posted by steve | Category: Useful Items That I Forget

If VMware Workstation isn’t able to find the headers for the running kernel, maybe: apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` and then tell the vmware installer to look in: /lib/modules/–version–/build/include/

posted by steve | Category: Useful Items That I Forget

As part of my talk at the O’Reilly OSCON I had hoped to use examples from some off-site servers. Unfortunately the Internet connection to those servers went down and I had the only key to the server room with me in Portland! I have a Nagios set up for the servers along with remote power control. When Nagios notices that certain things are unreachable it fires scripts which begin the process of troubleshooting and resetting [...Read more...]

posted by steve | Category: Random Rants | 1 Comment »

I have a couple partitions on my laptop, a Microsoft Windows XP and an Ubuntu Linux. The Windows portition has been locking up fairly regularly. When I say locking up I mean hard lock where I lose mouse, keyboard, everything. It never comes back. The only way to get it back is to hold the power button to power the unit down. Naturally, the Linux side doesn’t have any of these behaviors which leads me [...Read more...]