Workstation Tools List

 Posted on November 25, 2011

I recently took to the streets as part of the annual Black Friday ritual. &nbsp_place_holder;As I was perusing one of the big box electronics stores, I ran across an HP laptop with a core i7 processor, a 9-cell battery, and a 17. [Read More]

Overcoming SELinux when changing the default MySQL data directory

 Posted on November 20, 2011  (Last modified: November 21, 2011)

This evening, I chose to install MySQL 5.5 instead of accepting the 5.1 version that&nbsp_place_holder;shipped with my CentOS 6 &nbsp_place_holder;Linux distribution. &nbsp_place_holder;After dutifully downloading the binaries and successfully installing the RPMs, I received the following error message when starting mysqld: [Read More]

Goodbye, Ollie

 Posted on November 3, 2011  (Last modified: December 2, 2011)

Rest in peace Olivia Kennedy a.k.a Ollie.Ollie

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Linux Software RAID-1 Rebuild

 Posted on July 12, 2011  (Last modified: July 13, 2011)

Well, I have just received the RMA replacement of my failed Samsung HD204UI 2TB drive.&nbsp_place_holder; Now it is time to put the drive back into my Linux server and rebuild the RAID-1 (mirror) array so that the data resumes its&nbsp_place_holder;highly-available state. [Read More]

Samba Issue, Culprit is Windows 7 HomeGroup

 Posted on July 7, 2011

Well, I have finally taken a few minutes out of a weekend to track downthe cause of an annoyance lingering in the syslog of my NAS server. A file server where I host both NFS and SMB/CIFS resources. [Read More]