Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Wireless problems on karmic - no probe response, disassociating

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Adding to the litany of problems I have experienced with Ubuntu Karmic, I have been having terrible wireless problems at home. I'm expe...
Friday, December 18, 2009

Set mp3 track names based on filename

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A quick and dirty script I used to set mp3 track names based on file name for a given directory. Uses python and the id3v2 tagging tool. I...
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....