Archive for the ‘linux’ Category
Monday, March 24th, 2008
I recently got a new laptop for work - the base model Macbook Pro. Slightly unfortunately, I got it about three weeks before the refresh, but I don't really care about the fairly minor changes. The slight CPU speed bump isn't really worth worrying about, although the new penryn based ...
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
I have a server with different sets of RAID1 arrays, across two different sets of disks. The first set of arrays, on the first pair of disks, always starts fine. The second set never starts on boot. I don't reboot this server very often, so it's not often a ...
Posted in MetaNET, linux | 2 Comments »
Thursday, September 20th, 2007
I recently had to add a SCSI tape drive to a Xen Enterprise server, and needed to use BackupExec under one of the Windows domU's as the backup software. Luckily, Greig did this a few months ago already using the iSCSI Enterprise Target, and put his notes up ...
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
As seen here, VMWare is set to slash the pricing for VMWare ESX and VirtualCenter for the SME market - three copies of ESX and a limited copy of VirtualCenter, for the nice round price of $3k US - a significant price cut. This is hot on the heels of ...
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
I was tweaking the UPS rules at a client's site, when I noticed that the base NUT configuration that we use didn't really do a hell of a lot. The example config files had some hints as to what were needed, but unless I missed something fundamental, didn't have the ...
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Saturday, July 21st, 2007
Miro, formerly known as Democracy TV, made its first public release a few days ago. It's available at http://www.getmiro.com/. Miro is like a blog aggregator for video sources such as YouTube and Google Video, as well as provider content such as various news and science tv channels, The Onion.
Installing it ...
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Friday, July 20th, 2007
I keep hitting a bug in make-kpkg when building recent kernels, and I always forget the fix. So, blogging it here for ease of reference
[code] make-kpkg uses version.h to get UTS_RELEASE. UTS_RELEASE has
moved to utsrelease.h.
Right after you get the error, modify
debian/ruleset/misc/version_vars.mk
-UTS_RELEASE_VERSION=$(shell if [ -f include/linux/version.h ]; then \
- ...
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