Well I just set ventrilo up on my internal dev server. Just trying it out because I've heard other people talk about it and thought I would integrate it better with my system. I'm running Fedora 14 on my server but all of these scripts should work on Fedora 12/14 and RedHat EL 5/6. Untested on the new Fedora 16. Here's the service script.
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You should always stress test a new harddrive when you buy it.

Some people say, "Just hook it up for a few months and keep unimportant data on it. If it breaks in that 1-3 month time then it will be good for 3 or 4 years."

While that metric is okay at best I prefer to take a more systematic approach to it. I want to fill the whole hard drive with random 1 and 0 over a constant and long period of time. I do that because you are stressing the hard drive out...

Today I feel like talking about limiting connections which get made to a server. There are a few ways to do it; some cooler than others. I'd like to feature some open source software while I'm at it.

Today I happened upon this thread which hilariously got closed for good reason. Once you wade through all the crap you'll see some pretty cool posts which explain how to limit incoming connections within a certain time period and other suggestions. I'll point out the most useful related...

I wanted a quick and dirty way to determine server latency on my Kubuntu machine. This just parses simple output from ping and provides only the time values.

Output
You can put as many servers or IPs as you want in the for loop to get a comparison....

I wanted to know the received network usage on a device in kB so this one liner was produced for the desired result.
Press Ctrl+C to stop analyzing the network traffic on that device.

Here's another one liner of me looking through multiple log locations.
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