First a little background…
Why would one want to install Linux on an external USB hard drive instead of setting up a dual-boot type system? Well, for starters, the intended target for this OS is my laptop. My laptop hard drive already has Vista installed and I didn’t feel like using a partition editor to create [...]
Yet again, I seem to be getting a bad initrd image with a Kernel update. On boot, the system will respond with:
mount: cannot mount /dev/root on /sysroot
The solution, as stated in the previous post, is to boot into a known working Kernel, and re-build the initrd image. Create a backup of the original before you [...]
I came in to work this morning and began my usual routine of removing my backpack, setting my cup of coffee down, setting up my laptop, and then “shaking” the mouse to wake up my desktop computer. (Yes, I bring my laptop to work with me even though I have a desktop PC running Fedora [...]
Once you have your virtual environment setup and an OS installed, it is very likely that the system will not perform to its absolute potential. That’s because the “hardware” which VMPlayer and VMWorkstation emulate is not supported by Windows or Linux by default. That’s where VMWare Tools comes into play. VMWare tools supplies all the [...]
Recently, I switched over to Linux as my desktop OS at work. The OS (Fedora) was installed on a dedicated drive and I kept my XP install intact on its own drive, knowing that at some point I may need to boot into Windows to run some application or test a web application in Internet [...]
I just finished a very grueling installation of a nifty little autoresponder called “Yet Another Autoresponder” (YAA.) The software is Perl based and requires only a few modules which can easily be installed or upgraded via CPAN. However, my difficulties in getting this system working were due to YAA not being able to find the [...]
If you have MySQL handle your PHP sessions and are finding that session data is not reliably being read after redirects via PHP’s header function, please read on.
For over a day I had been pulling my hair out trying to figure out why sessions were not sync’ing up after redirects via PHP’s header function. Some [...]
Are you considering using the onboard RAID feature of your SATA controller? Before you dive head-on into this project - there are a few things you should know.
A few weeks ago I wrote that I had been noticing a large number of attempted SSH brute force dictionary attacks on my server. None were successful but I published some ways to protect yourself. This morning at 8am - a would be hacker succeeded in a dictionary attack - what he left behind was very interesting.
Choosing the right distro for a custom embedded Linux system is not easy. Most distros will not install even the most basic elements of the operating system in less that 512MB of space.