Archive for 'My setup'
Dropping Xen
Well I’ve had enough of Xen - I’ve recently moved a disk from hdd to hdc and since I referred to it in a xen domain, when I tried to start that domain, it hung for several minutes (other domains also seemed to stop responding for a while) and then failed with:
abridgett@ripley:/var/log/xen$ Error: Device 2081 [...]
Posted: August 16th, 2008 under Linux Rants, My setup.
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bye bye Xen
Well it looks like it’s time to plan a replacement server. My trusty Ideq Biostar which I’ve had since 2004/2005 is still fine, however there are some bugs for which I need to upgrade the kernel and it’s stuck at 2.6.18 since Xen hasn’t been ported to a newer kernel. I’ve backported a [...]
Posted: June 24th, 2008 under My setup.
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IPv6
More geeky stuff, I’m now starting to play with IPv6 (next generation addressing scheme for the Internet) courtesy of SixXS. Nothing is really “live” yet as I need to keep the initial IPv4-IPv6 tunnel up for a week before I have enough credit to request a subnet.
Credit? Yes, SixXS have a really neat [...]
Posted: March 30th, 2008 under Linux, My setup.
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Sharing printers with CUPS
Well now that the wifi is sorted out (ish) for the time being, I’m moving onto printing. Recently both my desktop (at home) and laptop (at work) have started having issues printing - printers seem to accept the request but just ditch it (as if it is incomplete or scrambled).
As part of the diagnosis, [...]
Posted: March 24th, 2008 under Linux, My setup.
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WPA, Xen and other problems
Today I finally encrypted my wi-fi link. It’s always been locked down by MAC address, but that’s pretty weak really.
This unfortunately has been rather involved, firstly the changes to hostap (which I use to turn my wireless card into a wireless hostspot:
# WPA (0×1) and WPA2 (0×2)
wpa=3
wpa_passphrase=not in my blog
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Posted: March 24th, 2008 under Linux, My setup.
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iRiver S10 sorting
Or rather lack of. My shiny new toy has one astoundingly bad bug - it doesn’t sort filenames - at all. So albums often play in a random order - track 4, then track 10, then track 1 (if that’s the order they happen to be in the filesystem).
To be honest I find [...]
Posted: March 15th, 2008 under Life, Life Rants, Linux, My setup.
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By popular demand
My gallery uses a plugin to display EXIF information about the photo (technical details as well as useful stuff like the date the photo was taken). Some friends have said that they find this a bit obtrusive so I’ve hacked in a 2 second delay before it displays the information. If you also use [...]
Posted: February 7th, 2008 under My setup.
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Wordpress updates
A bit of an update on wordpress (now on version 2.3). Raised a bug that it appears to break the website. Fortunately visiting the admin page presents an “upgrade DB” button which works the magic. Bit of a scary moment there (although being the sysadmin that I am I had dumped the [...]
Posted: January 30th, 2008 under Linux, My setup.
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OpenVPN
Next weekend it’s time for another HantsLUG meeting. We have a security theme this month after a poll we did showed that was the preferred topic (thanks to those who took time to vote). I’ve just finished the slides for the OpenVPN talk I’ll be presenting - you can get them in both [...]
Posted: January 26th, 2008 under HantsLUG, Linux, My setup.
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SoundBridge
I’ve been busy setting up a Roku/Pinnacle SoundBridge (the cheap one) as a wireless music player. I’m very impressed with the initial setup:
it scans wi-fi to see if it can see a music server (which it will prefer to use)
failing that it will prompt you
it also supports WEP and WPA encryption
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Posted: December 2nd, 2007 under Life, My setup.
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