Archive for July, 2009
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
Finally found a solution for a weird problem I've been having lately. After a fresh load of XP, service pack 3, onto a Compaq D510 sff (small form factor) pc, and loading all the compaq patches and drivers, there was an issue where plugging in any usb 2.0 devices ...
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Thursday, July 16th, 2009
While working late, I finally was forced to setup a printer on my "vaiopix" workstation which is a Sony Vaio PCG-FX370 laptop with Knoppix 5.3.1 installed. It uses a parallel connected HP LaserJet 4L printer, which was giving me lots of trouble installing through the print admin panel because ...
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Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
Finally fixed an issue in Request Tracker that has been bugging me. I use the VubuntuS virtual appliance which has a few great tools - one of which is an issues tracking system called Request Tracker. For a long time, in the default page of RT3.4, I've only seen ...
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Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
Well, some more updates on sockso. I have moved it to a host I thought would be perfect, my suse10.2 server which handles my big brother and oracle functions. Its a multi-core physical box - a Compaq DL380. It had been up for over 320 days and ...
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Friday, July 10th, 2009
Well, its official. The server formerly known as "knockso" which was my music server (built a few months back in Feb 2009) is no more. The disk had catasrophic failure. It was an ancient disk anyway - an old (ok, VERY old) 6Gb laptop disk from a ...
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Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
The Sockso music server will be down for a day or two while some issues with slowness are worked out. Also planning to upgrade from version 1.1.7 to the latest version 1.1.8 as well.
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