For the last few days I’ve been fighting TweetDeck on my laptop trying to get it to open web pages in Opera. A small, but fast browser, from the Norwegian company with the same name.
At first I thought that Opera wasn’t my default browser in Gnome. I’m currently using Linux Mint, a distribution based on [...]
Today I upgraded from Ubuntu 6.06 to 8.04. The process was fairly painless thanks to a guide I found floating around on the Internet by Ronald Bruintjes. Thanks!
I thought about posting it here, but that wouldn’t be fair to the author. So, please visit his site for more information.
However, be prepared to answer some questions [...]
Today I had a case where a server mounted the root filesystem as read-only during boot. To make a short story shorter, check /dev/null.
After doing some searching in the logs I found a few lines complaining about /dev/null also being read-only filesystem. So I checked the permission with ls -al /dev/null, and it turned out [...]
I recently had to configure NimBUS to send alarm upon detecting a specific log entry in /var/log/messages on a Linux system. Because this alarm was supposed to be sent by SMS , I didn’t want it to send more than one message. But since our log file has a timestamp, each entry were we found [...]
My home server, Threepwood, named after the main character in the popular game series “Monkey Island”, has finally taken the step out of this world and into the virtual space.
For a few years it resided within a Compaq Proliant 400 with whooping 384MB of RAM and 450MHz CPU. Running Ubuntu Linux, this has actually been [...]
For several months now I’ve been planning to virtualize my home server. That’s the server hosting this blog, among other things. For starters it would give me some more room to test different applications on separate operating system, but without the hassle of dealing with several physical computers.
One of my ideas is to test web [...]
Gustavo Duarte has written series of interesting articles about the boot process of a computer.
There isn’t much more I can say about this subject myself, other that I found it interesting, so I’m just going to point you directly to these articles instead.
Motherboard Chipsets and the Memory Map
How Computers Boot Up
The Kernel Boot Process
Enjoy.
Since I got my new Lenovo ThinkPad X61, I have discovered that the CPU fan is behaving rather differently than the one I have in my IBM ThinkPad X31. That is the fan makes a lot more noise when idle on the X61.
For the record. I’m running Ubunty Hardy (8.04) on the X61 and Ubuntu [...]
As I mentioned in my last post I had some minor problems with Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) and hibernation. It didn’t always work.
However it now seems like I might have overcome this problem. At first I thought it might had something to do with my docking station. Hibernating while docked, booting up while not and vice [...]
Updated March 25th
Everytime I install the Linux Citrix Client it seems like I run into problems with SSL-Certificates. The message usually sounds like this:
You have not chosen to trust “Thawte Server CA”, the issuer of the server’s security cerfiticate (SSL error 61).
You might have another company listet as issuer on your server.
Anyway, let’s fix it.
Run [...]
