I'm trying to set up a union filesystem to serve up a boot image for PXE thin clients. So far I've been completely unsuccessful in anything more that beating my head against my desk. I'll be running it on Debian (lenny) and for now I'm just working...

I have a Qt application I need to run on Mac OS X. It's going to be a "portable" application, as in, download the .app bundle inside a ZIP file and run it. No installs, no admin privileges assumed. Due to the way Mac OS X works, it is possible to take...

Is there an easy way to track people who access files on an NFS share? I'd like to know who's accessed a file, and when. I'm hoping there's a way to get an http style usage log.

Suppose I have a bunch of a particular kind of file with scrambled names (ABCD.jpg CDBA.jpg BBCA.jpg, etc) all from www.website.com/foo/ Suppose then I would like to wget replacements for all of the files. Who knows why? Maybe they're growing mold....

I've got a box running Hardy Heron I've been using as a file server. It's been acting a little flaky lately, and today for some peculiar reason when it reboots the machine seems to just die. I can log in remotely, the shares still work, I just can't...