A surprisingly simple task presented itself this week. How to make an Apache2 server send its access log files over the network to a centralized syslogd server.  I won’t disappoint by not sharing the details so here we go. On Ubuntu 10.04.

I recently ran into an issue with upgrading Dell PowerEdge servers. Having many old PowerEdge 1750, PowerEdge 2850, PowerEdge 2900, and many others I needed a quick and easy way to update the bios while in Ubuntu and Debian. Official options from Dell consist of: Floppy Image (only you need windows to make the floppy) [...]