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If you’ve ever thought about working with the people & organization who basically eliminated rickets by discovering how to boost and synthesize vitamin D, who took a bunch of spoiled sweet clover...
View ArticleSELinux & Return On Time Invested
I’m a little behind on my reading, but I wanted to address Major Hayden’s blog posts about disabling Security-Enhanced Linux, or SELinux, which brings mandatory access control to Linux. Mandatory...
View ArticleTroubleshooting Puppet PostgreSQL Locale Mismatches
I’ve been doing some work lately with VMware Hyperic Server and Puppet, and I’ve been having issues where the Puppet Labs PostgreSQL module refuses to create a PostgreSQL database for me. I try to call...
View ArticlePerformance Tuning and Configuration Management Go Hand In Hand
This is post #3 in my December 2013 series about Linux Virtual Machine Performance Tuning. For more, please see the tag “Linux VM Performance Tuning.” I’ve really become a fan of configuration...
View ArticleMinimal Kickstart File for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, CentOS 6, Oracle Linux...
This is a helper post in my December 2013 series about Linux Virtual Machine Performance Tuning. For more, please see the tag “Linux VM Performance Tuning.” Here’s a minimal kickstart file for a...
View ArticleThe Best OS Installation Is Minimal
This is post #4 in my December 2013 series about Linux Virtual Machine Performance Tuning. For more, please see the tag “Linux VM Performance Tuning.” In this day & age of virtualization and clouds...
View ArticleGain 30% Linux Disk Performance with noatime, nodiratime, and relatime
This is post #8 in my December 2013 series about Linux Virtual Machine Performance Tuning. For more, please see the tag “Linux VM Performance Tuning.” According to Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux 6 Power...
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