Thursday, November 26, 2009

Dell NICs still causing problems with incomplete arps

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I ran into the same problem again , this time with a BCM 5708 NIC on a Dell 2RU Poweredge 2950. Exactly the same symptoms: the box makes AR...
Friday, November 13, 2009

Creating an audio CD from mp3 files on linux

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K3b is great for this, you can just start an audio project and drag mp3 files onto it. On ubuntu karmic you will need these packages: k3b a...
Saturday, October 31, 2009

CD ripping (sound-juicer) stuffed in karmic

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My favourite CD ripper 'grip' has disappeared from the repository in ubuntu as of karmic. The built-in is sound-juicer, which sucks...
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Monday, October 19, 2009

Howto install zabbix on ubuntu jaunty

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apt-get install zabbix-server-pgsql Get the auto-generated db password out of /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf and use it when prompted in the...

Zabbix mysql innodb backend shits itself on power outage

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We had a power outage, and the mysql database that backs our zabbix install shat itself. The innodb tables couldn't recover themselves....
Sunday, October 11, 2009

Submitting malware and phishing urls to google safebrowsing and microsoft smartscreen

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To submit dodgy urls, follow these instructions for firefox and these instructions for IE (requires IE 8 to be installed just to submit, t...
Friday, September 25, 2009

Chef - the new puppet?

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I just encountered Chef , which is a 'systems integration framework' like puppet that allows you to manage configuration and much m...