Welby McRoberts

WHMCR - Random Mutterings

Linux

2011

Moving part of an lvm vg from one pv to another

21 June 2011·338 words·2 mins

Linux Hardware

Lets say that you’ve got multiple physical volumes (PV) in a Volume Group (VG) and you want to migrate the extents from one PV to another, this can be acomplished with a quick and easy pvmove command.

Dahdi In LXC

18 June 2011·442 words·3 mins

lxc asterisk voip freetdm dahdi freeswitch Linux Telephony Containers

At home we use various VoIP providers to either get free calls to various places (GTalk/GVoice to america for instance) and various other destinations over SIP providers

A quick (and quite unscientific!) break down of Rackspace CloudFiles UK vs Amazon S3 (Ireland)

16 January 2011·703 words·4 mins

cloud s3 swift Linux Projects Software

(Disclaimer – I’m a Rackspace Employee, the postings on this site are my own, may be bias, and don’t necessarily represent Rackspace’s positions, strategies or opinions.

2009

IRSSI Prowl Notifications

9 July 2009·254 words·2 mins

irc irssi Apple iPhone Linux

A quick script to send notifications from IRSSI for privmessages and also for highlights, I’ll put more commentary on later, but for now.

RouterBoard as a Home Router - 7 Months on Part 1

19 June 2009·776 words·4 mins

Linux Mikrotik Router RouterBoard RouterOS Projects Hardware

At the new year I decided that I was fed up with having my main Unix server acting as a Router (amongst other things) and decided to bite the bullet and get a full blown router.

Lighttpd: mod_security via mod_magnet

19 June 2009·554 words·3 mins

Lighttpd Security Linux Webserver

In most large enterprises there is a requirement to comply with various standards.

Issues with OS X 10.5 iTunes 8.1.1 and mt-daapd (aka Firefly Media Server)

25 May 2009·156 words·1 min

Avahi Bonjour Bug Mac Macintosh mt-daapd OSX Rendezvous Apple iTunes Linux media Software

I’ve recently upgraded my iTunes installation on my MacBookPro to 8.