Category Archives: Linux

Moving Ubuntu Linux from PATA drive to SATA drive

Posted on May 20, 2008 by mergy

 
I had mergy.org running on a very old laptop on a small ide 2.5″ drive. It was slow, but it was working. It got very tedious to work on though when anything went wrong and the webserver was really starting … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu Wifi Management With WICD

Posted on February 2, 2008 by mergy

After running Ubuntu for quite a while now, most of the system is great and extremely functional. The real mess is with the lack of wireless management tools to handle multiple wireless networks. That is, until I have been working … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu Gutsy and IBm ThinkPad T42 Xorg Configuration

Posted on January 27, 2008 by mergy

Getting Ubuntu Gutsy running on an IBM ThinkPad T42 is easy, but the X Server can be a pain. Here is my config.
# xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
#
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Bonding Network Interfaces on RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5)

Posted on January 2, 2008 by mergy

RedHat’s Knowledgebase has no info on correctly bonding network interfaces on RHEL 5. They do have some old RHEL 3 information, but things have changed a little bit and they have failed to add the changes to another knowledgebase article. … Continue reading →

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GRUB Linux Boot Large Volumes Issue Fix

Posted on December 21, 2007 by mergy

RedHat Linux / RHEL 5 and previous versions have a problem with large volumes because of a boot limitation with GRUB .9x (now referred to as ‘GRUB Legacy’ which does not allow booting to volumes larger than roughly 2 terabytes. … Continue reading →

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