Bonding multiple interfaces together is kind of a pain. After trial and error, I got trunking working between Debian Squeeze and a switch with LACP support.

When you base your decision to buy a game, in this case Battlefield Bad Company 2, on a question such as this, it’s a sure sign of failure. Pfheww… I was worried there for a minute. Call of Duty could have started a bad trend in FPS gaming on the PC. But alas, Battlefield is better than COD on so many levels.

dd and netcat on one end, netcat and dd on the other. so simple, it’s like magic.

If you’re behind a proxy and you run that, you’ll get something like “the other end hung up” or “Cannot get remote repository information” because git is trying to connect using port 9418 by default. I found a few sites saying all you need to do is change git to http in the url and it will work, but that did not work for me. But it’s an easy fix. Change git’s http.proxy and you’re done. Here’s how: (replace my proxy host and port 8002 with your own)

Check the current config of a Qlogic HBA easily by looking under proc. I was stumped on one system for a few minutes because I couldnt get to the .conf file or modinfo. All I really wanted to check at the time was that the driver version loaded on each host was the same. Then I was going to find SAN surfer to find more info… I guess you could get most of this info from dmesg | grep qla, or modinfo qla2xip or whatever.