bornl33t spreading the l33t to you

We are testing out the new murmur server for mumble @ voice.bornl33t.net just use the default port and the same password as the ventrilo server. For those of you with registered users, I don't have a way to migrate you at this time. Though I'm looking into a way to link the drupal users into the mumble user database.

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And I answered average to most of the questions, except a few. I'll let you guess which ones.

I had to re-enable the global password again because random people started abusing the server. I don't pay for it for random people :) So, message me if you need the password or don't have a user account.

Woot!!! storage on the way! the only problem is I think I got a bum drive :( Right now I am DD'ing them all to hopefully catch the bad sectors (that are not repairable).

images here they are a little dark and fuzzy, but I was too excited to wait!

With my ever-growing storage needs at home, I've run into the problem that powering drives with an internal PSU is not only ugly but inefficient and risky. Rather than buy a huge case that has horrid cooling and is very noisy, it would be optimal if I placed these drives outside of their case on their own power. I've done this once before but the 4x SATAII connectors is fugly and difficult to manage. I have finally found a solution however...

Here is the letter I recieved from DarkStar about the ventrilo server. I've already updated DNS to use the new IP as it is online and active. So if you are using the DNS it shouldn't be a problem for you.

This is the email I received from DarkStar about Ventrilo. Please read and upgrade to Ventrilo 3.0!! I will make a copy available on bornl33t later.

Mirrored sed one-liners from http://www.student.northpark.edu/pemente/sed/sed1line.txt

This was too useful to let it fall off the internet should link expire! Great read/reference

Finally, I'm able to get fully gigabit speeds from my linux server to my workstation. I couldn't tell who was the bottle neck before so I tuned them both. Originally, no matter what I did I would cap out at 160 to 320mbps at any point using any TCP or UDP. Ping seemed to work so I know it wasn't a bus issue. Come to find out, a few sysctl and registry hacks got me to 871mbps! No jumbo frames either, as those don't really fix the problem.

In linux I have the following in my sysctl. Keep in mind that this is a Dual Xeon 2.0Ghz with 1GB ram and a intel gigabit on PCI-X.

sysctl.conf

After battling VPN on linux for over a week, I have what I think is the best solution out there for those of you using linux firewalls as your primary home routers. For completeness sake, I'll post what I did to connect my VPNs as tunnels on my linux router instead of using pptp-config or clobbering my default gateway. While this isn't the easiest approach, it is most defiantly the easiest to use when you have more than one PC on the network and your VPN only allows for one login.