Well I am finally getting round to it recently I decided to upgrade my home office come gaming come home cinema room to try and clean up and hide some of the clutter and geeky stuff that seems to loiter around on my desktop and get in the way most of the time.

Whoa what a nice rack ... ( to rack or not to rack? )
No it's not what you think, Well maybe it's geek p0rn! I have a choice of building in a removable or a fixed racking system but the cost of the removable / rail mounted setups is far to high and could be put to better use elsewhere, so I have chosen to go with a fixed rack mount option 24U depending on space...

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Recent problems with Eircom broadband
The majority of the problem is with the packet loss & QoS ie: not being able to stream a reasonable amount of data.  The first symptoms I began to notice were on Friday 15...

Split a video from x time to y time

-ss start time
-t end time

ffmpeg -i source.avi -ss 00:00:00 -t 00:00:10 output.avi

Split a video keeping original frame rate size but reducing bitrate

DD is an extremly usefull tool for the seasoned and novice sys-admin here are some commands I have found usefull...

Create a file xKb in size containing random data.

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/tmp/my_random.dat bs=1kb count=10...

*Note: Incomplete

Here are some of the options I have found useful / acceptable in a production apache setup, please note I make no guarantee that these settings will work for your setup. that said enjoy your tweaking....

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I decided to test writes to an U.S s3 bucket mounted from an E.U ec2 instance ( ubuntu-9.04 )

dax@iota-tst # time dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/fuses3fs bs=1M count=1024

1024+0 records in

1024+0...