Category Archives: Unix
Realtec TP-LINK TL-WN725N on linux and windowz
This is my personal evaluation of the device. This device is a USB connected wireless router, about the size of a thumbnail, including the USB connector. Security supported is only WEP, WPA/WPA2, WPA-PSK and WPA2-PSK; so I’m not even sure … Continue reading
Lots of probs with an upgrade to fc20, mostly sorted now
First an upgrade of a desktop with 6Gb of memory from fc19 to fc20 worked with no problems in around 3hrs, and came up cleanly (there is still the outstanding issue with encrypted disks if you don’t reply to the … Continue reading
Thunderbird for Linux… gave up.
Thunderbird used to be my favourite email client many years ago when I used windowze as an OS. I wanted to try to get it running under Linux (Fedora, installed from repositories). I just had to give up. It has … Continue reading
Installing bfgminer bitminer for Linux users
As always this is a post to myself as a reminder. I had to bare metal restore one of my servers and lost the setup. So saved here for posterity. Installing bfgminer from github; for Fedora Linux users. Assumes you … Continue reading
OpenStack experiences so far
I have been getting interested in openstack. I don’t have the hardware to run a full openstack environment, so I have been using the devstack development environment (available from devstack.org in a Ubuntu virtual machine. Sooo… memory-wise I have a … Continue reading
LUKS encryption for multiple internal hard drives
Having fun again. Purchased a new PC from TradeMe, had a internal 80Gb SSD (boot device) plus two 80GB hard drives. A few other things like 6Gb of memory, bargain for $270 really. But them I bid on the machines … Continue reading
Setting up an external disk for LUKS encryption
Should you encrypt external disks ?, why not as they are normally used as backup devices, and if you encrypted the data to be backed up it would be pointless to then store that on an unencrypted backup device. The … Continue reading
GDB Debugger, great if you know how
Ok folks, head over to http://direc.org/linux/gdb/ for the best tuturial I have ever come across on using GDB to debug C programs. I wish I had seen that years ago, it would have saved me a lot of time and … Continue reading
MultiTail – what a find
I wasn’t looking for this, I was actually looking for a log parsing tool, just hoping somebody had written one to meet my needs before I start to look at enhancing mine. Didn’t find any. Lots of log analyzers but … Continue reading
Bacula backup application, I like it
I have been playing with backup software to determine a good way of backing up my servers; other than the unorigional tar and scp method I have been using until now. I did investigate TSM server/client (tested with a version … Continue reading