Monthly Archives: September 2006

Build your own ISP

September 28, 2006 – 5:57 pm

I’ve finally gotten around to putting up the slides for my Build your own ISP talk I gave at Software Freedom Day and DEBSIG. You can find them on my Presentations page or a the direct link to the PDF here. The slides are fairly sparse, the talk was a bit of a brain dump [...]

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Software Freedom Day – AV and ISPs

September 15, 2006 – 9:41 am

This Saturday is Software Freedom Day, the main Sydney event sponsored by SLUG will be being held at UNSW, more specific details can be found at the Sydney SFD page. As part of the lead up to linux.conf.au 2007, the AV Team is going to be using this day as a trial run to test [...]

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just blame Pia!

September 12, 2006 – 9:02 am

At a couple of linux.conf.au meetings we kept coming across the same recurring theme, everything just seemed to be Pia’s fault So one dark and rainy night justblamepia.com was born. We even get to blame Pia for this post because the site isn’t even ready yet, it is supposed to get a spruce up (I [...]

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linux.conf.au 2007 Technical Guru

September 8, 2006 – 6:49 pm

Most people probably aren’t aware that a few months ago I became Head Technical Guru as part of the seven team organising linux.conf.au 2007. All blame for this shall lie solely with Pia. <Pia> Hey John are you still interested in helping out with the conference? <John> Yeah sure <Pia> Cool. Can you come to [...]

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TCP Window Scaling and kernel 2.6.17+

September 6, 2006 – 1:15 pm

So I was tearing my hair out today. I’d installed Ubuntu onto a new Sun X4200 so that I could migrate Bulletproof’s monitoring system to it. (Note you need to use edgy knot-1 for the SAS drives to be supported). Anyway as I was installing packages I was getting speeds like 10kB/s. Normally I would [...]

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