One day I started having issues with my clients trying to mount or re-mount a NFS share. Here’s what it looked like: On machine 1: $ mount /shared mount: RPC: Program not registered On machine 2: :~$ mount /shared mount to NFS server ‘nfs’ failed: server is down. I have something like /shared as a […]
Well I got hit by this bug and it’s really annoying. On reboot of a Linux box I’m working with I noticed the system clock was majorly skewed. Since I wasn’t running anything really critical, I decided to update the time via ntpdate so all the system clock would ‘right’ itself out. Then I get […]
This time they’re researching…. solar cooled beer! Won’t solve poverty but will solve lots of other problems. Read it yourself. Thanks to Gizmodo for digging this up.
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So I read some articles ( [1], [2], [3]) on a really nice piece of technology called Java Management Extensions (JMX) that allows you to: Watch memory usage of a Java JVM in real time Allows this to be done remotely as well as locally Offers a very nice GUI called JConsole Allows you run […]
I’m trying to get the hang of Eclipse and I always seem to find myself getting annoyed with all the documentation I find for newbies. My goal is the following: Install an Eclipse plugin under Linux Sounds simple, right? Well here are some my system configuration settings that I feel are relevant: I’m running Ubuntu […]
This article is already a week old and probably has been slashdotted, digged, and whatever other verbs comprise the act of many people hitting some news site and all of them simultaneously pummeling the original story site. The small gathering of invitees (of which I’m never one) get together and talk about the paths one […]
I’ve been using Gentoo a bit lately and one thing that is nice is the portage system which tends to configure your systems rather sanely but there always needs to be tweaks… If you install postfix and are using syslog-ng which is the default syslogging tool for Gentoo. You’ll notice all of your postfix messages […]
Seeing something like this when trying to update your Ubuntu box? # sudo apt-get update W: GPG error: http://jp.archive.ubuntu.com breezy-updates Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 40976EAF437D05B5 Ubuntu Archive Automatic Signing Key W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems It is probably related to the following: Synaptic GPG Error […]
The Hardware Recycling Initiative (HRI) is an open source project with the goal to port Linux (or its microcontroller clone – uClinux) into onto publicly available residential router hardware. Small grammar fixes by me. I just read too much grammar damaged Engrish to put up with cutting and pasting that stuff into my own blog […]
Read more here Basically it says their printer drivers only support OS X 10.2 and 10.3 but can’t be bothered to support Tiger. This announcement was back in 2005. It is now the middle of 2006 with no drivers showing up in site. And just for note, the drivers don’t work properly under Tiger. Double-sided […]
A number of D-Link products, so far I have at least identified DI-604, DI-614+, DI-624, DI-754, DI-764, DI-774, DI-784, VDI604 and VDI624, contain a list of NTP servers in their firmware and using some sort of algorithm, they pick one and send packets to it. … The correct way, as I have pointed out to […]
How to get Fluxbox on your Ubuntu install Summary: Current Ubuntu has an ‘ancient’ (Read: I MUST HAVE LATEST AND GREATEST) version of fluxbox You need to install some extra tools (build-essential checkinstall xlibs-dev) for this howto. Checkinstall looks very useful for people who install from source then realize they need to erase it. Do […]
Try dealing with a problem like this. And if you’re wondering. Yes it IS happening to me. And it really is frustrating trying to do anything when you’re drive goes bonkers.
I decided to move my emailing activities from XP to Linux for *mumble mumble* reasons. I thought it would be a rather simple operation of dump the data files in the right place and be done with it but there are some small things to keep in mind when doing the move. Here’s my diary […]