October 4, 2009

Reserved block space

Normally when a partition fills up, you remove some files, freeing up some space and watch your disk usage drop in df -h The first time recently I ran into a situation where that wasn’t the case. I had filled up my root partition and after removing some files and moving some others to another partition I noticed no change in my output of df -h Applications were crashing since they couldn’t write to the partition but I knew I had removed at least a few GB’s worth of data.

October 1, 2009

Online backup solution for Linux

The past couple of weeks I’ve begun looking into an online backup solution as I start to realize I’d be really really really pissed if something happened to my data. Currently I’m running my desktop in a RAID 1 configuration using dmraid aka fakeraid, under Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04. The reason I ended up having to use fakeraid was because I still dualboot Windows XP 64bit for doing photoshop work and the occasional game play.

September 29, 2009

Commerce Bank’s huge security failure

My checking account is part of Commerce Bank which about a year ago was bought out by TD Bank. Up until this summer their site still worked for all my online banking. The theme had changed on the site but all the same login functionality was there. Then September 20th rolled around and I goto log into my account to check on some things only to find that now is a search engine spam page?

March 2, 2009

Word of advice

Don’t run Windows 2003 on Xen (open source version). That is all. Thank you

February 24, 2009

Command of the Day

ssh-copy-id , I hate myself for only finding out about this command 2 days ago and painlessly copying my ssh key to hosts in such a crappy manual method. I’m embarrassed I didn’t even bother scripting the process before finding out about this command. From man page: ssh-copy-id: install your public key in a remote machine's authorized_keys