Articles tagged ‘administration’

Fun with rrdtool

RRDtool is a graphing tool. It contains tools that allow you to create a thing called a "round-robin database" (hence RRD), update it regularly with fresh data, and plot graphs based on that data. I'm going to give you a little taste of what you can use it for.

Fixing missing public keys during Debian package update

If you get an error message during apt-get update saying you're missing some public keys, here's how to fix it.

aNTG: traffic statistics tool

aNTG is a traffic statistics tool which is very easy to install and use. Perfect for measuring the traffic for your home computer.

How to quickly install an IMAP server with SSL encryption

Quick installation and setup instructions for both an IMAP server with TLS and a client for it.

Internet Explorer vs syn-flooding

How Internet Explorer got choked by some fairly restrictive anti-flooding netfilter rules, while Firefox kept on going; unfortunately, the visitors were mostly using Explorer.

How to prevent installation of package gcc-4.0 on Debian

I run Debian unstable and these past days I’ve been unpleasantly surprised by GCC 4.0 a number of times. It had been introduced in the system automatically by bulk upgrades, but soon problems started arising. One one particular system, more or less everything I compiled issued warnings related to pointer signedness. On my home box I [...]