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On my day to day work sometimes I have to discover what request are really pushed to my web servers without digging into access logs. So I found some handy tools.

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Easy to find out just try to download one of the free evaluation copy of RHEL.  I’m definitely not ready:

We noticed that your Red Hat Login uses a personal email address. We’re sorry, but users must have an enterprise or business email address to obtain product evaluations.

Proof of the absurd.

Pretty simple task get information about particular system, answer read documentation about it. But what if there is no documentation or it’s outdated. One of the solution is to write down some outputs of basic commands, the second solution is to use dedicated software.

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Paying for subscription or doing on your own ? Choosing the second way you probably take into consideration: CentOS or Scientific Linux, but nowadays we have another player: Oracle Linux.

We offered both the base distribution release DVDs (OL4, OL5, OL6) and the update releases, such as 5.1, 5.2 etc. this way. Today, in this announcement, we also started to make available the bugfix and security updates released in between these update releases. So the errata streams (both binary and source code) for OL4, 5 and 6 are now free for download and use from http://public-yum.oracle.com. This includes uek and uek2.

(https://blogs.oracle.com/wim/entry/lots_of_goodies)

Oracle Linux is slighty faster than CentOS in developing and in addition it gives you UEK2 kernel with more or less stable btrfs.

I was looking for VPN solution in Windows which gives an easy way to connect without worrying about NAT configuration just like in IPsec or PPTP.  The answer to my question is  SSTP, new version of VPN used in Windows 2008, which encapsulate PPP frames over SSL connection. But all step by step guides howto configure SSTP concentrate on installing this solution in enterprise environments, but I want to setup my connection using i.e. self signed certificate without overhead of   PKI.

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