Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Mounting a HP HSV300 SAN lun on Ubuntu linux

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To get your HP HSV300 SAN luns mounted on linux over fiber channel, first use the HP GUI to set up your luns and present them to your host. ...
Saturday, March 20, 2010

DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual USB Tuner Card remote control LIRC config

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The remote for the DViCO Dual USB Tuner appears as part of the USB interface. It looks like this in syslog: input: IR-receiver inside an U...

DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual USB Tuner Card on Linux

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I'm immortalising some old notes here in case others have problems with this card. The driver is in the kernel now, so most of the belo...
Friday, March 19, 2010

HOWTO create an encrypted backup disk with LUKS

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First partition as normal with fdisk. Then create the encrypted header: sudo cryptsetup --verify-passphrase --verbose --hash=sha256 \ --cip...

HOWTO get a disk UUID

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udev now uses disk UUIDs for consistent mounting, so you probably see something like this is /etc/fstab: # <file system> <mount poi...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010

*.microsoft.com sites return empty pages when accessed via squid

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The microsoft.com webserver (which serves msdn.microsoft.com and support.microsoft.com among others) sends back a chunked HTTP request ...
Saturday, March 13, 2010

Managing GPS waypoints on a Garmin Etrex Vista HCx under Linux

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I used to use GPSman for uploading waypoints and downloading tracks to/from my Garmin Etrex Legend. When I moved to the Vista HCx I found ...