Tonite I decided to swap out my gnump3d partition for a hard drive twice the size. Normally it’d be a quick and easy job–thats assuming there are no errors when I put it in my headless server. Well, that wasn’t the case (of course!) and I spent the next twenty minutes re-installing a video card,… Read More »
Well I’m using Dapper 6.6 on two of my machines now. I initially had it installed on one machine for testing and it has since proven itself stable enough for everyday use (for me anyway). Anyone new to Ubuntu or Linux would be well advised not to try it.. just yet. To check out some… Read More »
As some of you may know I’ve been helping test the next Ubuntu release, Dapper v6.04. My only issue so far has been with support for wireless on my notebook. Previously I’ve had to use ndiswrapper, which ‘wraps’ the windows driver & uses that to load the card. In this next version they’ve implemented a… Read More »
I added table optimization to the sqlbackup script. This now: optimizes existing databases (similar to defrag) dumps them thru bzip2 & stores in $dest by $date dumps directly into a remote mysql-server rsyncs database dump to remote machine for archiving.
My sqlbackup script may need some tweaking–I’m looking into it. I noticed after four days of regular, problem-free use it now reports Access denied for ‘user’ at ‘remote.machine’ when dumping directly into the database. I am not sure why but hopefully I can figure it out. I did remedy the situation by re-granting access to… Read More »
I’ve put together a MySQL backup script for use on this server. I thought someone else might appreciate use of it (or just use as a basic template). You’re welcome to download a copy (see Downloads). Basically it does this: Outputs a list of databases using mysqldump drops these thru a bzip2 filter for compression… Read More »
After further testing it seems my backup drive was the faulty one and my main drive is just fine. I also kept a backup of my backup so I haven’t lost any data but what a hassle for a quiet sunday morning. I may see if I can find a cheap HDD as a replacement.… Read More »
I booted my desktop this morning and I’ve got some strange hard disk errors. Luckily, of course, I’ve got backups on a second mounted drive (which seems to be fine) and a few other machines I can use in the meantime. I think I’m going to try a full re-install and see if a full… Read More »
I’ve updated the wireless howto with, I think, clearer instructions vs the previous listing I had. I have also included a search engine. The search engine should be helpful to narrow down the listings to only what you need. It will search the ndiswrapper listings and show you the pages it finds your PCI ID.… Read More »