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MySQL Replication
I’m about done with my computer shuffling which I started a month or so ago. I have a 300g drive at work and a 120g drive at home. The idea is to replicate stuff like the MP3 collection, photos, system backups, etc. in both places, to guard against losing data to a disk crash. The…
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Whew… what a day
Thursday was quite the day of triumphs and tribulations. It all started out with a successful swap-out of my home Linux server. It had been running on an old, trusty-but-tired Dell P2-300mhz, and I upgraded it to a slightly-less-old Dell P3-450mhz (Linux is far from perfect, but it truly shines at getting new life out…
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Hump Day Ramblings
I accidentally shut down my X server yesterday before I left work, so I took the opportunity to install the custom nVidia driver on my X desktop. And I must say, the proprietary driver is much nicer than the nv driver that comes with X.org. Someone at nVidia has put a lot of work into…
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Success with Dell widescreen monitor and X.Org
What a difference a video card makes… A couple months back I tried getting a Dell 2007WFP working with X, using the Intel graphics controller built into my motherboard. I didn’t have much luck. Well, now I have a new video card, with an nVidia GeForce MX 4400 chipset. And, all I had to do…
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Crash.
Well, the hard drive in sonata, my desktop machine at work, is dying a slow death. I saw the writing on the wall a few months ago, and now it’s finally biting the big one. I’m typing on the box now, but it’s slowly getting wonkier and wonkier as it churns out ever more i/o…
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FP using new concerto
I’ve got my “new” P3-750 box booted up as concerto.ucs.umbc.edu. This post will hopefully confirm that b2evolution is working right. Things are looking pretty good. My calendar and photo album appear to be working. I set up my Oracle Calendar download stuff and it looks good. The RRBC mailing list is back up and running.…
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sshdfilter config
I’m beginning to think I need to set up a Wiki for this stuff.. but later. Trying to get the sshdfilter stuff up and running on my new Debian box, and of course I didn’t document the process when I did it on 3 previous machines awhile back, so here goes. Install sshdfilter script in…
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Reinstalling ‘grub’ boot loader
OK. Documenting this here for the next time I have to do this. I’m working on setting up a computer that dual-boots into Linux and XP. Rule 1: Always put Windows on the first primary partition on the drive. Linux can go pretty much anywhere else. Rule 2: Always install Windows first, then Linux, so…
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Lots of fun stuff
A smorgasbord of various topics today. I biked in for the first time since 6/21 today. A week of bad weather at the end of June, followed by a 5-day Independence Day weekend, then more unsettled weather the following week, all combined to keep me off the bike for awhile. Our boiler job starts tomorrow,…
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Dell Widescreen Monitor + Linux: Utter & Complete Frustration
I just wasted an entire day trying to get a new Dell 2007WFP working with my 3-year-old Dell GX270 desktop, which runs Debian. The result: total failure. It works at 1280×1024 (and looks all stretched out), but flatly refuses to work at the monitor’s optimal resolution of 1680×1050. In the xorg.config file, first I tried…