Category Archives: linux

DynDNS and uptime

Posted on March 27, 2010 by welsh_dwarf

Anyone who has tried to get into touch with me or read this blog these last few days can atest to the fact that I haven’t been reachable. My deepest apologies . To understand what happened, here’s a quick lowdown … Continue reading →

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AAC – Round 2

Posted on May 20, 2009 by welsh_dwarf

I’ve just gotten back into ffmpeg fun after a long haitus, during which ffmpeg v5 has come out. (No deb instructions this time since I’ve passed on to arch, which has a perfectly functional package). A couple of thing seem … Continue reading →

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DNS 101

Posted on March 2, 2009 by welsh_dwarf

I just thought that I’d post a quickie on DNS FQDNs (Fully qualified domain names). Go to your browser, type in www.google.com, you get the google home page. Everythings normal there. Now, change your url, ad a dot (so that … Continue reading →

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New server – same blog

Posted on February 18, 2009 by welsh_dwarf

I’ve just finished moving my blog (and my mail) over to a new server. For once, the new machine is less powerful than the old. This blog is now running on an opengate with 512Mb ram and 512Mb of disk … Continue reading →

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I Hate downtime

Posted on July 9, 2008 by welsh_dwarf

Yesterday evening, I agreed to turn my Home Server ™ off too help some people sleep. Unfortunatly my servers sleep turned out to be the big sleep, and this morning it refused to start. A few hours and a HD … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu vs AAC (round 1)

Posted on June 7, 2008 by welsh_dwarf

For better or for worse, (generally for worse) a lot of multimedia systems seem to like making peoples lives difficult. This is painfully obvious with AAC and the formats that use it (think mp4). Luckally, playback can be assured by … Continue reading →

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Bye bye Dapper, Welcome Hardy

Posted on April 27, 2008 by welsh_dwarf

I’ve just finished upgrading my server to Ubuntu Hardy, with virtual no trouble. The only problem came from the kernel, which now calls  ide drives ‘sd…’ instead of ‘hd…’ so hda1 becomes sda1. Update grub or face the consequances.You have … Continue reading →

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Zabbix

Posted on February 7, 2008 by welsh_dwarf

Sometimes things that seem completely harmless just come and hit you over the head… That’s what happened to me with Zabbix yesterday. I was going through some items and cleaning up, when suddenly, 4 hosts went off-line. Except that they … Continue reading →

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Geek's dream…

Posted on December 11, 2007 by welsh_dwarf

Or mabey not, anyhow, here’s a quick counter to tell you how far away KDE4 is…

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VMware Server +nat -dhcp?

Posted on November 10, 2007 by welsh_dwarf

I’ve just been testing an install CD for enkix, our custom Debian installer, to make sure it works next week when I re-install some servers in Paris. The problem is that our datacenter lacks a dhcp server (everythings static), whereas … Continue reading →

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