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:

Benedict White said...

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

dizzy said...

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.

Benedict White said...

Your a woos. Try something new!

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

Are you scrapping any old laptops?

dizzy said...

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.

Benedict White said...

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

Why sendmail over postfix though?

dizzy said...

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