The second worst thing about this time of year is the static charges that build up due to the complete lack of humidity. The worst thing about this time of year for a geek is the hardware you kill because […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Disabling a udev rule that calls part of libata and does some other magic seems to prevent the HSM Violation. This is a temporary workaround until the kernel bug is resolved. Infohere. For the record, this is on an Acer […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Netbook, SSD, Error, Violated
A few months ago I was having issues with the keyboard on my Netbook. I found some keys just simply took more pressure than others to register a hit and I found that results of my typing looked like I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve found FireFox3 to be rather slow on mouse and a bit of reading shows that it’s primarily due to how disk i/o heavy FF3 is. SQLite backed this and that, it’s more than the poor little SSD can take. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yesterday I ended up migrating what was left of my colocated machines onto a single VM. Had about 5 minutes notice before I decided to pull the trigger and with that in mind I have to say it went fairly […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
All of which I want to finish, none of which probably will be. I think Ze is right, if you have a neat idea just throw it out there now. To hell with trying to release it when it’s ready […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Years and years ago, when I first started playing with linux and teaching myself networking I built up a PC to use as a router at home. It was based on the family’s old desktop, a Pentium 2 233 w/64 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve got lots to blog about, but I’ve been too busy playing with new toys to get around to it. This is just a quick note for the internets. Running Xen on Debian Etch on a machine with 4gb of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve spent most of the afternoon revamping the mythbox here. I removed myth-backend from neo and installed it on architect, as well as mysql-server to back myth-backend. I’ve installed and configured LIRC and created a .lircrc for the Packard Bell […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For as long as I’ve used Debian and Alsa, I’ve used to alsaconf to configure my soundcard(s). Late last week, I dist-upgrade’d my machine and moved from the 2.6.18 kernel to the 2.6.22 kernel which seemed to improve a number […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The new hardware has been stable in apoc so far. Almost 48 hours solid, which is a fairly big jump from rebooting every 12-16 hours. It’s also a far cry from “proven stable” in my mind though. I think I’m […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today I headed down to the colo after work. I swapped out the mobo, proc, mem, and sata controller in apoc. So far things seem to be a bit more stable. However, I made a number of other tweaks that […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
654Picture of the DAGRNET half-rack. From top to bottom: Cisco 2924XL-EN Custom colour coded patch panel Apoc Tank Dozer APC SU2200RMXL5U 647This is apoc with the new 5 in 3 cage installed. It’s a SNT-3051SATA.
I picked up the 5-in-3 Sata cage this morning at the suppliers, along with a 40pin to 44pin IDE adapter. The adapter is for a data recovery attempt on a laptop drive. I’m going to test a few things with […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
