Archive for March, 2008
Monday, March 31st, 2008
Yes, it's a bit juvenile, but I had a sudden urge to know what was at the coolest IP address on the Internet: 69.69.69.69
wg@wg-laptop:~$ host 69.69.69.69
69.69.69.69.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer the-coolest-ip-on-the-net.com.
I shouldn't have asked :). It appears to be owned by "Embarq Services". Perhaps equally as cool is 42.42.42.42, but that ...
Posted in Humour, Internet | No Comments »
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
For those of us early adopters (well, it's not so early any more...) who have jumped on the IPv6 train, Planet SysAdmin is now available via IPv6! Thanks go to SixXS for providing the tunnel, although it would have been nicer if my provider was able to give me native ...
Posted in IPv6, Planet SysAdmin, Blogging, Internet | 1 Comment »
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
I have just installed Cacti on a new FreeBSD 6.3 machine that I've been playing with, and the latest version from ports seems to be broken, displaying the error "Invalid PHP_SELF Path" when I browse to it with a web browser.
A Google search reveals that it seems to be a ...
Posted in Cacti/RRDTool, Software, Operating Systems, FreeBSD | No Comments »
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
I needed to read data from a USB connected hard disk formatted as UFS by FreeBSD 6.x on an Ubuntu Linux system. As it turns out, it was easier than I expected, as Ubuntu (well, Ubuntu Server at least) has built in read-only support for UFS file systems.
$ dmesg ...
Posted in Tips and Tricks, File Systems, Ubuntu, Linux, Operating Systems, FreeBSD | No Comments »
