Category: Linux

YUM sorcery

As a Linux Engineer, every now and again I stumble upon a nugget of glory when looking through the BASH history on one of the machines in the datacentre. Today was one such day. Two of the “Linux Developers” (and I use the term quite loosely) came into the lab and wondered over to my …

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Concept cars and Chromium exploits?

You may ask yourself, “What do those two topics have to do with one another?,” and you’d be completely justified in your confusion. However, they went together in a strange way in my brain. Firstly, let’s get the ‘concept cars’ portion out of the way. There was an article on SlashGear today about the possibility …

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Goodbye Aristotle

Today, I am retiring one of my previous servers, Aristotle. It has been a good machine, but I no longer need it because it has been replaced by a newer machine in a different datacentre. It had a good run of a couple years, with a nice uptime: bsbc-aristotle aristotleadmin # w 18:22:34 up 475 …

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