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Revert To eth Device Names
(2014-05-05) Problem: I have a piece of software that expects my first ethernet device to be call...
nfs v4: Nobody Ownership
(21 January 2013) Problem When I look at the files exported from my CentOS 6 server, everything's...
netdisco-1.1-1.el6.noarch
(2013-05-29) How I Got NetDisco netdisco-1.1-1.el6.noarch Running On CentOS 6 From epel-testing: ...
mod_fastcgi
(2016-02-24) Solution Fastcgi is available through RPMforge. To add the module: Install RPMforg...
Minimal Install Can't Mount NFS Homedirs
(2014-05-13) Problem Install with @Base and @Core, plus ypbind and autofs. But once configured, t...
rssh
Jailing sftp/scp connections (1206.12) Short notes: this uses the rssh functionality from rpmforg...
Remote X Display
Displaying Remote X Applications On Your Local Display ...ie, connect to a remote machine, run th...
Process Accounting
(26 September 2012) Process Accounting # chkconfig psacct on; service psacct start This will cre...
NVidia Multihead
Problem I am running a CentOS 5.3 x86_64 (fully updated as of today). It has a video card I canno...
NFS File Creation Cache Problems
Problem If I create a file on an nfs-mounted filesystem on one machine, the file may not be immed...
kickstart POST nfs mount
Mounting nfs file systems in the %POST section of a CentOS 5 kickstart mount 172.20.0.1:/home /mn...
Building Subversion 1.85
(2014-01-16) Problem I want to run Subversion v1.85, client and server, on CentOS 5 (today's vict...
A Pox On Your Freedom
(2011-12-04) Jonathan Zittrain explains that the personal computer is dead because our computing ...
Label Maker
(2014-ish) What has been my best moment in IT? There have been several moments -- how about the o...
Too Clever For My Own Good
(2018 sometime) 15 years ago, I accidentally ran a complicated shell command that muffed a couple...
Unclean
Why the fuck do PC guys think that they can "clean" infected PCs? I'm old-school unix -- if there...
Why Do Blackberry Apps Suck So Much?
(21 September 2011) The Problem The problem with the Blackberry App (or AppStore App (or whatever...
Why Build From Source?
Question: Why would anyone in their right mind build and install software from source code? (orig...
When Tools Just Work
(12 January 2007) This is just a little story illustrating what happens when you use the best too...
User Environment Churn
or, It Will Happen To You Too, Kid (15 November 2011) I had to laugh the other week. Some Ubuntu ...