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I've set up a lot of servers using Gentoo lately, so I've collected a few things that I really don't want to be without on a ser...

One great thing about teaching is that as you tell students how to do something, you constantly get to re-evaluate what you did yourself in ...

Good news if you're thinking of taking my compilers course next time I teach it: We have yet another new member in the machine park! Mee...

I finally have distcc and distccd working, so now my ancient PowerPC iMac actually has all its code compiled by a semi-modern dual-core AM...

So when I installed Debian on my MSI Wind Netbook the other day, I was asked whether I wanted to have encrypted LVM2 volumes. I said yes, an...

When I set up a server, I like to move the port for sshd away from 22 to some high location, say 32767. At JHU, however, high ports are bloc...

Don't ask me how I got into looking this stuff up, what matters is that I did look it up... :-D Apparently Johns Hopkins owns somewhere...