, for disk stuff you can use […]

For a while I had the regular qwest service of 1.5Mbit down, 976(?)kbit up. This made me pretty happy, I’d never had something as close to symmetric as that, at least not since 28.8 modems.
Then they started having a deal on their “up to 5Mbit” service for $29.99/month for a year. I went […]

Just weeks after they depeered cogent, Level(3) has had what appears to be a complete outage of their network.
Things do go wrong with maintenances, but this was kind of the mother of all outages, at least as far as a single SFI (settlement free interconnect) provider is concerned (SFI is a more accurate title than […]