Configuring Varnish

“An excellent book!”             — Paul Wilmott Principles of quantitative development

At $WORK I’m currently working on deploying a pool of Varnish servers to sit in front of some Apache servers running Pressflow. On our current infrastructure we’ve been running Squid for the past few years with very good success , minus a hiccup . . . → Read More: Configuring Varnish

Thinkpad Trackpoint sensitivity on Ubuntu

A while back I found some notes on configuring the sensitivity of my trackpoint on my Thinkpad T43 and took the time to tweak the values to get it just right. The commands were

/bin/echo -n 171 > /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/serio2/sensitivity /bin/echo -n 119 > /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/serio2/speed

In order to keep those values the same on reboot, . . . → Read More: Thinkpad Trackpoint sensitivity on Ubuntu

Check for missing reverse DNS entries on network

A quick way to check your network for IPs missing reverse DNS entries….

nmap -PE -sP 10.0.0.0/24 | awk ‘{if ($2 ~ /^[[:digit:]]/ ) print $2}’

Support for authorized-keys.d/

Why is there no subdir inside .ssh called authorized-keys.d where I can just throw my ssh keys and easily manage them by file name instead of having to edit the authorized-keys(2) file?

I need to do some googling on this , a quick search yields this debian bug report on wishing for support for . . . → Read More: Support for authorized-keys.d/

Windows 7 64bit + iPhone sync

I somehow attract issues whenever I build a new computer or do a fresh installation on my desktop.  I currently dual boot between Windows XP 64bit and  Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) which has served me well the last 3 years.  My current setup is running atop a fakeraid mirror which at the time, was a . . . → Read More: Windows 7 64bit + iPhone sync