A Flexible Partition Layout for your Linux PC
There's an option in fstab that I think is relatively new. It lets you mount devices by label. The label it uses corresponds to the label you can give a partition with the e2label command. In KDE the...
View ArticleSystem Lockup with my new Asus M2NPV-VM Linux box
I've had a problem twice now with my new system. It's an AMD Athlon X2 4200+ with an Asus M2NPV-VM motherboard running OpenSuse 10.1 Linux. What happens from my point of view is that the display locks...
View ArticleHow-To: Flashing the Bios on my Asus M2NPV-VM with EZ-Flash
I mentioned the other day that I had a couple lockups with my new system (an AMD 64 X2 4200+ with the Asus M2NPV-VM motherboard). Since I didn't see the setting I thought might fix a problem that X...
View ArticleHow To Reset the Password on a GNet BB0060B
I have a GNet BB0060A DSL modem. It works pretty well but when I first got it years ago I screwed something up and couldn't get in to the web-based user interface any more. It also doesn't have a reset...
View ArticlePlanning for OpenLDAP at Home
A lot's been going on at home lately, Candace and her brood are coming to live with me and my daughter. We're doing piles of construction in the basement to get bedrooms built. We're all excited and...
View ArticleA Little LDAP Progress
Background I'm trying to move forward with the plan I outlined the other day. In short I want to use LDAP to simplify my home network of five computers and six users. I haven't got as far as setting up...
View ArticleMy LDAP Tree So Far
It took a lot of digging to figure out how I should approach choosing a good LDAP directory layout for my house but Michael Donnelly seems to have an answer I like. I created Organizational Units to...
View ArticleHot Drives: Dealing with SMART data on OpenSuse 10.3
One thing I've noticed since upgrading my system to OpenSuse 10.3 is that my 3 older Western Digital 160GB drives (specifically 2 WDC WD1600JB-00D and a WDC WD1600JB-00F) run really hot. Like 120...
View ArticleSpinning Down Hard Drives in OpenSuse 10.3
I started out talking about SMART and drive temperatures the other day but got all geeked out about hardware and forgot where I was going. I meant to also talk about how I tried to just spin down my...
View ArticleInstalling the ThermalTake Ruby Orb on my Asus M2NPV-VM
Just in case anyone's wondering about the outcome from the parts I ordered the other day, I just installed my Ruby Orb fan on my Asus M2NPV-VM. It was a little scary, for one thing that heatsink &...
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