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OS X Lion driver for Keyspan serial adapters

Lasse Osterild — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 19:26:25 +0000

For those of you who have one of Keyspan’s awesome serial port adapters, and who use it on Mac, there’s now a beta version of their driver for Mac OS X Lion (10.7) Go grab it -> here. For other … Continue reading →

pv – monitor the progress of data through a pipe

Lasse Osterild — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 23:03:32 +0000

As the title says, this tool will let you monitor pipe throughput, something which I find very valuable at times, ie. how fast was my tar or cpio to another host or filesystem, or less useful like how fast does … Continue reading →

Separating a running job from the shell

Lasse Osterild — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:30:03 +0000

There’s a little-known, but oh so useful, bash builtin called disown – We’ve all started a job that ends up taking way longer than anticipated, now you really wish you had backgrounded it to begin with, or had used Screen. … Continue reading →

Ubuntu 10.04 PV DomU on XenServer 5.6

Lasse Osterild — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 09:55:20 +0000

Admittedly, I was a bit disappointed to see XenServer 5.6 without support for Ubuntu, Debian 64-bit and Solaris, I wish they’d at least provide working templates as an unsupported download or something, but they don’t. So, if you want to … Continue reading →

Wiping Transcend V15 USB stick

Lasse Osterild — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:20:49 +0000

Having purchased a Transcend V15 16GB USB stick for a router-on-a-stick project, I was horrified to find out that it came preinstalled with some proprietary Antivirus software which only works under Windows, to make matters worse, the USB stick reports … Continue reading →

Vyatta 6.1 now available

Lasse Osterild — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:32:11 +0000

The good people at Vyatta have announced the immediate availability of Vyatta version 6.1 (VC6.1) Vyatta Version 6.1 Highlights include: IPv6 Ready Vyatta Version 6.1 adds IPv6 BGP, IPv6 DCHP and IPv6 SNMP and this release completed IPv6 Forum IPv6 … Continue reading →

Installing XenServer Linux Guest Support

Lasse Osterild — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:58:39 +0000

It’s happend a number of times that I’ve had to install Citrix XenServer and have not had the Linux Guest Support CD with me, so I’ve later had to install it remotely, which is actually pretty easy. Transfer ISO file … Continue reading →

Parsing Ahsay OBS logfile timestamps

Lasse Osterild — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:41:43 +0000

All Ahsay OBS generated logfile timestamps use milliseconds since Unix epoch on January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT, it’s great for scripting and programming as it’s easy to do date math, but if you want to output a humanly readable date … Continue reading →

Building a 52TB SAS-2 ZFS array

Lasse Osterild — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 10:47:09 +0000

Storage can be very expensive, especially if you want a lot of it, want flexibility and expandability, but it doesn’t have to be! I’m currently in the process of putting together a new storage system, but because we’re strapped for … Continue reading →

Introduction to Vyatta

Lasse Osterild — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 10:35:08 +0000

When you as company are strapped for cash but need a full featured, flexible and redundant firewall/router setup, what do you do? Vyatta! What is Vyatta? It’s best described using Vyatta’s own words, “The free community Vyatta Core software(VC) is … Continue reading →