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If you want to try out some cluster configurations, VMWare server has a nice feature where you can share a vmdk between more than one VM, and since it support SCSI persistent reservations, you can truly simulate a real cluster. I have used this to deploy Redhat Cluster server as a test environment.

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After installing a new Gentoo server running rrdtool-1.3.8 and munin-1.3.4 I received many mails from munin's cronjob, complaining the following
(process:22748): Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string passed to pango_layout_set_text()

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HAVP (HTTP AntiVirus proxy) is a proxy with an anti-virus filter. It does not cache or filter content, but is scanning the complete http traffic for viruses or malicious content. It's amining to stop dialers or browser exploits and features Continuous and non-blocking downloads, Smooth scanning of dynamic and password protected homepages

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date: 06/23/2006

I've got a PC Engines WRAP.1E and a 32mb compact flash card, and I wanted Gentoo on it to be used and abused as a home router / firewall appliance. For this purpose some nice projects are available, like Gentoo Network Appliance (GNAP) for example. An other nice project is Soentoo although it's aiming for Soekris boards it works on WRAP since the hardware is similar. If you want the benefit of a nice webgui for your router check out M0n0wall or pfSense both FreeBSD based firewall distributions. First I started using the WRAP with M0n0wall but I don't need the webgui and the other solutions available didn't satisfy me.

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