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Another successful Passenger deployment

Jun 25th

Posted by Shane in Computers

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This morning, as a result of a hardware failure on my home server, I decided to move my Redmine devtracker to my Linode host. More >

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Live backups using LVM and dump

May 27th

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If, like me, you’ve built your Ubuntu machine using LVM for all partitions except /boot, you can do a live backup of your system using LVM snapshots and the dump tool. More >

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Quick Tip: Ubuntu default runlevel

Apr 24th

Posted by Shane in Computers

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If you, like me, use sysv-rc-conf to change the services that run a particular runlevel, i.e. so that runlevel 2 is actually only networked and not GUI as tradition holds, you can set the default runlevel to boot in Ubuntu by editing:

/etc/inittab:
id:3:initdefault

The number in the middle is the runlevel to start by default.

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Personal internet acceleration, part 1

Apr 14th

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My SFF server machine has been configured to speed up my digital life. More >

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Using binary NVidia 8800GT drivers on Ubuntu Gutsy

Apr 14th

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In order for me to use the official binary drivers, version 169.12, from NVidia with my GeForce 8800GT on Ubuntu Gutsy, I had to do some research. Alberto Milone‘s envy tool makes the whole thing almost idiot-proof.
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Ubuntu Gutsy AMD64, LVM, and Xen from repositories

Apr 10th

Posted by Shane in Computers

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My desktop just grew by two 500GB Western Digital Caviar drives. Having installed those, I loaded Gutsy-AMD64 on one using LVM. The partition schema is as follows:

Drive: 500GB #1
Volume Group: server1
Volumes:
	swap_1 - 6GB - swap
	root_1 - 30GB - ext3 - mounted as /
	home_1 - 20GB - ext3 - mounted as /home/
Free space: ~398GB

500GB number two will probably wind up being a RAID mirror via my motherboard. This LVM layout allows me to dynamically allocate space for the many potential Xen DomUs I create.

To install Xen on Gutsy-AMD64 desktop version:
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-xen-desktop-amd64

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