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Tag Archives: linux
Serial and display console
Configuration examples on the internets for configuring GRUB to boot serial console tend to turn off the regular console, for GRUB and for Linux. Here’s how you get serial console and regular keyboard/monitor console for both GRUB and Linux: # … Continue reading
“Unable to negotiate SSH” after “upgrade”
If you update to Ubuntu LTS (version 22.04), you will want this in your .ssh/config: Failure to do that gets you this: The dear old NSA of the USA is gently shoving everyone away from effective cryptography towards backdoored nonsense, … Continue reading
Invasion of the evil androids
Google says you are too stupid to rule your own life. They say this by their Android phone operating system, in which they do not give you, the owner and operator of the device, root permissions. This means: You cannot … Continue reading
Computer insomnia
I updated my Ubuntu system installation on a laptop. This went fine. I installed more memory. This went well. But on the second day, I discovered that my laptop had insomnia. It could not sleep. Close the lid? It’s still … Continue reading
December is a bad month for Linux system administration
The system load for Linux is an indication of how busy the system is, and how long you are going to wait to get something done. When the load is 0.0, that means that the system is ready to do … Continue reading
MD and LVM ate my file system … and gave it back
So we have this computer that has two 250Gb disks. In the interest of keeping the data, for evah I set them up as RAID1 using Linux MD RAID. This was cool. Much as a proper technical person does not … Continue reading
Loading progress display with mod_fcgid using mod_deflate
When you run your processes with mod_fcgid under apache, one of the problems is that you cannot usefully run flush() to send buffered output through to the client. The reason for this is that the fastcgi interface doesn’t have the … Continue reading
Compiling deb with debian/rules in parallel
Make supports parallel compiling, with the Linux kernel compile recommending you make use of your expensive CPU cores something like this: make -j 4 You can even do that if you don’t have a multiprocessor system, since you have a … Continue reading
Windows Apps for Linux make Linux horrible
InstallShield is a wonderful tool … on Windows. In a previous decade, I used it to install some bloatware I wrote that wasn’t about to be installed any other way. Since Windows has no standards and no proper scripting (especially … Continue reading
