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Contents 1 Welcome to the Hivewiki 1.1 Information 1.2 Administration 1.3 Getting Started on the Hivemind Wiki 1.4 Members of the Hivemind 1.5 Contributions 1.5.1 Threads culled from the Hivemind Archives 1.5.2 User Contributions to the Hivewiki 1.5.3 Ways to use or abuse your time: 1.5.4 Technical hacks, hints and help 1.6 honey.hivemind.net 1.6.1 Services available 1.7 Contact Administrators

Welcome to the Hivewiki

Welcome to the Hivewiki. Please follow the links below or in the menu boxes on the side of the page.

Information

1. The Hivewiki
2. The Hivemind Codex
3. The Hivewiki Mailing List
4. The Beginning of the Hivemind (original post)
5. License/Copyright issues on the network
6. [Yale Guide to Netiquette]
7. Local wiki version of the above
8. [Hivemind] on wikipedia

Administration

1. Hivemind Contact details
2. Information about:

• the Hivemind Network
• the Hivemind Administrators
• Forms needed to request services

1. Guides and Info:

• A Primer on Majordomo list management
• Sample co.za DNS records and org.za DNS records
• Admin Notice: Phishing attempt some subscribers have received

Getting Started on the Hivemind Wiki

1. How to get started on the Hivemind wiki
2. Editing guidelines for articles
3. Editing guidelines for archived threads
4. Howto: Add images to a wiki page
5. Howto: Add sound to a wiki page
6. Howto: Add media to a wiki page
7. Howto: Add Artists and Albums to the Music Database
8. Tool: [HTML to Wiki Converter - Tables]
9. Sandbox:Index

Members of the Hivemind

1. Joining the Hivemind
2. Members Pages directory
3. Birthdays on the Hivemind
4. Neo-cons of the 'mind
5. GPG Public Key Archive
6. Hardware to swop or give away
7. See us on frappr
8. The Great Hivemind Googlefight Brawl

Contributions

Threads culled from the Hivemind Archives

• Cameras Again...
• The Hivemind's Little Instruction Book
• One piece of advice
• Once in a Lifetime Opportunity
• Of Gods and Pears
• Revenge of the Pig Children
• They were fired

User Contributions to the Hivewiki

• English Prime
• God is the Machine
• Movies to see before you die
• Things that annoy - a universal sh!tlist
• Countries that should exist
• Books that are worth avoiding reality for
• The Meaning of Liff
• The Great Hivemind Logo shootout
• Bridges of the Future
• Moots
• Lizard Pictures
• Emigrating from South Africa, either temporarily or permanently - some useful tips & considerations (culled from the list)

Ways to use or abuse your time:

• Life Guides
• Time wasters
• Music on the Mind
• Recipes
• Googlisms

Technical hacks, hints and help

• Why servers behind loadbalancers can't see their own virtual IP
• Oh Single Point of Failure (OSPF)
• Useful URLS for people who live on the Internet
• Firefox Tips, Tricks and Extensions
• The Apple Page
• SSH Tunneling: Windows and Putty
• SSH Tunneling: Unix systems
• Wordpress blog setup, mini-HOWTO
• OR Tambo Parking

honey.hivemind.net

The new Hivemind server.

For those really interested, see Honey hardware for a description and reasoning behind the hardware.

Sporting an AMD Sempron(tm) 3000+ 64-bit processor running at 1809.279MHz, 1GB memory. running Debian GNU/Linux stable, kernel 2.6.15-1-amd64-k8. Historical: 4 x 120GB IDE HDD, giving us a 360GB RAID-5 array, 300GB SATA disk for backup purposes.

The disks were upgraded to: 4 x WDC WD3201ABYS-0 SATA disks, 298GB each, specifically designed for RAID purposes. This provides us with two RAID-1 arrays, across which we run RAID-1, giving a total of 575.64GB available as a physical volume for LVM, and the additional required 10GB root partition (RAID-1 across all disks), as well as a 1GB swap partition on each disk (which is, incidentally, not used). The 300GB SATA disk is still used for backup purposes, but now also sports the /tmp partition, and an almost 4GB swap partition. We've also got one spare disk each (Peet and Bretton), prepared to be swapped out at any time. The SATA disks allows us to do a swap-out and RAID rebuild without any downtime. The disks are fitted in a removable cage, to allow for easy swapping.

Services available

• network.hivemind.net
• info.hivemind.net (to be deprecated)
• webmail.hivemind.net

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Contact Administrators

1. Mail Hivemind Admin