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by Martin @ 12:17 28 March 2010
Upgraded snoer to Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin.
by Martin @ 15:00 17 May 2012
Upgrading dop to Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot.
Dual screen works great, the "menubar" has moved to the far left of my left monitor (instead of the left of my right monitor as it was before) which is all great. But weirdly enough my space themed wallpapers are gone! Now trying to find if I can get pictures from a 500px.com rss feed or something.
by Martin @ 21:09 21 November 2011
I want to work out more and play more WoW, so why not combine the two?
Currently, snoer is used as a mediaplayer/streamer with XBMC installed, but it has a 80GB HDD, so if I make it dual-boot and resize XBMC to 30GB, the remaining 50GB should be enough for Ubuntu 11.10 (ca. 5GB?) and WoW (25GB on my desktop at the moment).
Then I just tape a spare keyboard to my hometrainer and I should be ready to grind in both RL and WoW at the same time!
by Martin @ 16:46 7 November 2011
Just updated broek to Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot. As usual, I always give it some time before upgrading, and this time I upgraded my server first. No strange problems so far, so I'll probably upgrade Dop soon.
by Martin @ 17:42 4 November 2011
After my usual lull after a new Ubuntu release, waiting for people to scream their newly updated machines where melting MELTING!!!, yesterday I felt comfortable to upgrade to Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal.
Upgrade went pretty well, but as expected the new Unity desktop manager made me feel like when I was using linux for the first time.
by Martin @ 21:13 27 May 2011
I've replaced the CMOS battery. Hopefully this will also resolve disk errors while booting my root partition. I also wonder why BIOS has not yet traded CMOS for persistent flash memory.
by Martin @ 11:49 3 April 2011
While booting (BIOS went fine), I just got:
Errors were found while checking the disk drive for /
Press F to attempt to fix errors, I to ignore, S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery.
After pressing F, it checked my drive and rebooted the system, again presenting the dialog above. Then I pressed I, it continued correctly and I backuped my files.
It might still be a CMOS battery problem.
The fix could range from anything from checking the disk http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1535761
to replacing the drive http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1684746
by Martin @ 8:34 23 March 2011
Ready for some quality time with my PC, to my unpleasant surprise I get an error message while booting that the BIOS settings were lost. After restoring it, and rebooting, GRUB returns an error. It seems that my (now primary) old HDD still had grub on the MBR. So I configured my newest disk as primary HDD and it booted again. It also only detects 3100 MB of RAM, while I have 6 GB installed. Maybe a setting to.
What's wrong here? CMOS battery dead?
update: 'Twas a BIOS setting: enabling "memory remap feature" (optimizing for 64-bit OS), the full 6 GB RAM is detected.
by Martin @ 16:30 20 March 2011
Reinstalling broek with Ubuntu 10.10, main reason: the NIC driver is outdated so it won't run at gigabit speed. It worked pretty good otherwise!
update: first problem after Ubuntu installation: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1607778 (ignoring that for now)
Installed webmin
Configured nfs share (tested) and samba share (not yet tested). Sustained 400mbit upload, so NIC is working better than before (only 100mbit).
Added wget cron job to update status in Drupal.
Added notification for package updates.
In the future: add reverse proxy?
by Martin @ 11:15 5 March 2011