Tag Archives: OpenSolaris

ZFS, Boot Zones and data loss

Posted on July 2, 2009 by Branedy

Note to Self: One must remember not to accidently pull the power cord out of your OpenSolaris server. Somewhere between the sudden power down, and booting into different Boot Zones my MySQL database has lost records and the Apache HTTP … Continue reading →

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Legacy Unix always works

Posted on April 14, 2009 by Branedy

Great, I now have a printer that works, but not due to any fancy new features, and also not due to my brilliance, though it should have. But again I am reminded (via Google) to remember the one thing that … Continue reading →

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Webmin back door

Posted on April 14, 2009 by Branedy

NOTE: Do not accidently drop your own permissions to su to root. {Unless you happen to remember to have Webmin running. } This weekend while trying to get CUPS to print on my DYI-Server I managed to grant myself ‘CUPS … Continue reading →

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A different thing in a real OS.

Posted on April 5, 2009 by Branedy

Through the weekend I believed that I had managed to screw up my OpenSolaris installation. So serious was my suspicion I was planning to erase the disk and reinstall the entire system. The sound system that I’d manage to get … Continue reading →

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No good thing goes unpunished

Posted on April 4, 2009 by Branedy

I just got the home server running on a dynamic dns server, and sure enough, we are already getting spam comments on the wordpress software I installed there. I knew our server wasn’t going to to go unnoticed when both … Continue reading →

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Testing the Home server

Posted on March 29, 2009 by Branedy

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The price of a Green PC server.

Posted on March 25, 2009 by Branedy

I keep calling this DYI project a server, which it is currently doing, Samba server, MySQL server, Apache server FTP server. But beyond this it’s also a desktop server with all the features of your average desktop PC. 2GB of … Continue reading →

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Nature Hates a Vacuum

Posted on March 25, 2009 by Branedy

Yesterday I thought I’d screwed up my USB ports and that would require a motherboard replacement. But in IT a mystery is unacceptable! So when a bit of fiddling and a reboot made the the USB (and attached mouse) revive, … Continue reading →

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Missed A Bullet

Posted on March 24, 2009 by Branedy

I missed a bullet today, while unplugging a usb powered portable drive from my new server I hung the USB ports on OpenSolaris, I though I could have proceeded, the mouse was on a USB port so I was mouseless. … Continue reading →

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Size doesn’t matter, in IT

Posted on March 21, 2009 by Branedy

In the previous post I mentioned that the Intel Atom 330 D945GCLF2 motherboard looks lost in the Minuet 350 case; and even the case is not very large as seen here compaired to a Dell 3100 case and there is … Continue reading →

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Forgotten Rule of IT!

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Branedy

If you happen to read my Blog, you will know that I’ve started a project to build a home server that more or less mimics the sort of server I use at the office. And while I’ve have had the … Continue reading →

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Personal IT server Simulator

Posted on March 16, 2009 by Branedy

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