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		<title>randomize timestamp in postgresql</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following may be useful for test data or if you need to get data into a table that has a timestamp column included in the primary key requirement.
Create a function that will allow you to specify a random number range (taken from the http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Random_Range):
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION random(numeric, numeric
RETURNS numeric AS $$
SELECT ($1 + [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fixlinux.com/2009/12/21/randomize-timestamp-in-postgresql/</link>
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		<title>Building and Configuring a Central Logging Server with syslog-ng</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.zazzybob.com/syslog_ng.html
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		<link>http://fixlinux.com/2006/09/19/building-and-configuring-a-central-logging-server-with-syslog-ng/</link>
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		<title>End of Life times (Fedora Core 1, 2, Red Hat Linux 7.3, 9)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-legacy-list/2006-July/msg00028.html
The Fedora legacy project has announced that they will discontinue errata updates starting in October.  I have a few clients with servers still running 7.3 and 9.  RHEL or CentOS is the currently the obvious choice to replace these old Red Hat installs.
Red Hat will provide errata for RHEL4 until February 2010 and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fixlinux.com/2006/07/26/end-of-life-times-fedora-core-1-2-red-hat-linux-73-9/</link>
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		<title>Subversion and keyword substitution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year I migrated a large CVS repository over to Subversion.  One of the issues I missed during the migration was that unlike CVS, Subversion did not automatically set new files to expand keywords such as $Id$ to the very useful string:
$Id: MySpecialClass.java 12234 2004-05-21 00:23:08Z derek $
I did some research into the problem [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fixlinux.com/2006/07/24/subversion-and-keyword-substitution/</link>
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		<title>Faster software RAID reconstruction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When creating or reconstructing a Linux software RAID there is a default reconstruction rate at which the RAID will be created.  On RHEL the default max speed at which it will reconstruct the array is 10000 KB/sec.  This setting can easily be adjusted for the impatient among us.
echo -n 500000 > /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_max
The above [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fixlinux.com/2006/07/23/faster-software-raid-reconstruction/</link>
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		<title>Mac OS X System Startup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/osx/arch_startup.html
This page briefly describes the sequence of events that happen when Mac OS X boots.
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		<link>http://fixlinux.com/2006/07/07/mac-os-x-system-startup/</link>
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		<title>Mount a firewire drive at boot on OS X</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I run OS X on my desktop (settle down now, more on this later).
The default behavior of OS X does not mount external drives at boot time.  This is very frustrating.  The following command will configure your mac to mount all connected disks at startup (not just upon a user logging in).
sudo defaults [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fixlinux.com/2006/06/28/mount-a-firewire-drive-at-boot-in-os-x/</link>
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		<title>Is this the Last Day of the Month?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/04062006/
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		<link>http://fixlinux.com/2006/04/12/is-this-the-last-day-of-the-month/</link>
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		<title>Migrate RHEL to CentOS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of you interested in using CentOS instead of RHEL you don&#8217;t need to reinstall.  By following these instructions you will convert an existing RHEL4 server over to CentOS 4:
I downloaded the following files from a CentOS mirror into an empty directory:
centos-release-4-2.1.i386.rpm
centos-yumconf-4-4.3.noarch.rpm
python-elementtree-1.2.6-4.i386.rpm
python-sqlite-1.1.6-1.i386.rpm
python-urlgrabber-2.9.6-2.noarch.rpm
RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4
sqlite-3.2.2-1.i386.rpm
yum-2.4.0-1.centos4.noarch.rpm
Then ran:
rpm &#8211;import RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4
rpm -e &#8211;nodeps redhat-release
rpm -Uvh *.rpm
then
yum upgrade
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		<link>http://fixlinux.com/2006/04/11/migrate-rhel-to-centos/</link>
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		<title>Remote Conversion to RAID-1 for Crazy Sysadmins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my clients purchased a dedicated server with 2 hard drives (very common configuration these days).  Unfortunately their provider can&#8217;t/won&#8217;t configure their server to use software raid. My suggestion was to use the 2 matching drives in a software raid-1 configuration, but I&#8217;ve never remotely setup software raid after a server was already [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fixlinux.com/2006/02/16/remote-conversion-to-raid-1-for-crazy-sysadmins/</link>
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