June 2004 archives

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June 30, 2004 by Sciri

Linux Process Accounting

When installing a fresh copy of Fedora, make sure to select the psacct and sysstat packages and run chkconfig psacct on to enable process accounting. Always a good thing to have snapshots of activity to show which processes and users are sucking up the most system time and bandwidth. Process accounting was invaluable over the [...]

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June 24, 2004 by Sciri

Trunkmonkey.com in the top 100,000!

According to Alexa Traffic Rank, Trunkmonkey.com has shoved its way into the top 100,000 sites on the Web! We debuted on the list today at 71,071. Sure, Alexa’s demographic is Windows users running Alexa Toolbar, but whatever. It still makes me (and my Google AdSense account) feel all warm and fuzzy.

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June 23, 2004 by Sciri

Aw, nuts!

The neighbor’s $300 as-is POS Buick lost its brakes yesterday so, being the good Samaritan, I helped them out with replacing the brake lines and rotors, and supplied a few bottles of street grade brake fluid that have been collecting dust for a few years and did a full bleed for them. But that’s neither [...]

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June 22, 2004 by Sciri

I need a Trailmonkey…

I hopped on the mountain bike last night and did a leisurely 8 miles in Winnekenni Park around Kenoza Lake. It was the first time I’d actually ridden up to the castle and, instead of just bombing back down the access road, I took Castle Trail back down to Dudley Porter Trail. There was quite [...]