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September 27th, 2008 by Niels Horn in , |

Checked your /tmp folder lately? You might be surprised how many files there are if you do not clean it on a regular basis. To keep mine tidy, I have a small script called 'cleantmp':#!/bin/bashfind /tmp -atime +5 -exec rm -r {} \;find /var/tmp -type f -atime +30 -exec rm {} \;
Basically it looks for [...]

September 27th, 2008 by Niels Horn in ,

Since I am on the subject of networking in Linux, here is another post about some nice things we can do: shaping our traffic so that we can limit how much of our bandwidth we use for each type of traffic.
Just as a small reminder: I am a long-time Slackware user (since 1996) and I [...]

September 26th, 2008 by Niels Horn in ,

Today I finally managed to use my two ISPs together on my desktop, combining both bandwidths into one big (almost 3Mbit!) pipe.
My setup:

ADSL modem 1Mb down, 320Kb up
GSM modem 2Mb down, 512Kb up

Configuring both at the same time is simple, but then we have two default gateways and our packets always go out through the [...]

September 26th, 2008 by Niels Horn in |

I never wanted to start a blog, for several reasons, but mainly because:

I do not have the time to write regular posts
I really do not have too many interesting facts to share with the world

But it seems that nowadays everyone is blogging all over the world. My wife - who really isn't into computers that [...]

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