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Christopher Aker

Finnix LiveCD Recovery Distribution Support

Nov 23, 2005
by Christopher Aker
I’ve added support to the LPM that allows you to utilize Finnix as a recovery/rescue/bootstrap distribution. It occupies none of your disk space, autoconfigures your network interface and swap files, and contains enough admin utilities to get just about anything done. To quote the Finnix website: Finnix is a self-contained, bootable Linux CD distribution (“LiveCD”) […]
Linux
Christopher Aker

25% Additional RAM now Standard on all Packages

Sep 28, 2005
by Christopher Aker
[b]25% Additional RAM now Standard on all Packages[/b] I’ve just completed the upgrade of all existing, and new plans to include an additional 25% more RAM. Linode 64 becomes [b]Linode 80[/b] Linode 96 becomes [b]Linode 120[/b] Linode 128 becomes [b]Linode 160[/b] Linode 192 becomes [b]Linode 240[/b] Linode 256 becomes [b]Linode 320[/b] Check the [url=https://www.linode.com/products/linodes.cfm]products[/url] page […]
Linode
Christopher Aker

Double the Network Transit now Standard on all Packages

Jun 16, 2005
by Christopher Aker
[b]Double Network Transit now Standard on all Packages [/b] Standard plans now include: Linode 64 – 50 GiB/xfer Linode 96 – 76 GiB/xfer Linode 128 – 100 GiB/xfer Linode 192 – 150 GiB/xfer Linode 256 – 200 GiB/xfer Check the [url=https://www.linode.com/products/linodes.cfm]products[/url] page for more information. [b]Retro-active to all Existing Customers NOW[/b] Existing customers should notice […]
Networking
Christopher Aker

Linode Two Year Anniversary and Status Update

Jun 16, 2005
by Christopher Aker
Dear Linode.com Members, Today, June 16th, 2005, is Linode.com’s two year anniversary. This past year has been very successful – Linode subscriptions and the number of hosts online have doubled since this time last year. I hired Linode’s first employee. We’ve continued to improve the service that we offer. Here’s some insight into what we […]
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Christopher Aker

Updated Debian Filesystem to Sarge

Jun 7, 2005
by Christopher Aker
Updated the Debian Distribution to latest stable (Sarge). -Chris
Linux
Christopher Aker

Filesystem Helpers

Apr 22, 2005
by Christopher Aker
New feature in the LPM: Filesystem Helpers [b]What is it?[/b] Currently, the only helper that’s been implemented is “Disable updatedb”, which disables any cron jobs that run the updatedb command. This should help, if not eliminate, the high nightly load averages experienced on the hosts when a number of Linodes run updatedb at the same […]
Linux
Christopher Aker

Updated Gentoo Linux 2005.0 Filesystem

Mar 30, 2005
by Christopher Aker
Brought Gentoo up to date, to 2005.0 profile. Please let me know if I missed anything. -Chris
Linux
Christopher Aker

HTTP-Retrievable Linode Stats (in XML)

Mar 16, 2005
by Christopher Aker
By request of satyap, I’ve extended the [url=https://www.linode.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=776]bw-xml script [/url]to include more data. [code]https://www.linode.com/members/bw/?user=[linodeUsername] https://www.linode.com/members/info/?user=[linodeUsername][/code] Since this is XML, the old /bw/ URL returns the identical data. The http request must come from one of the IPs of [linodeUsername]. There is no access control other than this. If that’s an issue, let me know. Example […]
Linode
Christopher Aker

CentOS 4.0 now available

Mar 14, 2005
by Christopher Aker
CentOS 4.0 now available through the Distro Wizard. [img]https://www.linode.com/images/logos/centoslogo-64.png[/img] “udev” is installed, but won’t run on startup. To enable (if you know what you’re doing), grep for “udev” in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit and uncomment the line. It’s likely that this package can just be removed completely. I also disabled bdb in /etc/my.cnf, which is needed since it […]
Linux
Christopher Aker

Linode hires Michael Greb as Customer Service Engineer

Feb 26, 2005
by Christopher Aker
I am delighted to announce that effective February 27th, [b]Michael Greb[/b] will join Linode.com full time as a [b]Customer Service Engineer[/b]. Michael has more then ten years experience in computers, specifically Linux and supporting large client bases. Michael will share customer service responsibilities, as well as take on server administration and application development duties. Linode.com […]
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Christopher Aker

Ubuntu 4.10 now available

Jan 26, 2005
by Christopher Aker
I’ve create an Ubuntu Linux disk image, available now through the Distro Wizard. [url=http://www.ubuntulinux.org/][img]https://www.linode.com/images/logos/ubuntu_logo.png[/img][/url] [code]adduser alsa-base alsa-utils apt apt-utils aptitude at base-config base-files base-passwd bash bind9-host bsdmainutils bsdutils bzip2 console-common console-data console-tools coreutils cpio cramfsprogs cron dash debconf debconf-i18n debianutils dhcp3-client dhcp3-common diff discover1 discover1-data dmidecode dmsetup dnsutils dosfstools dpkg dselect e2fslibs e2fsprogs ed eject […]
Linux
Christopher Aker

Linode Wiki

Jan 3, 2005
by Christopher Aker
Hello, I’ve had a few requests about a user-managed Wiki for Linode, so here it is: https://www.linode.com/wiki/ The Linode Wiki is still in its infancy right now, but I’m hoping with your contributions it will become a good resource for Linode users and possibly take the place of the dated FAQ off the Support page. […]
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