Saturday, November 25, 2006

A busy weekend...

I don't expect to be posting very much over the next two days. I have lots of grouting to do in the bathroom and my new laptop is now here waiting for Gentoo to be installed.

6 comments:

  1. Why not try a different distribution like arch just for a laugh?

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  2. simple reason really. Havcing carried out thorough research the 32 bit backward compatability is far superior in Gentoo than it is in any other distro.

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  3. Your a woos. Try something new!

    BTW, have you seen my latest linux tip of the day? Whoops.

    Are you scrapping any old laptops?

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  4. Look, I don't wish to sound rude but I don't want to use Arch. I've read the site, I don't liek the sound of it, also, as I noted above, there is rather poor backward compatiability libraries for 32 bit emulation when running a 64Bit kernel. Linux is about choice at the end of the day, Arch simply doesn't appeal to me because it lacks the control I want that Gentoo can give me.

    As to line counting, errrr....

    grep $searchterm filename | wc -l

    The way we manage files on large scale mailservers in ISP environemnt, say for example, Tiscali, is to rotate and compress. A 1gig raw log file will compress down to next to nothing with gzip, and even less with bzip2.

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  5. Ah well. If I can't get you to try...

    Why sendmail over postfix though?

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  6. postfix can;t cope with massive traffic in those big enviroments. It;s fine for a handful of domains.

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