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oh Nvidia 6150se how I hate thee

I have been battling with you since I purchased you 4 years ago on a BIOSTAR MCP6P M2+ motherboard. The many dozens of hours of tweaking to keep you and ubuntu playing nicely. The iterative search for the right combination of nvidia drivers each time I changed anything. The final Read more

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oh grub2 how I hate thee

let me count the ways… infinity plus 1) you think you are smart but you are not, infinity plus 2) you do not give the people the power they need to help out when you are not smart — see number 1. I simply wanted to upgrade my 1TB of Read more

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ubuntu 12.04 xcp bare metal recovery via rsnapshot

I’m verifying my backup process via a bare metal recovery to identical hardware so I thought I’d take some notes… I got started on my ubuntu xen xcp/xapi setup with this excellent guide: http://francispereira.com/blog/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-xen-and-xenapi-xcp-on-ubuntu-12-04-and-managing-it-with-xencenter/ Booted a usb based rescue disk to partition my disks the same as oringinal dom0, then Read more

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wordpress rss cache

This is a little off topic but wordpress RSS seems to cache things for 12 hours and nobody seems to have a clue. I set lifetime from 43200 to 3600 in wp-includes/class-feed.php. Which will hopefully let me see the morning news in the morning… As it seems that I have Read more

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ipmitool

stuff to do on a dell server to see what the hardware says… apt-get install ipmitool modprobe ipmi_msghandler modprobe ipmi_devintf modprobe ipmi_si ipmitool sel list You should probably also put those modules into /etc/modules

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perc 5/i

This seems to be the equivalent of a megaraid 8404E from LSI, it’s a great in that it’s compatible with SAS and SATA disks, and is available for cheap on ebay. using it on linux you’ll want to get the megaCLI from LSI and for ubuntu, you’ll want to convert Read more

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qmail on ubuntu

basically the qmail package in ubuntu kinda works, but things are in really unusual places, so for your sanity you should probably hand crank your qmail install. If you don’t, you’ll want to replace the defaults in /var/lib/qmail/aliases for .qmail-default .qmail-postmaster and .qmail-root as the automagic install tries to do Read more

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