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Having recently set up a laptop that had been dropped on its screen to use as a headless Linux server (Ubuntu 5.4 – Hoary Hedgehog) I discovered that its CPU was not running to its full potential – the cause was that the funky magic that makes the processor scale back to save power was […]

Download the Solaris Update Connection software from here install it and away you go. This Solaris updater is the easiest method to keep Solaris patched while you are starting out.

I added iprb “8086,1050” iprb “8086,1064” to /etc/driver_aliases and then touch /etc/dhcp.iprb0 touch /etc/hostname.iprb0 followed by shutdown -i6 -g0 -y And I was able to get the Intel 10/100 VE Network Interface (82652 EZ) functioning as it should under solaris. The driver is included with Solaris 10 for x86 but you need to do the […]

While reading my atomic magazine which arrived earlier in the week (which happens to have as its main feature set articles on Windows Vista/Longhorn there was a coverage of the Intel Developer Forum going into details about up and coming chipsets specifically the i945 express chipset which features onboard graphics compatible with the Vistas Windows […]

Oh what fun and joy it was, but the site has now been successfully migrated from the old G3-300 to a shiny Mac Mini (1.42 w/ 1GB RAM) running Mac OS X 10.4 Some things that may help people who follow me in setting something like this up: 1) Migrating databases is icky. But there […]

Solaris 2 FAQ Question 3.4 Having not played with SunOS (Solaris) for a long time, I was fortunate to have the opportunity to once agian refresh my skills with it. But I had forgotten this little gem: SunOS 5.x is delivered with the “automounter” enabled. The automounter is designed for NFS sites, to simplify maintenance […]

Setting up mrtg to monitor the DLink G604T adsl modem/router was a painful excercise. It appears that the correct info in the mrtg.conf file is for nas0, none of the other detected interfaces seem to reflect accurate usage. If its not the SNMP interface 3 for you it might be another one – but it […]

Ubuntu Forums – HOWTO: Autostart Folding at Home at startup Useful page on getting Folding at Home (http://folding.stanford.edu) running on Ubuntu. It works for Hoary as well as Warthog. I really should get off my backside and make a package up.

To install the Java Development Package (1.5.0.x) I did the following. I added multiverse to my repository settings (the following are valid for Internode customers only. deb ftp://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/ubuntu/ubuntu/ hoary main restricted universe multiverse deb-src ftp://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/ubuntu/ubuntu/ hoary main restricted universe multiverse deb ftp://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/ubuntu/ubuntu/ hoary-updates main restricted universe multiverse deb-src ftp://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/ubuntu/ubuntu/ hoary-updates main restricted universe multiverse deb […]

Wanting to prevent directory listings that were enabled on my server I needed to do a good google. The result for prevent apache directory listing or “disable apache directory listing” was that the option Indexes allowed directory listing and placing -Indexes in its placed resolved the issue. M