Short howto on installing NTOP on CentOS.  I'll rewrite this with compiling it as a rpm later.    mkdir /tmp/ntop    cd /tmp/ntop    yum install -y gdbm-devel libpcap-devel zlib-devel rrdtool-devel subversion \    libtool automake autoconf make    svn co https://svn.ntop.org/svn/ntop/trunk/ntop    cd /tmp/ntop/ntop    ./autogen.sh    make;make install;make install-data-as&... (more)

Another excellent read that challenged me to examine how I deal with people everyday and why I treat people the way I do.

http://www.lifereboot.com/2007/10-reasons-it-doesnt-pay-to-be-the-computer-guy/

Absolutely excellent article from what is definitely an absolutely excellent blog/website.

http://www.lifereboot.com/2007/dont-sweat-the-small-stuff/

somebody told me to sudo echo "id:6:initdefault:">/etc/inittab and that it will make ubuntu faster. I was excited and i tried it but now my ubuntu is weird and reboot by itself.

From http://noobfarm.org/viewquote.php?id=1219
Courtesy of http://twitter.com/RackerHacker

In order to find the MAC addresses available on current cards run:

grep -H . /sys/class/net/*/address

Edit:

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth(x)

For a DHCP, on-at-boot card named eth0:

DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
HWADDR=00:E0:4D:0C:6B:32
ONBOOT=yes

Modify the Device name to modify the name you use in scripts and in bash.

Short howto on installing NTOP on CentOS.  I'll rewrite this with compiling it as a rpm later.mkdir /tmp/ntopcd /tmp/ntop yum install -y gdbm-devel libpcap-devel zlib-devel rrdtool-devel subversion \libtool automake autoconf makesvn co https://svn.ntop.org/svn/ntop/trunk/ntopcd /tmp/ntop/ntop./autogen.shmake;make install;make install-data-asuseradd ntop;chown -R ntop:ntop /usr/local/share/ntopmkdir /usr/local/var/ntop/rrdmkdir /usr/local/var/ntop;mkdir /usr/local/var/ntop/rrd/graphicsmkdir ... (more)

Short and sweet.  There's other methods for doing this as well.  Warning:  This isn't an excuse for adding tons of repos.  This simply helps protect the main repos from anything you compile or use rpm to install later.  Safeguards are no excuse for sloppy operations. $ yum install yum-protectbase$ cd /etc/yum.repos.d/nano *insertfilenamehere*.repoAdd protect=1 to any repo that should be protected (each []) and protect=0 to any that don't need to be protected.  In my... (more)

It seems somewhat apt that this is the title of the first post given the name of the blog and all. 

I'm really excited to have a platform to hopefully help others out as they've helped me, as well as journal my experiences with technology, software, hardware, and just generally anything interesting enough to delve into.