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OpenBSD Firewall Cluster
I have been running an OpenBSD firewall cluster on my home network for some time. These two machines use CARP and pfsync to seamlessly fail over interfaces in case of a hardware or software failure. This has been quite convenient, … Continue reading
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Uptime
# uptime 7:02pm up 443 days 3:47, 2 users, load average: 0.01, 0.16, 0.50 Finally I had to reboot to do an OS upgrade. This was a SLES 9 box, 2GB ram, 2 dual core Xeons, 5 72GB SCSI disks. … Continue reading
Pre Google Maps Maps
Google Maps is great. It’s all fancy schmancy, and has it’s own API, and all of that pretty stuff. There are a couple of problems though, you can’t get a super high resolution map, and they don’t work so well … Continue reading
Locales in Ubuntu/Debian for Universe
There is an old skool multi-relational database call Universe, which is now owned by IBM. They have some proprietary java classes that you can use for database access (their own API, not some standard one) called Universe Objects, or uvobjects. … Continue reading
Tomcat, Apache mod_jk and mod_rewrite
I have some tomcat apps with apache 2 in front of them, using mod_jk. Works great. I decided I wanted to use mod_rewrite (shudder) to make some friendlier URL’s, you know instead of /some/path/command?var=value, have /some/path/command/value. Sounds great. Couldn’t get … Continue reading