I now have upgraded my Ferrari 4000 to Hardy Heron, and whilst the early alphas were a bit of a disaster (no wireless :(), this past weekends updates have proved most fruitful. Wireless now just works :), my bluetooth mouse works with just some pref settings in the bluetooth preferences panel, and the ATI driver …
After installing Debian 4.0 aka Etch, I configured Samba to point at my domain controller for authentication, and restarted it. Then I head over to my Windows XP box and attempted to access the shares, nada 🙁 So I googled, and googled, and eventually came across a post indicating that winbind was preventing Samba from …
I have replaced my old Athlon64 3000+ server box, with an AMD Athlon64 X2 4600+, with 4G OCZ RAM, and 6x500G WD SATA drives in a RAID6 configuration. The old server had been running Mandriva 2006.0 since sometime in late 2005. I never moved it to Mandriva 2007.0, mainly because after testing it I decided …
Newer Linux distros mount your volumes by UUID rather than using the device node, but what happens when you replace a disk, and you get the dreaded “Cannot find target volume” message. Then you need to update your /etc/fstab with the new volume id. To get this info use the vol_Id command. eg. vol_id /dev/sdc1 …
I recently installed Ubuntu 6.10 as a server box for a friend. I installed Zimbra as the mail system, very nice, easy install, and admin ui. Unfortunately I was perplexed by a number of issues. 1. Cron jobs were not being run2. When I ran anacron manually it didn’t mail any output. Well the solution …
If you’re an old hack like me you may well look back with fond memories of the Borland Turbo line of tools. For me it was Turbo Pascal, then Turbo C, and later Turbo C++ that were my development environments of choice for many years. Well they are at it again, and now you can …
After much deliberation I finally decided to purchase an external hard drive to provide for a complete backup solution for my server. I finally decided on the Western Digital 500GB MyBook Essential. I duly brought it home and connected it to my Linux server (Mandriva 2006.0), but after initially recognising the drive it basically produced …
A recent post on the ILUG got me thinking again about the 64 -vs- 32 bit editions of Linux, and so I’m gonna do some more testing. My last test revealed that on a 64bit AMD box, code compiled with GCC actually suffered a performance degradation when using 32bit integers in 64bit mode. I’ve got …