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NUT ups.conf configuration for OMNIVS 1500XL USB
  • Power Tools

NUT ups.conf configuration for OMNIVS 1500XL USB

  • Posted on December 2, 2018December 2, 2018
  • by Jonathan Mergy

The Tripplite OmniVS 1500XL is a great home/SOHO USB UPS that is expandable with external battery packs. But, the NUT support on Debian-based linux distros is no bueno. They support…

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  • Ubuntu

Traffic Visualization Generated From Hacker News via Logstalgia

  • Posted on May 26, 2013July 28, 2013
  • by Jonathan Mergy

I wanted to play with Logstalgia (https://github.com/acaudwell/Logstalgia) a little so I found an older Apache log file back in Jan 2013 from my website when I was fortunate to get…

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  • Apple

Decent settings for mbpfan.conf for a MacBook 8,2

  • Posted on April 28, 2013January 27, 2014
  • by Jonathan Mergy

Fan-Control-Daemon has been working great for months on my MacBook Pro 8,2 running Ubuntu 13.04 natively but found it getting hotter and hotter all the time. So, I recompiled FCD…

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  • Hardware

Installing Ubuntu Server 13.04 on an HP DL320e Gen8

  • Posted on April 25, 2013April 25, 2013
  • by Jonathan Mergy

I just had the experience of installing Ubuntu Server 13.04 on a new HP DL320e Gen8 server and it was not as easy as it should have been. It’s kind…

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  • Linux

Integrated Spamassassin and Postfix MTA Setup on Ubuntu

  • Posted on April 8, 2013April 9, 2013
  • by Jonathan Mergy

The wiki entry on the Spamassassin wiki for the simple setup with Postfix is almost there. I recently setup my 12.04 Ubuntu server with Spamassassin with Postfix and everything is…

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  • Linux

Perl 5.16 on Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail)

  • Posted on March 29, 2013March 29, 2013
  • by Jonathan Mergy

Update 2013-03-29: Caused some chaos with debconf. I have modified the sets a little to fix it. If you need to move off Perl 5.14 which is the current distro…

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  • Hacks

Three Tips To Get VMware Workstation 9 Going on Kernel 3.8.0

  • Posted on March 20, 2013March 29, 2013
  • by Jonathan Mergy

First off, if you are trying to get VMware Workstation 9.x to run on a non-supported system or one that really hasn’t even been formally released yet like Ubuntu 13.04…

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  • Linux

Ubuntu kernel updates mess-up wireless on MacBook Pro 8,2

  • Posted on March 15, 2013March 15, 2013
  • by Jonathan Mergy

I’m running Ubuntu 13.04 and burning through the daily updates and hit the latest kernel down the proposed repo and ran it only to kill my wireless on my Macbook…

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  • Linux

Repairing a badly damaged package system in Ubuntu

  • Posted on March 7, 2013March 8, 2013
  • by Jonathan Mergy

Recently, I did something really stupid and damaged my whole dpkg system. It was pretty bad. I did an “apt-get purge” with a pattern and wildcard and thought it was…

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  • Linux

Getting f.lux going on Ubuntu Linux 13.04 (Raring Ringtail)

  • Posted on March 2, 2013March 2, 2013
  • by Jonathan Mergy

Once you start using f.lux on some of your devices, you miss it when you don’t have it everywhere.  If you are running Ubuntu 13.04 right now, you can’t easily…

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