I was not able to get the touchpad working using any of the typical solutions. What I found was disabling i2c_hid fixed the issue, but doing the actual disabling didn’t work. Adding an option in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf did not work. The real trick for this system was to add a kernel […]
(Wow, 1 year to the day from last post. How funny. Been too busy this last year to write up anything!) These tips are only based on issues I’ve run into on my development server. Â Currently we have a MySQL 5.5.x Ubuntu standard package running in production on Ubuntu 12.04. […]
The below info is only super quick notes during a clone I ran recently, this is not a complete HOW-TO!! My preference is to use LVM snapshot backups using fsarchiver. I typically have a layout like so: /dev/md0 – /boot /dev/md1 – LVM PV LVM: /dev/vg1/root – root /dev/vg1/home /dev/vg1/tmp […]
I haven’t tested mounting just the vmdk image, wasn’t sure if that would work, so I just ran the conversion first to raw img file. I don’t really need to regularly, but I wanted to convert an old vmdk virtual disk to a ZFS file system with NTFS on it […]
I was having some major issues while attempting to run Zend Framework 2 on Lighttpd because my rewrite rules were not as easy to create as Apache. Â Actually, I can’t say they are harder, just way different. Â Here’s what seems to be working now though: url.rewrite-if-not-file = ( “/(.*)$” […]
Recently I ran into a problem booting my root ZFS mirror. Couldn’t get it to load, and only saw blinking cursor or blank screens. Grub could see the FS though! Â I suspect I had a corrupted or out-of-sync zpool.cache file. Don’t ask me how that can happen, because the whole […]
Just ran into this quick blurb… zfs set com.sun:auto-snapshot=false butank/DATA/backups So I have backups running to a secondary storage ZFS pool in my server and today I realized my disk space was consumed by ZFS snapshots. Â I thought, there’s no way even my backups are using that much data, even […]
Just ran into this solution which works pretty good. Â I first found that I could create an ISO image from my CD disc by using cat, like so: cat /dev/sr0 > /path/to/new.iso However, using the “right tool for the job” we can use the “readom” command line tool. According to […]
Recently I upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04. We had UnixODBC running fine in 10.04, but something changed because the odbc drivers couldn’t be found. Â I got an error while running isql: isql -v gregtest [01000][unixODBC][Driver Manager]Can’t open lib ‘/usr/lib/odbc/libmyodbc.so’ : file not found We also couldn’t run our Acucobol apps anymore […]
Well… not much of a guide really. Â Just a very quick how-to on what I did to get Time Machine on my Macbook Pro with OSX Lion 10.7 to save the backup data to my Linux server network share using AFP, rather than SMB (Windows Share), a Time Capsule, or […]
Below is a very quick example of what I did to configure a system DSN connection to a Mysql and PostgreSQL database using UnixODBC drivers on Ubuntu Lucid server from command line only. # Do the obvious, install mysql an postgresql first. :) # install unixodbc apt-get install unixodbc […]
I was asked about the resources used on the Dell Inspiron Mini 1012 using either Windows 7, Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid, or JoliCloud operating systems. Â So… here’s what I found… I didn’t do anything fancy, just boot each up and look at their system/task managers. Â The Linux systems have Chromium/Google Chrome […]
Quick note about using chntpw command to reset Windows passwords. Mostly, I just couldn’t remember what the command line program was or the switches. Boot to System Rescue CD. mount the Windows drive RW (mine was RO) cd to the config dir: cd /mnt/sda1/Windows/System32/config Backup your sam,security,system,software (just copy them […]
If you are like me, you don’t have time to run nmap scans and do other network maintenance. Running nmap is one of those really fun and useful tools that are easy to use, but since I rarely use it, I never remember the options. Â Today was one of those […]
I tested Windows 7, Jolicloud, Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick, and Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid on my new Dell Inspiron Mini 10 (1012) Netbook. Â First let me say, Window 7 on this netbook is barely usable. If you wait for the OS to finish booting, which takes at least 5 minutes before all […]
I keep forgetting what to do to add the Firefox 4 beta to my Ubuntu Linux 10.04 Lucid systems. It’s quick and easy, just copy the lines below (one at a time) into Terminal and add the PPA sources to Apt. Then Minefield browser will be installed as the pre-packaged […]
broadcom STA wireless driver “systemerror: installarchives() failed” on Ubuntu Maverick Dell Mini While attempting to Activate the proprietary Broadcom STA Wireless driver in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick, I waited and then recieved the error, “systemerror: installarchives() failed”. I am using a Dell Inspiron Mini 1012. I am also booted into the Live […]
This took a while to solve, its not exactly user-friendly. Â I have a FreeBSD server running VirtualBox virtual machines in headless mode, and I need to do everything using VBoxManage command line. (CLI) Â In one case I wanted to remove the attached DVD ISO image from my machine. They don’t […]
I thought I’d be smart and enable data=journal on my root file system. I know its slower, but I prefer data integrity over speed on this system. Even if its not my main data volume, I like the idea of the whole OS running with the best integrity. So, here’s […]
I found some info on Google searches to get Windows 7 to join a Samba domain controller. I have Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty which runs Samba 3.3.2, which I guess does not work. You need 3.3.4.  Windows 7 needs a registry change: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\LanmanWorkstation\Parameters] “DomainCompatibilityMode”=dword:00000001 “DNSNameResolutionRequired”=dword:00000000 The above need to be added to allow […]
