Squid, Evolution, Perl CPAN, Experimenting with backup

[Steen "Miravlix" Poulsen]

I was fooling around with my squid cache on the home network server and
now I'm seeing a insane speed improvement.

Proxy
statistics                                                                
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Total amount:                                         requests 149536 
Total amount cached:                                  requests 144784 
Request hit rate:                                           %  96.82 
Total Bandwidth:                                        Byte 21930M 
Bandwidth savings:                                      Byte 21456M 
Bandwidth savings in Percent (Byte hit rate):                %  97.84 
Proxy efficiency (HIT [kB/sec] / DIRECT [kB/sec]):     factor 192.42 
Average speed increase:                                   % 3645.38 

Compare it to pre. changes:

Total amount:                                         requests  27768 
Total amount cached:                                  requests   7607 
Request hit rate:                                            %  27.39 
Total Bandwidth:                                          Byte   285M 
Bandwidth savings:                                        Byte 22302K 
Bandwidth savings in Percent (Byte hit rate):               %   7.64 
Proxy efficiency (HIT [kB/sec] / DIRECT [kB/sec]):    factor   2.53 
Average speed increase:                                   %   4.84 

(Thats a good day pre-conf update, used to have negative speed
improvements. :p )

Can't we work on adding some improved pre-made squid example configs? 

I'm pretty sure most people is like me and it takes a huge accident to
configure squid right for us.

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Evolution refuses to add to the address book, If I click the address
book, then add, it works fine, but I can't mark an email address and
quick add it from the mail view pane. It goes through the windows
pretending everything is all right, but nothing happens in the end.

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I totally ruined my Perl subsystem by running a cpan bundle update,
while cpan is nice enough to drop the new stuff in local so I could
erase it, it doesn't seem to be enough to clean up the ubuntu generated
packages. Fx. the SysLog module is dead and no perl software can use
syslog anymore.

Trying to re-install all perl packages doesn't clean things up either.

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Experimenting with backup.

I'm trying to configure a 'experimental system' and a 'hosted system',
so I can experiment on the system where I can stick a disk in it, to fix
things and when the test is completed implement it on the 'hosted
system'.

I obviously need to get /etc into some kind of revision control system
to allow for massive experimentation, without loosing the ability to
undo.

I also need some sane way to replicate the changes made on the
experimental to the hosted, that helps me keep track of things. I can't
make the experimental system a mirror of the hosted, so mirroring /etc
isn't possible.

I was thinking of cvs, with the hosted systems config being a fork of
the experimental ones, should allow me to make changes to either and
merge them back together. Unless someone has a better idea?


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