Category Archives: System Administration
Printing from Windows 7 to a Mac
Use the MS Publisher Color Printer driver and connect via LPR/LPD.
Upgrading to Ubuntu 11.10
When I upgraded to 11.04, I stuck with the Ubuntu Classic desktop. With 11.10, that didn’t look feasible anymore, so I bit the bullet to try and learn to cope with Unity. After the install, my first issues were: How … Continue reading
NFSv4
At some point, my Ubuntu desktop started using NFSv4 to connect to my Solaris file server. The visible symptom caused by this switch was all files showing up as owned by 4294967294:4294967294. The fix turned out to be to edit … Continue reading
After upgrading to Ubuntu 11.04, rxvt-unicode no longer worked with screen, dselect, aptitude, etc. Solution: install ncurses-term.
Zones on a Single Server, revisited
TL;DR: nginx in a zone, replacing apache as the reverse proxy. Then, one web app per zone, PHP or Python. Broadly, I am happy with Solaris Zones, used as I previously laid out in my first post on the topic. … Continue reading
Services to Disable on New Zones
Update: This list is being moved to a script on github. See the zone_service_cleanup.sh script here. A new zone copies the base system in a lot of areas, including services. Thus, new zones can often be found running CDE. To … Continue reading
Virtual Networking between Zones
When I first started using zones on Solaris, I ran into networking difficulty. I didn’t want private zone traffic polluting the network at the ISP, and I didn’t need any of the zones to be directly exposed (all traffic could … Continue reading
HTPC
Back in September, I posted about evaluating an Intel D510MO board for HTPC applications, and determined that it wasn’t good enough. Now, I am trying again with an Atom 330 / ION motherboard. This is a slower CPU, but a … Continue reading
How I Setup Ubuntu 10.10
I’ve found myself doing this 3 times in the last month. I thought I would write up what I do so that I don’t have to try to remember the next time I need to do this (which probably won’t … Continue reading
πp-v2, the new Plan 9 file protocol
The symbol is Pi. I point that out since it doesn’t render very nicely in my web browser. The URL for the paper is: http://proness.kix.in/misc/%CF%80p-v2.pdf Yes, they stuck the symbol into the file name as well. Plan9 people seem to … Continue reading
