Category Archives: linux

5 ImageMagick command line examples part 2

By | Published: July 22, 2006
I've put together another 5 ImageMagick command line examples as a followup to part 1. These examples are a little more advanced and include some extra information on techniques.
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Building firefox and mozilla tools on an AMD64

By | Published: July 21, 2006
Sometimes I curse the day I decided to get a 64 bit box. Everything is fine until I want to build something by hand or upgrade something and then if it doesn't just work it is like a maze of problems. Recently I was trying to build firefox from source along with XULRunner so that [...]
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5 ImageMagick command line examples – part 1

By | Published: July 14, 2006
If you have ever wanted to manipulate images under linux you probably have used Gimp. This isn't your only option and if you want to do things from the command line a better option is to use ImageMagick's convert utility. I've put together 5 simple command line examples that I have found useful. This is [...]
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Tape drives are obsolete

By | Published: July 12, 2006
I was reading an article today that asks the question Are Tape Backup systems obsolete? I would say the answer is yes and that it has been that way for some time now. Take google who build thier own commodity hardware. How would they ever back up so much data? Why would they even try? [...]
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Sun ZFS and some big hardware

By | Published: July 11, 2006
This is one large set of disks to have in only 4u of space. And to top it off the thing has 4 cores. I love commodity hardware and sun has been rolling out some nice commodity hardware these days. The price for some of the equipment has started to catch my eye now. I [...]
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Upgrade FC4 to FC5 with yum

By | Published: June 15, 2006
I recently upgraded a bunch of FC4 (a few FC3) installs to FC5 using yum. It has been a long time since I've tried doing an OS upgrade like this because it used to be pretty painful. I was surprised at how easy it is to do now. There are a few issues to get [...]
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How to build the PHP rrdtool extension by hand

By | Published: May 9, 2006
I think by now most sysadmin types know about rrdtool and the nice graphs it makes. I recently wanted to create some graphs by hand using PHP so I turned to the php-rrdtool extension. I found that it takes a little work to get it to compile but that could be because I'm not constantly [...]
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