Published by kyle on 27 Aug 2008
bagpuss@mine:~/.beagle $ du -sh
8.1G .
bagpuss@mine:~/.beagle $ du -sh Log/
8.0G Log/
bagpuss@mine:~/.beagle $ cd; rm -rf ~/.beagle/
bagpuss@mine:~ $
What have you got to say for yourself? Hmmm? This is on Ubuntu Hardy, which is supposed to be ’stable’ software. Filling up ~ with your logs doesn’t instill a sense of stability…
Published by kyle on 18 Jul 2008
Having had the misfortune to be editing the partition table of one of our Oracle servers, I discovered that Grub 0.97 (the SLES SP1 variety) doesn’t play well with DL380 Smart Array Controllers. The magic auto detection that we’ve all grown to know and love just… it just doesn’t. Here’s how to regain that Grub magic…
Published by kyle on 15 Jul 2008
It’s probably already been covered, but my 30 seconds of Google-Fu hasn’t turned anything up so bear with me…
Take one OpenMoko phone, a geolocation service like Fire Eagle, an online celltower database such as CellDB, and some code to use those lovely d-bus bindings, and you could have a location reporting service that’s easy on the battery and mostly precise in urban areas. If your area isn’t covered by CellDB, then run around with the OpenMoko GPS reciever online for a while to report celltower locations, and you’re sorted.
Use all of the above to create services like Socialight, location based Twittering, rough geotagging for photos (courtesy of Flickr and FireEagle [both Yahoo companies]) , pre-emptive OSM tile downloads, Asterisk routing - you could even implement ex-girlfriend logic to it all, if she were to have a similar device 
Well, I’m sure someone has thought of this already, but I thought I would commit ideas to storage just in case. Once my FreeRunner arrives, I know what I’ll be working on
Published by kyle on 04 Jul 2008
Migrated to OES on Linux, and missing out on that menu driven dsrepair fun? Fret no more, as DSRmenu will nicely wrap up the CLI version of ndsrepair, and put it into a nice menu driven system for you.
Published by kyle on 05 Feb 2008
It had to be done KDE4 on Windows, in VMWare on Linux…
Published by kyle on 14 Jan 2008
For a while now, I’ve been running Kubuntu x64 on this shiny Dell D820 laptop. It runs at quite a high resolution for a laptop (1920×1200), and the Nvidia drivers try to be smart by increasing the font dpi. This has the knock on effect of making the fonts ugly and large. It can be countered with a simple tweak to /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Option "UseEdidDpi" "FALSE"
Option "DPI" "96 x 96"
Once that’s done, save your file, exit X, and restart X. Alternatively you can restart your computer.
Published by kyle on 26 Nov 2007
A while back I mentioned Hadoop as The Next Big Thing. Looks like demand has been high in the intervening months, and the Yahoo Developer Network has recently announced a new blog all about Hadoop. An open source Mapreduce implementation with a scalable, clustered and highly redundant storage system? Yes please… Now you can keep up to date with your favourite RSS reader.
Published by kyle on 09 Sep 2007
Dead or alive? It’s in a sorry state - it was a bit flaky to start with, and now won’t work at all. They only support Ubuntu Dapper, Skype only provide for Ubuntu Feisty - I see a conflict of support interests. They don’t seem to be interested in replying to any emails enquiring about Feisty support too.
Time to move onto another SIP to Skype solution 
Published by kyle on 04 Sep 2007
For a while now it’s been desirable to have one Mediawiki installation, with multiple virtualhost installations using that as a base. There are other ways, but I found this method to suit our situation quite nicely. There are instructions at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_code_layout but they’re old and out of date. A lot of the text has been taken from our documentation, so it may require some imagination.
Published by kyle on 03 Sep 2007
Lately a Howto has appeared, detailing how to set up iSCSI on Linux. I first set up and used iSCSI almost 2 years ago, back when it was a little known buzzword. Microsoft were still on v1 of their free initiator, UNH had theirs, and linux-iscsi seemed to be the most promising and workable initiator around. Now it’s beginning to compete with FC and Netapp kit, Dell are hedging their bets on VM machines on iSCSI backends, and Open-iSCSI rule the roost.
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