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There were some changes in the latest kernel release (2.6.34) that prevent VMware's VMCI Socket module to compile on Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat).

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Last Sunday (2010/07/04) Debuntu server ran into some issues and got offline for some time.
It appears that one of the Raid disk got almost dead and processes were getting stuck in IOwait state.

Anyway, data was safe and everything could be recovered from the disk.

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Even though I pretty like OpenVPN, there is still some devices that might not support the TUN/TAP driver needed by OpenVPN.

Take IPhones, Android phones for instance, you need to root them in order to get that feature, assuming somebody has already cooked a ROM for your device.

L2TP is quite and old standard that allow setting up VPNs.

On the other end, it does not provide any kind of encryption mechanism, and as such, it is pretty common to get L2TP running over an IPSec link.

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I already spoke about Terminator a while back. Since then,, quite some time has passed and lots of features were added...

In the last 7+ months, cmsj as worked a lot on getting the whole architecture re-implemented in a more object-like architecture which makes the different component of Terminator interact together more naturally.

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If like me you use MPD as a service daemon to listen to music, you might be annoyed anytime GDM start a pulseaudio process which prevents MPD from accessing the sound device.

Typically, the output of ps will produce the following output:

$ ps aux | grep pulse
gdm 1371 0.0 0.4 98180 4776 ? S<sl Jun13 0:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
gdm 1411 0.0 0.2 10748 2968 ? S Jun13 0:00 /usr/lib/pulseaudio/pulse/gconf-helper

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Last time, I showed how to replace PHP's str_replace in C.

The previous code was only replacing one occurrence of substr which might be sufficient in most cases... but will not do the job when the pattern appears more than once within the original string.

This new piece of code will replace ALL occurrences of substring by the replacement pattern.

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