Monthly Archives: October 2007

Upgrading an OLD Gentoo Machine.

Posted on October 4, 2007 by Dennis

I’m in the process of re-installing a pretty old machine with the latest Gentoo. I’ve got a shared NFS directory with portage and all my machines are using a packages directory. After one machine builds something, another machine can simply … Continue reading →

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One way to unemerge lots of unneeded packages on Gentoo Linux

Posted on October 3, 2007 by Dennis

As part of a recent project, I had installed a lot of packages on a separate machine to test my configuration. As is common, with Gentoo, you want to run the following before you actually emerge anything: emerge -p <package_name> … Continue reading →

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The Pix xlate command

Posted on October 3, 2007 by Dennis

I’ve recently had cause to change a couple static routings on our Pix 501 Firewall. I’ve done this in the past, but each time, it has resulted in a period of time where the new static mapping doesn’t take effect. … Continue reading →

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Using Linux-HA for High Availability with Gentoo and Linux-VServer

Posted on October 2, 2007 by Dennis

In my production setup, I don’t have a load balancer. This may be changed at some point, assuming that we can find one we like for the price we want to purchase it for, but in the mean time, I’ve … Continue reading →

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My New Bookmark Widget

Posted on October 2, 2007 by Dennis

Ok, I found a widget that could replace the bookmark widget by simply allowing a customizable interface to the wp_list_bookmarks function. This is a highly customizable function that not only lets you grab all the bookmarks, but allows customization of … Continue reading →

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WordPress and Caching

Posted on October 1, 2007 by Dennis

I just installed the plugin wp-cache. I’m not sure why more WordPress users don’t enable this. From the Wp-Cache description: WP-Cache is an extremely efficient WordPress page caching system to make you site much faster and responsive. It works by … Continue reading →

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