I\’ve had the issue where the Citrix Xen App on Fedora wouldn\’t start because it popped up with a screen mentioning I decided that I didn\’t trust a Verisign root certificate. Well, I haven\’t decided anything. the blooddy app just didn\’t install the certificates with it nor did it use the standard location in /etc/ssl/certs […]
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Of course you can look at the hostname output but if you switch between numerous hosts all day you will have a fair chance you\’ll enter a \”sudo shutdown -r now\” and have a \”SH*T &^$*%)*()_(*&**%$\” moment.
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One of the most handy utilities I\’ve used for a long time is ipcalc. It basically gives you all sorts of information on IP addressing, subnets, etc. The output looks like this: ipcalculator output It seems the RedHat engineers have a bit of their own mind and so they come up with a different version
I\’m not hiding the fact I\’ve been a SUN MicroSystems fan all my life. They had great products, great engineering philosophy and best of all great people who knew how to pick a potato. The problem was that they went down the same path as DEC (huhhh, who…???) DEC, Digital Equipment Corporation. One of those
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I\’m not hiding the fact I\’ve been a SUN MicroSystems fan all my life. They had great products, great engineering philosophy and best of all great people who knew how to pick a potato. The problem was that they went down the same path as DEC (huhhh, who…???) DEC, Digital Equipment Corporation. One of those
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With Fedora comes an option to have tcsd installed. Well, its not really an option. It installs by default apparently. This got me a bit baffled to see failed services on an almost brand new PC. So what is exactly this tcsd service? It turns out that the tcsd is a user space daemon to
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So with the new box I ordered a NVidia GeForce GT 640 Grafx card. I need some desktop realestate and thus a very high resolution card. This one came very good in the middle from a price and performance perspective. Since a couple of kernel version ago Linux comes with the OpenSource nouveau drivers which
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Given the fact I now have an SSD drive running the /boot and root partition I do want to make the most of it. So in order to improve and keep this improvement over time I did the following: I first reduce the amount of \”swappiness\” to the minimum. The box has 16G ram so
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OK so this one got me going for a while. Yes, did not read the Developers and Administrator guides. Maybe I should have. This week I received a new PC with some serious grunt. Boot time takes on Fedora 17 +- 4 seconds including a shitload of daemons. I also did not want to lose
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With Fedora 17 you have to be using some older firmware. I checked and there is a difference in size. The \”file\” command doesn\’t give anything in return however the actual size needs to be 129304 bytes in size. The one that comes with one of the Fedora 17 updates seems to overwrite it with
D-Link System DWA-131 802.11n Wireless N Nano Adapter(rev.A1) [Realtek RTL8192SU] Read More »
