I just upgraded to Firefox 6 on Ubuntu. The new version doesn’t have any major interface changes but is 20% faster than Firefox 5. Startup time has also been improved especially for those like me with a lot of tabs and groups. Firefox 6 uses about 8% less resources than the older version so it […]
Read MoreTo migrate from Virtuozzo VPS to OpenVZ you must “rsync” root area to private area to avoid incompatibility of OpenVZ and Virtuozzo Cache Templates. 1. Create your VPS with id 3 using your desired template (for example) # vzctl create 3 –ostemplate ubuntu-11.04-x86_64 –conf unlimited Creating container private area (ubuntu-11.04-x86_64) Performing postcreate actions Saved parameters […]
Read MoreGraphite is a highly scalable real-time graphing system. We use it to graph all sorts of metrics. Basically, you write an application that collects numeric time-series data that you are interested in graphing, and send it to Graphite’s processing backend, carbon, which stores the data in Graphite’s specialized database. The data can then be visualized […]
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Erik
Friday, August 26, 2011
linux administration - tips, notes and projects
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