On my production web server, I’m kind of a crazy fool. I often do things that make people cringe and scream and say “what the hell are you doing?” One of those said things is doing a distribution upgrade on-the-fly of the OS. Since the installation of my server some three and a half years [...]
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Replacing a Live System RAID On The Fly
June 26th, 2009
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Well, this is one of those crazy fun things that I had to attempt. My old system drive consisted of two 80 GB IDE drives in a mirror configuration. Pretty standard, but they were getting sluggish and I happen to have a few 320GB SATA drives doing nothing. This is not a tutorial. This is [...]
Ubuntu 9.04 on a Dell Latitude D610, Success.
May 9th, 2009
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I had the joy of recovering data from a busted-ass Windows XP installation. You know, the one where it blue screens no matter what boot process you try with an error about “kernl32.dll” being screwed? Yeah, one of those. So, I fired up an Ubuntu live CD to test the hardware and figure out if [...]
Happy Ubuntu Day (9.04 Released!)
April 23rd, 2009
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Today, like clockwork, is the day in which Ubuntu issues another release. Get your copy via the always legal BitTorrent here. Happy Ubuntu Day!
