Brightness keys on Linux Mint for Acer E3-111
Enabling brightness control is moderately easy (I’m pretty sure they worked out of the box on slackware). Go to https://github.com/codingtony/acer-brightness-linux-acpi and follow the instructions....
View ArticleAdding a form with autocalculated fields in squarespace
I had to build a form on a squarespace hosted site that has to auto-calculate a couple of fields and also do field validation and offer the option to email the whole calculation to a visitor chosen...
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pfSense home router using the PC Engines APU1D4
My old home router based on a sandy bridge dual core celeron and a gigabyte motherboard got “stolen” by my wife to use as a desktop as her old laptop was getting pretty slow. I ran for a while Tomato...
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Intel RST RAID Non-RAID Disk after BIOS update
So, having nothing better to do and for no good reason I decided to update my workstation’s BIOS to the latest version released by Gigabyte. Since ignoring the “If it works don’t fix it” mantra is...
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Verify SMART details for members of an Intel RST RAID volume
Sooo, Be it because of the BIOS update to a beta or because of my drives but my RAID10 keeps failing. I documented before how to repair such a broken array but I didn’t want to go ahead with it too...
View ArticleCreating new zfs pool mixing previously used drives
I am building a new homelab for myself using Intel NUCs. I need a NAS so I can test live migration and I was set to buy 2 bay synology. But when a 140$ HP Gen8 Microserver was on offer I couldn’t say...
View ArticleUse Vagrant on Windows with Ansible under Cygwin
If due to some reason you have to run vagrant under windows and plan on using Ansible you will need a couple of wrappers. #wrap_githubgist20f8aca03b72069998b3 .gist-data {max-height: 100%;} Not Found...
View ArticleAIX git SSL woes
Oh joy and happiness I have to admin AIX boxes. One of the first things I hit was using git to clone some stuff from github erroring out with: SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer...
View ArticleErrors in mail.log from nagios check_ssmtp
I got my nagios server banned by fail2ban because of errors in the postfix mail.log log. I know that I can simply whitelist the nagios server but I prefer it working perfectly. Checking the logs I...
View ArticleOracle complains about long identifier on simple operations.
Soo, I’m going head first into the oracle db world. I was trying to create an spfile from the pfile and of course it didn’t work: 12345SQL> CREATE spfile FROM...
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