If you are going to create the VMFS partition on the some mew local hdd or hardware raid volume, you can get in trouble with a message “Failed to update the disk partition information”. The reason for it is a broken/missing dos label on the device.

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If you get degraded DRBD with log messages like “Split-Brain detected but unresolved, dropping connection!”, you have to manually resolve split brain situation.

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Install everything

  • Install freetds for your distribution, you can find RH packages at atrpms.net.
  • Depending on your distribution you will need to install libtdsodbc
  • Install php odbc extension

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We are going to implement authentication with One-Time-Passwords generated via the HOTP/OATP algoritm(see RFC) with Apache. We will use mod_authn_otp for it.

This example is for Gentoo.

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This article is about implementing One-Time-Password authentication with PAM, so you can use it with ssh and other pam enabled services.

We will use oath-toolkit for it. So install it, gentoo ebuild for it is provided in my overlay.

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If you are going to use CPU frequency scaling on P4 you will probably use p4-clockmod and get in trouble with ondemand governor like me. If you try to switch to the ondemand governor you can see following message in dmesg:

ondemand governor failed, too long transition latency of HW, fallback to performance governor

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Why root? I want to use some advanced features like DroidWall(frontend for iptables), Titanium Backup, OpenVPN, so I need root. With root you can also remove some annoying apps installed by vendor.

I was using Linux for it, but it should work at the same way with Windows.

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Why root? I want to use some advanced features like DroidWall(frontend for iptables), Titanium Backup, OpenVPN, so I need root.

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Why root? I want to use some advanced features like DroidWall(frontend for iptables), Titanium Backup, OpenVPN, so I need root.

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If you are using auto-configuration with IPv6, the last part of your IPv6 address will be usually your MAC address. So its possible to create mobility profiles on the simple way. To prevent this you can activate privacy extensions, documented in RFC3041. After you’ve done it, the last part of your IPv6 address will be random generated

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