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Xvfb As A Service
sometimes it’s useful to run a a X app without a display to batch process something, but the app won’t run without an X server to connect to. That’s where X Virtual Frame Buffer Xvfb comes in. It’s everything an X server should be except actually displaying anything. It’s just missing one nicety, by default [...]
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Stop Motion Video on Linux
I needed to make a cutesy video to give a quick overview of the products the startup I’m working with wants to make. Here is how I accomplished this on Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install luciole luciole is an interesting project written for a french animation festival (you’ll want to run those links through google translate, [...]
Tags: animation, linux, stopmotion, video
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Proliant Blade running RHEL5, you’ll need a cma.log rotation script
No one seems to have written a log rotation script for the Proliant Support Pack logs that are stored in /var/spool/compaq/cma.log, so I thought I’d throw mine up here in case someone else needs one. put this in a file called “cma” in /etc/logrotate.d/ /var/spool/compaq/cma.log { compress missingok size=100M postrotate /sbin/service hpasm restart 2> /dev/null [...]
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mysqld failing to load after changing default locations
I just solved a problem at work that google was no help with. I’m posting this in hopes some other poor soul who has the same problem finds this post. After an OS re-install (Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4) we were changing the default location of data used for application into a different filesystem [...]
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Ubuntu from Dell “Day 2″ impressions
As mentioned earlier, Meg’s new computer is a Dell with Ubuntu Linux pre-installed. Overall, we’re still happy with the system, but I wanted to mention a few “gotchas” i’ve found since being able to poke around the system a bit more. First, Meg’s system came with a widescreen monitor. X windows was only configured with [...]
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Ubuntu from Dell, first impressions
I order a new computer for Meg as her IDE controller appears to be flaking out. I decided to order one of the new Dells with Ubuntu pre-installed. On first boot up, I was asked to agree to the Terms and Conditions. This was before even the OS loaded, must be a BIOS thing. Once [...]
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Warwalking
Meg and I took the dog and my laptop for a walk around the neighborhood tonight. I found 18 wireless networks, 15 of which were unsecured. 5 of which were named “linksys” it’s enough that the thought of cancelling my cable service and mooching from the neighbors stayed in my mind more than briefly. I’ll [...]
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This is more a note to myself, as I want to remember this link on setting up Bluetooth DUN in Gentoo. I just need to figure out where my USB Bluetooth dongle got to... (1)
Don’t Buy Netgear WG511 To Use With Linux
So, I recently bought the netgear wg511 card from newegg. The reviews on newegg are glowing for this card, and how well supported it is in Linux. My package arrived yesterday, and I tried to get it setup with the prism54 driver. Turns out, I received version 2 of the card, which uses the Marvell [...]
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Don’t Piss off DrunkenBatman
One of my favorite blogs, DrunkenBlog, just wrote up a horrible prank he pulled on an old friend. This is what he does to friends. I wonder what he does to his enemies.
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