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 [...]
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!
Ubuntu 8.10 (Alpha 6) on my Mac Book Pro
September 30th, 2008
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I installed Ubuntu 8.10, Alpha 6 on my Mac Book Pro (2nd generation) last night to give it a whirl. I didn’t do anything with bootcamp, just a straight install. The installer was fine, it went it’s normal route. When I rebooted it took a while – I guess this is expected when booting an [...]
