I’d almost forgotten about this: roller-c3640 uptime is 1 year, 1 week, 4 days, 17 hours, 23 minutes System returned to ROM by power-on System restarted at 19:27:12 PDT Mon May 12 2003 roller-cat2900 uptime is 1 year, 1 week, 4 days, 17 hours, 21 minutes System returned to ROM by power-on System restarted at […]
RPM is great for maintaining packages on multiple systems – until something goes wrong and the database gets corrupted. Here’s a quick and easy way to rebuild a corrupt RPM database: $ rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* $ rpm –rebuilddb
I discovered today that the mgetty binary in my Red Hat 9.0 system wanted to reference /usr/lib/sendmail or not work at all. The problem presented itself as mgetty receiving a fax, spooling it to disk, and not doing anything else with it. After creating a symlink for /usr/lib/sendmail (I’m using postfix instead of sendmail), mgetty […]
A while back I had to send my laptop in to be repaired under AppleCare. Knowing full well what the problem was, I told them what was wrong and what I did to come to my conclusion. However, they still felt the need to erase my drive and prove themselves wrong. I ended up with […]
I currently have a Sun SPARCStation 4 sitting in my room. Of course, the unique monitor connection makes it impossible for me to fire it up without an adapter. eBay should have one. Once I have one of those, I should be able to turn it on and see if it works and stuff.
I read Usenet groups. I had a newsreader on my computer, Thoth, but while I was reinstalling all my software today I discovered that Thoth is no longer available for download anywhere. Apparently they publisher just up and decided to stop distributing it, and pull links, too. How freaking retarded is that? They get a […]
I accidentally deleted all the sources for my VirtualDVHS project. And I was keeping them outside of the directory tree that gets backed up. Damn. I guess I get to start over from scratch when I can find time to do so. In the meantime, the last binary version I had compiled is still available, […]
I came across this little utility called “tiobench” while looking for something to benchmark my RAID 5 array. It turns out that if you abuse the computer with it, you can also track down drive, controller and memory problems (which will be indicated with a kernel panic). If it runs with the most abusive settings […]