Recent Writing

Love poorly written, pointless, uninteresting wittering? This is the stuff for you.

It's hardly a first, but I did find some of the information out there a bit spread out. So, just incase I need to go through this again, I figured a 'blog post might be interesting - doubly so as I've not really got anything interesting from work, that I can blog about at the moment!

Following up to yesterday's post on LXC: Linux Containers, I had a quick play with 2 ULA subnets (aka RFC4193 addresses - dont forget that site-local was depreciated) - one subnet was dedicated to the LXC containers, one for my normal LAN. Perhaps unsurprisingly IPv6 appears to work perfectly well in this setup.

I've been toying with migrating my server into a containerized system, and almost bought a new server in preparation to migrate everything across. I'd chosen and tested my solution, OpenVz. All was good with the world. Until I saw that OpenVz was effectively being dropped from Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) and most likely Debian 6.0 (Squeeze).

One point twenty one jiggawatts! Yesterday (March 8, 2010) the OpenSSH project released version 5.4 and naturally will start hitting the various distributions and platforms soon, and again there are some great things to be interested in:

I've been playing with Micromiser for a few days, and wanted to graph what it claims to be saving on one of the servers. Luckily this is pretty easy with Munin (which is already running on the box), since Micromiser logs into syslog occasionally. Below is the plugin I hacked together that looks at syslog and …