Category Archives: Linux

Richard M. Stallman and Chris DiBona Pictures

Posted on 10/29/2005 by Stephen

I’ve uploaded pictures taken by CalLUG (UC Berkeley GNU/Linux Users Group) staff during the Richard M. Stallman and Chris DiBona speeches. Please click on either of the following thumbnails to browse the complete album. Richard M. Stallman Speech Chris DiBona … Continue reading →

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Back in Business

Posted on 10/20/2005 by Stephen

Now that I’ve survived my first wave of midterms, I plan on devoting more time to my extracurricular activities. I’ve noticed that my daily del.icio.us script for WordPress is broken, so I’ll be updating it to work again, and I’ll … Continue reading →

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Chris DiBona Speech

Posted on 10/14/2005 by Stephen

The UC Berkeley Linux Users Group will be hosting a speech by Chris DiBona, Open Source Program Manager for Google and a former editor of Slashdot, on October 17 from 6-8 PM at 306 Soda. As with all CalLUG events, … Continue reading →

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I’m Still Alive!

Posted on 9/25/2005 by Stephen

I think the time gap between this post and the last post is the longest such gap this blog has ever seen. Many things have occurred since the last post, and most of them have been keeping me very busy. … Continue reading →

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Backup A Directory With Email

Posted on 5/7/2005 by Stephen

I wasn’t able to sleep, so I wrote this Perl script to backup a directory and mail yourself a copy. Change the variables in CAPS to suit your needs. It’s best to run this script as a cronjob. Download a … Continue reading →

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Server Tweaking

Posted on 5/2/2005 by Stephen

I’ve just finished some intensive tweaking of the Cold Ray Hosting servers. I was able to reduce the memory used by Apache, our web daemon, and MySQL, our database daemon. By reducing the memory used by each daemon, I was … Continue reading →

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coldray.com’s wiki

Posted on 4/24/2005 by Stephen

Now that all my midterms are over, I’ve been able to dedicate some time to working on my web hosting company, coldray.com. Our system has been up for a few months, and a user-friendly control panel is now undergoing testing. … Continue reading →

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New PGP Key

Posted on 12/3/2004 by Stephen

I’ve created a new PGP key to replace my currently expired key, and I’ve attached the public key block to this message:

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Linux kernel 2.6.9 and bind 9.2.4

Posted on 11/17/2004 by Stephen

After upgrading my Linode to Linux kernel 2.6.9 for the file-system access control lists, my bind 9.2.4 DNS server has become very unstable. The daemon will run perfectly for a few hours, but will suddenly begin consuming all the CPU. … Continue reading →

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So What Else Do I Do?

Posted on 9/19/2004 by Stephen

During the weekends, when I have some free time, I’ve been (besides studying and sleeping): Developing my ISP – pluto.betanegative.com went active last week (since renamed to mars.coldray.com). We’re currently hosted at ThePlanet with a modest amount of disk space … Continue reading →

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