Monthly Archives: July 2014

Installing EL7 onto EL5 Xen hosts

With RedHat recently releasing RHEL 7 (and CentOS promptly getting their rebuild out the door shortly after), I decided to take the opportunity to start upgrading some of my ageing RHEL/CentOS (EL) systems. My personal co-location server is a trusty … Continue reading

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Rescuing a corrupt tarfile

Having upgraded OS recently, I was using a poor quality sneakernet of free USB sticks to transfer some data from my previous installation. This dodgy process strangely enough managed to result in some data corruption of my .tar.bz2 file, leaving … Continue reading

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2degrees or not 2degrees?

Coming back to New Zealand from Australia, I was faced with needing to pick a telco to use. I’ve used all three New Zealand networks in the past few years (all pre-4G/LTE) and don’t have any particular reason/loyalty to use … Continue reading

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Funny tasting Squid Resolver

Squid is a very popular (and time tested) proxy server, it’s generally the go-to solution for a  proxy server in a *nix environment and is capable of providing general caching proxy services (including transparent) as well as more sophisticated reverse … Continue reading

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Carr Estate

So we bought a house! We’ve just gone unconditional on a beautiful wooden house in Wadestown, just a short hop from Wellington CBD. It’ll be a while before we move in, the settlement date isn’t till mid-September, so plenty of … Continue reading

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