2010-11-09

Flying in turbulence

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The first time I flew in turbulence was 2007-01-05. It was a solo flight from KSEE to KSZP (Gillespie in San Diego to Santa Paula) a few wee...
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2010-10-28

Using sz to transfer files via an existing SSH connection

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If you are using KDE's konsole, it has built-in support for the Zmodem protocol. I often SSH into remote machines via "hopping...
2010-10-13

Adobe Flash 10 on Ubuntu with Chrome

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I was trying to use Chromium on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, and Flash was working, but about:plugins revealed that it was version 9 whereas I w...
2010-04-15

Syntax error near unexpected token `)'

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I was trying to make a case statement in bash, and was getting this error: ./check: line 8: syntax error near unexpected token `)' ./...
2010-04-14

Ubuntu 10.04 Boot Issues

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I loaded Beta 2 of Lucid Lynx on a machine; it wouldn't get past the splash screen. I had to hit the spacebar during the Live CD boot to...
2010-03-04

Burger

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I'm going to get a burger.
2010-02-18

Windows 7 not seeing SATA drives

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I was trying to install Windows 7 on a system, and it wouldn't see the SATA drive. All evidence pointed to the drivers being correct and...
2010-02-09

Bringing a recalcitrant SiS ethernet adapter up

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I have a SiS900 Ethernet controller that I could assign IP and IPv6 addresses to, but I couldn't bring it up. mii-tool reported that th...

Fixing max open files (1024) is smaller than max sockets (4096) errors

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If you are running BIND , you may be seeing errors like this in your logs each time you reload or restart named : Feb  9 22:22:17 mail nam...
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2010-02-08

Unicode entry in Ubuntu

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To enter Unicode characters in Ubuntu, simply hold down CTRL+SHIFT+U which will create an underlined u: u Then type the hex code for the ch...