• Update hostname on RHEL Tue, Nov 15, 2022 Simple steps to update the hostname on your RedHat EL machines.
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• Swapping disk out of LVM volume group Tue, Jul 18, 2017 Working on upgrading my little ITX box to have some larger internal hard drives. Currently it has 2 internal drives(sdb 500G and sda 120G SSD), a USB thumb drive(sdd 16G with / and /boot), and two external USB drives (sde 2TB & sdc 1TB). Purchased a relatively cheap 4TB internal HD and want to swap out the 500GB drive for that.
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• Making your UrbanCode services run automatically on Linux Mon, Jun 8, 2015 Getting UrbanCode products installed on your Linux machines is a pretty straight forward task, one thing that is easy to forget to is to make those services run automatically. This post takes you through the steps needed to make the services automatically start as your infrastructure is restarted.
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• Is the age of virtualisation over Fri, Jul 25, 2014 Ignite presentation delivered at DevOps Days Brisbane 2014, focus here is on the paradigm shift from traditional hosting to sw/hw isolation to virtualization to containers.
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• Red Hat gpointing-settings not saved on logout Fri, Mar 8, 2013 Well now that I have updated my pointing device settings to enable multitouch gestures on my laptop, I have noticed that the settings don’t save when I logout or reboot.
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• Red Hat Linux on my Lenovo W520 brightness control not working Fri, Mar 8, 2013 So now that I have been using Red Hat for a few weeks as my primary desktop, there have been lots of little things that are annoying. Working through a few of them now, one is that putting my laptop to sleep (which works fine out of the box) and…
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• Enabling synaptics multi-touch support in Red Hat 6 Sat, Mar 2, 2013 This is really a function of the touch pad driver, in the case of my Lenovo W520 this is a Synaptics touch pad, see the man page for more gory details. In my case I am running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 and the driver support was added in RHEL…
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• Lenovo W520 on RHEL6 with external vga Sun, Feb 17, 2013 I need to be able to connect and project or share with customers, and when I recently switched my Lenovo W520 to RHEL6 for my desktop I didn’t have the faintest idea that I was giving this up.
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• Eclipse and MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME issues on Linux Thu, Jan 17, 2013 Have run into this in the past and fought through it, ran into it again this week and did some searching to resolve my issues thought I should actually make a note of what I did this time.
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• Silent installation/update of IBM Installation Manager Thu, Mar 29, 2012 The old chicken and egg problem, when you are in a Unix/Linux environment and do not have access to X how can we get our software installed that is bundled with a graphical installer?
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• CentOS 6 install the 32 bit compat libs for IBM stuff Tue, Dec 13, 2011 In order to install many IBM products, we need to install compatability libraries so that everything works as expected.
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• Running WAS 7 and IHS 7 with SSL on OpenSuse 11.x Fri, Sep 23, 2011 Problem running apache when you enable SSL, I noticed an error that is documented here.
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• local LAN mirror for CentOS Mon, Apr 4, 2011 I find myself needing to setup RedHat like environments more and more these days and after install 4, 5, and 6 using CentOS it seems like I could get more economy if I had a simple OS level mirror on my gateway box.
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• Removing silly Windows cruft from perfectly good text files Fri, Apr 1, 2011 Having Linux be my primary desktop environment is not without it’s challenges working in a large corporation of primarily Windows users, but when this even gets into how
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• Installing DB2 9.5 x64 on Ubuntu 9.10... um on second thought 9.04 Thu, Feb 17, 2011 Ok so I posted some steps to get DB2 installed and working on 8.10 a few years ago now… so I am trying to migrate to the current milenium and bring my Ubuntu and DB2 versions up to speed to boot. This one is making me pull my hair out…
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• Compiling the BuildForge source agent on Suse 11 x64 Tue, Dec 21, 2010 Install pam-devel try and start xinetd, if it fails you will need to comment out some lines in the generated install script to force it through.
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• WebSphere and RQM on Suse ES 11 x64 Tue, Dec 21, 2010 Both installs are pretty straight forward, but if you are using the default ulimits you will run into a problem for an application server with the isclite and query applications deployed as well. You will see an Exception for java.io.
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• AT&T VPN client on RHEL5 Fri, Oct 15, 2010 Get the latest agnclient rpm from AT&T.
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• VMWare server, Ubuntu, and Firefox sitting in a tree.. Sat, Jul 24, 2010 Well if only they were getting along then I would not have this problem… did some upgrades and voila! I can’t get access to the vm web console, here are a few errors that I was seeing.
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• Getting my little Apple keyboard to not suck at life with Ubuntu Thu, Apr 8, 2010 Good news is that many of the old issues that happened with older versions of Ubuntu are fixed. But my wishlist keeps getting bigger for this little beast. Here is what I set out to do…
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• Setting up a new Ubuntu 9.10 x64 VM Tue, Feb 9, 2010 Quick guide notes to installing VMWare tools on Ubuntu 9.10 x64.
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• Getting rid of some old crappy data... Tue, Jan 26, 2010 So I was thinking I have entirely too much garbage laying around my house, so I started with what’s near and dear to my heart, my tech. First things first, what is worth selling and what is easier to just toss and be done with. First things first, what data…
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• Chew up your images to more manageable sizes Tue, Sep 1, 2009 Using ImageMagick and utilities to creating web friendly sizes for your images.
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• Making screen work for you Sat, Jan 3, 2009 My favorite GNU utility to multiplexing your terminal sessions.
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• but Ubuntu 8.10 and DB2 9.5 are so nice together Mon, Dec 29, 2008 So I have to install the two together for some testing, the first problem is discovered upon running the pre-requisite check failing with libst5++ missing, a quick search and we find the required packages, once you have these the install should go just fine. [code] user@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install -y…
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• Bash hates people who use spaces Sat, Apr 26, 2008 Ok so I have lots of files… I can’t be responsible for keeping weird characters and spaces out of all of them can I? So what is a space using loser like me to do, well after penance, jump through hoops to make it work. So naively expecting this to work, instead I get this crap. sgw@terd /store/ebooks/pdfs $ for i in `ls ../*.rar`; do echo "$i"; done ../PDF Ebook Guide BSD Hacks 100 .
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• Testing performance of NFS Tue, Nov 27, 2007 Tuning NFS performance really requires that a set of performance baselines to tell if you are doing any good, so that is really where this needs to start. Migrated: from simplelog 2014-07-03 Reference: NFS Testing Tools
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• Configuring Ubuntu on hp ze4600 Sun, Nov 4, 2007 Stupid broadcom networking cards, shit sucks… Migrated: from simplelog 2014-07-03 Reference: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/Ndiswrapper http://i-eat-noobs.blogspot.com/2007/08/get-wireless-working-in-ubuntu-704.html
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