Archive for July, 2009

July 28, 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 ...

July 16, 2009

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 ...

July 15, 2009

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 ...

July 14, 2009

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 ...

July 10, 2009

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 ...

July 8, 2009

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.