Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category

Is GlusterFS any good?..

Posted: 22nd July 2009 by as in Distributed File Systems, Linux

GlusterFS description sounds very promising: easy configurable, fault tolerant distributed file system. It promises petabytes of storage on a single name space on a commodity hardware. It implements mirroring and stripe modes which makes it possible to store big files over a set of smaller storage servers. The question is how easy the system can [...]

Gnome MP3 audio profile

Posted: 16th June 2008 by renumbus in Blogroll, Linux
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To rip to mp3 format I use the following settings in gnome-audio-profiles-properties audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc mode=0 quality=0 vbr=4 vbr-min-bitrate=192 vbr-quality=2 ! xingmux ! id3v2mux Hope it helps.

No /etc/inittab on Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) and later

Posted: 20th April 2008 by renumbus in Blogroll, Linux
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For those who like me can not find /etc/inittab file. Ubuntu does not use System V init process any more to start and stop of the services during startup and shutdown processes. It uses upstart an event-based

VLAN configuration on Fedora Core / Red Hat / CentOS

Posted: 30th January 2008 by renumbus in Blogroll, Linux
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The original article was found on http://www.tummy.com/journals/entries/jafo_20061130_063931 The configuration of VLANs under FC/RHEL/CentOS is something that I always end up looking in the “ifup” script and experimenting around with. This is made worse by there being two different conventions that can be used for the interface naming. Here’s how I set up VLANs. First of [...]

Speed up Firefox on Ubuntu

Posted: 20th October 2007 by renumbus in Blogroll, Linux
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After Ubuntu upgrade I noticed that Firefox become too slow. It seems that IPv6 had been enabled again. If I type #ifconfig it shows ipv6 address on