2009-07-30

Xen recovery on CentOS

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I had a Xen domain crash, and it was a file image based LVM system. To mount the system manually in the host, I had to do: losetup /dev/loop...
2009-05-19

bzr error on BranchHooks

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On one Ubuntu 8.04 system, I was getting the following error: 0.031 looking for plugins in /root/.bazaar/plugins 0.031 looking for plugins...
2009-03-10

NVidia TwinView on Ubuntu

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After using envyng to install the NVIDIA drivers, I would get this error when trying to turn on TwinView: Failed to set MetaMode (2) 'DF...
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2009-02-24

Diablo II on Vista

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If you try to install Diablo 2 on Vista you may get this error: Error in script file Setupdat\inst.ins, line 14: undefined symbol (desktop) ...
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2008-12-25

StarCraft on Vista

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Installing StarCraft on Vista can be a pain. First, you need to add the a registry key in the following location: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software...
2008-11-09

request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000

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When trying to upgrade my kernel on a Gentoo box I got the above error. Many people discussed it, but all the solutions seemed to be "i...
2008-11-04

VMware Fusion incorrectly assigns user ids for hgfs shares

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Because VMware is aimed at CentOS, by default the hgfs shares are set up to be owned by the user with id 501; you'll need to change this...
2008-10-29

Enable Mac OS X Leopard Remote Desktop for VNC via SSH

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If you have SSH access to your Mac, you can remotely enable Remote Desktop. However, if you want to VNC into the Mac, you'll need to set...
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Exporting a database in human-readable form from mysql

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Using mysqldump with the defaults results in huge INSERT statements that can be hard to deal with if you're fiddling with the output by ...
2008-09-23

Using ntpdate like rdate

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If you want to just update the current time on a linux box but not configure ntpd, and rdate is not available or not working, use this comma...