As the better half was recording far too many of her lovely soap operas and filling up space on the provider’s DVR I’ve had to come up with a solution. Having a digital TV tuner card and a Linux computer that’s always on I configured MythTV to record various things, this dumps them to disk […]
Read More →I currently have a 4 disk raid 5 array that’s just over 50% full so I want to remove one of the drives, there’s a lot of information scattered around on google relating to this and some of it is unfortunately outdated. mdadm now has the option to reduce arrays and remove drives, you just […]
Read More →As I’ve just installed a murmur server for mumble I need to monitor it to make sure it stays running. I’ve been using Nagios for a while and have already done a shell script to monitor MySQL how I wanted. There is already a nagios plugin but it’s a shell script which calls a perl […]
Read More →Well it seems it’s finally time to move my gentoo machine away from “grub legacy” and over to grub2. All was going well following the official instructions until after reboot and running the install to replace the MBR. grub2-install /dev/sda At which point it spat out the error below. /usr/sbin/grub2-bios-setup: warning: your core.img is unusually […]
Read More →For a while now the piratebay has been blocked by various ISPs. Before these blocks were implemented the UK Pirate Party has had a proxy up and running at http://tpb.pirateparty.org.uk/ to enable those censored throughout the world to access the site. Why not join the cause and help the Pirate Party make the world a […]
Read More →So about mid afternoon I got a nagios alert stating that rtcw was down on one of our servers, this is highly unusual and I thought maybe someone had restarted it. Further investigation however proved otherwise, the server was up and running but had full input an output network buffers. I wondered what was going […]
Read More →So this evening I ran “rm *” in the wrong directory, not too bad as my backup was a month old and there’s only a few little changes. After ensuring I’m now getting a nightly backup I decided that I should really have an interactive rm command at night when I can make mistakes. The […]
Read More →Lastnight I switched apache from MPM-prefork to MPM-worker, all worked well. It wasn’t actually all well, I discovered that some 3rd party php code was using mysql_pconnect which wasn’t disconnecting from the server, so a couple of tweaks to my.cnf and all was looking good again. This left me with a problem, was it really […]
Read More →Well here we are a month after Christmas, what’s happened? I suppose quite a bit, I’m getting married in April and that’s now turned into a full time project, everything’s coming together nicely and I wish people would respond a bit quicker as the clock’s now ticking. On a different note, I’d a strange problem […]
Read More →So after I managed to break my HTC magic, I purchased another one from Ebay. After a month it started playing up, it was at this point I realised why it had seemed to be such a bargain. Friday “preveing” I decided to give HTC a call, it turned out they’ll cover it under warranty. […]
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