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active-backup is active/backup .. requires ISL for HA and so on .. but broadcast.. yes .. that sends the packets twice (thrice etc.), eachfor and through every slave.. so theoretically the performance is thesame as if it was on a single link. practically there is some minoroverhead since the HW needs to queue the packet…
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On my D630 and Dell D-Port Replicator running OEL5U2 I cannot get any sound from the jack on the port replicator. Thanks to http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2218245#post2218245 below is the way to get it running: In the volume control, under the switches tab, enable IEC958. If theswitch isn’t there, unhide it from within the preferences menu. You may…
I have been playing with this for some time .. Below are patches over Cisco VPN client 4.8 rev 490 some are compiled from around and some are my own ports (especially for 2.6.24+ ): For 2.6.18 based kernels (OEL/RHEL/CentOS 5), download and apply vpnclient-4.8-2.6.18-XceptN.patch on your vpnclient build directory. e.g.: # wget -q http://xceptn.com/patches/vpnclient/vpnclient-4.8-2.6.18-XceptN.patch…
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For especially Firefox 3.0 (beta) be sure that your xulrunner packageis intact.. Otherwise firefox will not work at all / or at leastappropriately.
Although this good looking, nice PDA phone run Linux OS, the sync SW (PhoneTools) does not seem to be available for linux. I now have the idea of MultiSync (http://multisync.sourceforge.net/)with evolution and syncml plugins .. I need to have a local USB networksetup and that should work … The local USB works nice but well…
It is really nice to read “Understanding the Linux Kernel” by Bovet & Cesati (O’Reilly).. Strongly advised..
The vm.swappiness parameter for Linux 2.6 kernels is based on a scalefrom 0 to 100. The default is 60 and it is known to serve Oracle RDBMSrelated workloads statistically the best. The swappiness definedby this parameter, is for a raw and general priority paging. This isabout prioritizing the page-out of pages from anonymous vs. file-backedmemory….
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If there is the configure script: ./configure make && sudo make install If there is autogen.sh: ./autogen.sh make && sudo make install