new kernel

just upgraded: $ uname -a Linux localhost 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 #1 SMP Thu Mar 8 22:14:23 EST 2007 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

console fonts

this is/was tested on gentoo to change the console font — asumming that you dont have either xdm, gdm, kdm or entrance on startup. sudo vi /etc/conf.d/consolefont just change the CONSOLEFONT= to some other font that is located inside of /usr/share/consolefonts

iostat & awk shortcuts (snippets for solaris)

-bash-3.00$ iostat -x extended device statistics device r/s w/s kr/s kw/s wait actv svc_t %w %b md10 5.3 5.2 331.3 329.9 0.0 0.0 3.5 0 4 md11 5.3 0.0 331.3 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.7 0 0 md12 0.0 5.2 0.0 332.0 0.0 0.0 6.5 0 3 md13 5.2 5.2 329.8 329.8 0.0 0.0 3.4 0 … Read More

using mrtg to monitor iowait on a solaris (10) machine (quick)

just as the name reads – this command, when run with ssh (or any other method of choice) will output just iowait – can be changed to anything else #!/bin/bash OUT=`su – user -c “ssh user@10.13.128.15 \”iostat -Xpnc | tail -n 1 \”” | awk ‘{print $3}’` echo $OUT echo $OUT the reason i used … Read More

synergy & fedora core 4/5 autostart as client

*****this begins synergy from boot up – so all users will have synergy access to other machines***** before running through this – you should do a which synergyc and which killall to make sure that your paths line up with the ones written below also, dont forget to substitute all instances of <server> with the … Read More

synergy & ubuntu 6.06 autostart as client

*****this begins synergy from boot up – so all users will have synergy access to other machines***** before running through this – you should do a which synergyc and which killall to make sure that your paths line up with the ones written below also, dont forget to substitute all instances of <server> with the … Read More

synergy across 3 systems

my setup: +———-+ +———-+ +———-+ | earth | | jupiter | | callisto | | suse | | gentoo | | ubuntu | | 10.0 | | 2006.1 | | 6.06 | +———-+ +———-+ +———-+ jupiter (gentoo) is acting as the synergy server – the other two are clients. here is the client and server … Read More

bootchart and some number

here are some shots of some of my machines running bootchart – as noticed there are some things that have to be changed / fixed / whatever. bootchart of earth (suse 10): bootchart of callisto (ubuntu 6.06 on a sunblade 100) i will be posting the updated ones once the systems are “tweaked” keep in … Read More

ubuntu on sunblade 100

granted its only a 500mhz machine with 512mb ram – its still pretty nice as an internet / mail terminal and fileserver here is my xorg file ubuntu 6.06 dapper dell d1626ht monitor (21″) 1600×1200@85hz Sun PGX64 graphics card Section “Files” FontPath “/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc” FontPath “/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic” FontPath “/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled” FontPath “/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled” FontPath “/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1” FontPath “/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi” FontPath “/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi” … Read More