ipfw: install_state: Too many dynamic rules

July 29th, 2007

Trying to keep server live under huge DDoS. After some time following message appeared:
ipfw: install_state: Too many dynamic rules

Problem solved after i change following sysctl value:

net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_max
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PAE and 8GB - page fault

July 13th, 2007

Here is some notes about PAE on FreeBSD and high amount (>4GB) of memory. I have use PAE few times, but only with 4GB of memory. This time i had 8 on production server, so reinstall to amd64 is not option, thats because i choose PAE.

I thought that is trivial task untill i get panic: page fault while booting to new PAE kernel. Here is screenshot:

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Cleaning up after default Ubuntu server installation

June 14th, 2007

Recently I had install Ubuntu 7.04 server edition for testing purposes. And I’m a little disappointed with it. There is a lot of unwanted packages/dependencies in default installation, so I’ve spent some time to clean up it.

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Mounting WebDAV folder as drive in Windows

May 29th, 2007

Recently i have installed WebDAV server for internal company use. All works fine, except mounting WedDAV folder as a drive in WinXP SP2.

For some reason Windows does not send username in HTTP request:
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Dual Monitors HOWTO

April 1st, 2007

Few weeks ago I became owner of new 22 inch monitor Samsung SyncMaster 225BW. I has plan to sell my old 19 inch HP1905, but today i decide to try dual monitor setup on my desktop PC. I’ve spent about 3 hours to get everything work and now I’m fully confident that two monitors are better than one.

There is a lot of guides and a few ways how-to configure multi monitor systems under Linux. Most of time i have try follow guides to get my system working, but reading documentation is always better ;-). Below you can find some tips about dual monitor setup. This post is not complete HOWTO, but maybe you can find some answers

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Forcing Thunderbird to open links in Firefox

March 28th, 2007

If you use Mozilla Thunderbird with KDE you already know that by default Thunderbird open hyperlinks in konqueror. If konqueror your main browser - this post is not for you ;-) Below you can find way how-to force Thunderbird to open hyperlinks in Firefox.

First thing that we need to do is create shell script:
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