Distcc is a distributed C/C++ compiler. You can easily use a bunch of machines’ power to compile stuff. The setup isn’t bad at all. It’s just a non-root network service.
Gentoo.org has some nice instructions on setting up distcc for builds. Here, we have 2x Pentium 3 machines and 1x dual xeon […]

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Set up a 2.6TB raid5 volume using A5200s and a 2×450mhz E220R. Shared it using samba3. Saw that network copies were horrible to it. This is the output of bonnie++ (a disk benchmark) and then I piped the results to `bon_csv2html’ program (included with the source distribution of bonnie).

You can see that […]

I finally got the FTGL library built. It was quite annoying to do. In the end, I had a libfreetype.a file (looks like an assembly binary) and a libftgl.a file. I added those to the XCode project. Then I double clicked on the target icon to pull up a properties pane […]

/tmp is writable for the apache user. Someone exploited some bad code and uploaded an IRC bot on Aug 09. It’s not running now and we did a test to see if ./mech could be run. It didn’t start.
We fixed the PHPix code to check for system escapable characters. PHPix really […]