I’m a Cub Scout den leader: when my middle son wanted to join I stepped up because there wasn’t anyone else. Our family aren’t religious and we aren’t conservative. So I was nervous. I learned though, that Scouting isn’t all that much about religion and it’s definitely not about sex or gender. Or really even […]
We have a pair of identical computers (Dell R610s) clustered as our Subversion server. The repo administrators began reporting poor performance about six weeks ago. Performance like this: a directory listing (ls -l) sometimes takes over 30 seconds to return. That’s just annoying, but it’s indicative of an underlying problem which is causing very, very […]
All of redhat derived systems I’ve ever used store network configuration in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts and use the ifup and ifdown commands to start and stop interfaces. Fine. I can’t tell you how many times over the years, though, I’ve tried to look up the options I can put in those files. I’ve never found anything in […]