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This is my (thank you Abel ) current Vagrantfile to quickly create a number of servers with two extra disks and three extra network cards: ...

I (wrongly) assumed that using a .local domain would never bother the root dns servers. It does (about 1500 q/sec). So I read the relevant...

When people ask me: "Do you want coffee or tea?" (*) Then I answer: "Yes." ... and most assume that I want to be fu...

Hello lazyweb, the Vagrantfile below works fine, but can probably be written simpler. I've been struggling to create variables like ...

A lot of muggles are convinced there is some big battle going on between Microsoft and Linux. They are wrong. Truth is that only a minori...

Ik zou een nieuwe laptop willen kopen, graag advies: - moet uiteraard Debian kunnen draaien zonder proprietary binary drivers (dus radeon hd...

An mdadm raid 1 had one disk crash, the other was moved to a new computer (/dev/sdb2). Step 1: Does fdisk see the disk: yes root@debian6...

I needed a regex to append \index{foo} to any occurrence of **foo** so i wrote 's/\*\*\([^*]*\)\*\*/\*\*\1\*\*\\index{\1}/g' and i...

Dear Lazyweb, I've got three SunFire V210 machines and want to set them up for a school. But, I don't have the ALOM password and...

One of my students tried to install Microsoft Exchange 2010 on Samba 4. The error is hilarious: "The operating system version of the ...

Ja het is 1 april, maar toch. ...dan maar zonder kaartje de trein op.

I know, when a service is free one should not complain when this service ends. Google had the option to put open source and open standards...

traceroute to 216.81.59.173 (216.81.59.173), 90 hops max, 60 byte packets  1  192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1)  3.622 ms  4.891 ms  6.368 ms  2  br...

nxcEditor is not in any repositories for Debian or xubuntu (12.10), neither is a recent enough version of gambas3 . To get a recent g...

tmux is now the first command that I type after logging on to a system. I've become a huge fan of it! Some shortcuts: tmux at (to re...

1. Everybody I have ever met agrees that Belgium needs one uniform nationwide voting ballot during national elections, allowing all Belgian...

10 euro for this collection of legacy IT books (picture shows one third of the stack). To be picked up or delivered in Antwerp or Mechelen....

Is this bind usage a good way to block domains on a local network ? root@gwen:/etc/bind# tail -2 named.conf.local zone "facebook.com...

update: I consider the unit bricked and will donate it to an open source enthusiast. I'm trying to make sense of this serial connecti...

The sparc backup server from 2005 was up for a replacement. It was too noisy and too power hungry to keep it running, so it was turned off ...