Category: Technology

Installing Arch Linux on RAID+LVM

I just installed Arch Linux on a RAID1+LVM, which involved some work. There already is a nice article about it, but I wanted to summarize for myself. Read More »
By halfgaar, 4 months ago, on May 13, 2010, at 18:05 | No comments

Disabling Intellipark on the WD15EARS

I just got two Western Digital 1.5TB WD15EARS disks. This drive has a feature called intellipark, which parks the head after the disk is not used for a while. This is supposedly a power saving feature. But, as someone explains, it can also severely decrease the lifetime of your drive. Read More »
By halfgaar, 4 months ago, on May 13, 2010, at 14:05 | 1 comment

Aihato WordPress development notes

I'm collaborating with YTEC on a new website for Aihato. I've picked WordPress to do most of the heavy lifting for this project. So far, I've spent most of my time on this project to get a good development environment in working order, with WordPress living in its own directory and some deployment recipes managed from a Makefile. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 4 months ago, on May 04, 2010, at 18:05 | 7 comments

Awesome window manager

I'm officially a convert. I finally went from a floating-only window manager to a tiling window manager. And it does floating too! Awesome seems to be everything that Window Maker just couldn't be for me. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 4 months ago, on May 02, 2010, at 21:05 | 1 comment

Upgrading Samba from Lenny-backports

For some reason, after upgrading to the Samba version from Lenny-backports I needed to support Windows 7 profiles, the workstations suffered from severe problems. The entire profile seemed to be read-only, even though they weren't on disk. I couldn't change any setting and reverting profile configuration from backups didn't help. In the end, the only thing that fixed it was recreating the user profile, both server and client side. This was an upgrade from 3.2.5 to 3.4.7. Read More »
By halfgaar, 5 months ago, on March 29, 2010, at 13:03 | No comments

Adding a virtual network interface on Debian

When clustering machines, you make it possible for a failover node to be accessible on the same address as the primary node by having a virtual network interface. In Debian, you can add one like this: Read More »
By halfgaar, 5 months ago, on March 26, 2010, at 17:03 | No comments

Preventing the creation of $RECYCLE.BIN on Samba shares by Windows 7

Windows 7 kept creating a $RECYCLE.BIN dir on the network share. This in itself is merely annoying, but there were also errors resulting from it. Whenever a file would be deleted, this message would appear (translated from dutch): "The recycle bin is damaged, do you want to delete the contents?" Everything froze until that question was answered. Read More »
By halfgaar, 6 months ago, on March 25, 2010, at 14:03 | No comments

MAC address space for Xen

The MAC address space reserved for Xen is 00:16:3e:xx:xx:xx. Source.

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By halfgaar, 6 months ago, on March 24, 2010, at 11:03 | No comments

Show fields in a SSL certificate with openssl

To use OpenSSL to get the certficate information (source): Read More »
By halfgaar, 6 months ago, on March 23, 2010, at 13:03 | No comments

Configuring Thunderbird to have newest mails at the top by default

Thunderbird sorts its mails in such a way that the newest mails are at the bottom of the list by default. You can change it, but you have to change it for each folder separately, which sucks. Read More »
By halfgaar, 6 months ago, on March 22, 2010, at 17:03 | No comments