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Upgrade Debian squeeze to wheezy

Attention this tutorial was written for ARM-Based systems in my case it was a Trim-Slice system, without MBR (without grub). It was a plain Debian without Kernel and boot loader
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Introducing the BeagleBone

The BeagleBone is the low-cost, high-expansion hardware-hacker focused BeagleBoard. It is a bare-bones BeagleBoard that acts as a USB or Ethernet connected expansion.
BeagleBone brings full-featured Linux to places it has never gone before.

Delicious facts about BeagleBone
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Linux Process Control

Last week I bought a new HDD for one friend and I started a rsync process on my tiny home-server to copy some stuff – it was around 190 GB of different stuff.

This command looks very simple and without unnecessary options but my 400 MHz CPU was pretty quick hot and I got a Continue reading ‘Linux Process Control’

Weekend Security Check

Some of my servers providing FTP service and I check every weekend all the uploaded and system files for viruses and rootkits.
If somebody starts a upload, nobody think about potential danger e.g. virus.

You can start all this checks separated or as a script.

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Debian squeeze install OpenVZ

I have a tiny embedded server (acrosser model) Intel Celeron with only 400MHz and 512MB Mem total. Before I upgraded debian to squeeze I used Xen, now its time to use OpenVZ.

Reasons:
- My tiny hardware:)
- Container virtualization – I can use more virtual machines
- Less memory usage – Container cannot boot

OpenVZ kernel and the vzctl and vzquota packages are available in the Debian repositories, so we can install them as follows:
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