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Software RAID 1 Performance on Ubuntu Server 8.04

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

A generous gift was bestowed upon me last week -- Dell's PowerEdge SC420 server. It came with two (2) 80GB hard drives which I have since replaced with two (2) 1TB hard drives. I decided to mirror these drives for the sake of redundancy using Linux's built-in software ...

Install SSH Server on Ubuntu

Saturday, October 25th, 2008

It really couldn't be any easier than this: sudo apt-get install openssh-server You're done. Now you can use ssh to remotely connect to your Ubuntu box. Related posts:Where Is tracert in Ubuntu?Software RAID 1 Performance on Ubuntu Server 8.04Connecting to Microsoft SQL Server with PHP

Where Is tracert in Ubuntu?

Friday, June 20th, 2008

It turns out traceroute (or tracert for Windows users) is not bundled with Ubuntu; you have to manually install it. If you're looking for an alternative, simply use tracepath although it looks like there are some complaints. Apparently tracepath doesn't deal with NAT properly but traceroute does so ...