So do to the fact that my HTPC died, and I didn’t want to restore the OS from a backup, I opted instead to install a fresh (and reasonably modern) version of Kubuntu. Once installed I quickly ran into problems … Continue reading
So over the last few years I’ve been a very simple HTPC setup. It consisted of an Intel E4500, 4GB ram system with a GTX 780 Nvidia card running Kubuntu Linux 12.04. For storage I booted off a simple USB … Continue reading
So recently I’ve put together a test cluster for testing Lustre (www.lustre.org), which is a file system technology that I work directly on in my day job. The cluster is a bit interesting as it’s a 5 node, dual E5540, … Continue reading
So interestingly I noticed that as soon as I upgraded to the 3.19 kernel (RC5 in my case) I was no longer able to connect to any internal machines on my corporate VPN. Interestingly my private OpenVPN services still all … Continue reading
Mounting a DVD or CD image (ISO file) virtually is trivial in linux. To do this you’ll need to have superuser permissions, in the example below I’m using the sudo command: cfaber@sputnik:/dump$ mkdir ISO cfaber@sputnik:/dump$ sudo mount -o loop DVD-IMAGE.ISO … Continue reading
One of the commands that I find my self using almost everyday is rsync: a fast and extraordinarily versatile file copying tool. It can copy locally, to/from another host over any remote shell, or to/from a remote rsync daemon. It … Continue reading
So your file system has crashed… Upon running e2fsck against it you’re now seeing error such as: Pass 1B: Rescanning for multiply-claimed blocks Multiply-claimed block(s) in inode 4195619: 167904376 167904377 167904378 167904379 167904380 167904381 167904382 167904383 167904384 167904385 167904386 167949296 … Continue reading
So yesterday the wife was complaining to me that her Adobe Lightroom installation was not working correctly. The problem she was having had to do with importing files into Lightroom. Basically what was going on was she would open Lightroom … Continue reading
Dell has released A06 BIOS version for the XPS 13 (9333) model. The release notes (available here) are extremely light on detail, however I can tell you it does seem to resolve (at least so far for me, and … Continue reading
So over the last few weeks I’ve been trying to sort out the final problems with my XPS 13. The last, and most annoying problem I’ve seen is the frequent and seemingly random lockups on suspend. This bothers me a … Continue reading