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]

Site Moved

 Posted on February 24, 2011

I have just finished moving the site to a new hosting location. &nbsp_place_holder;Still working through minor adjustments. &nbsp_place_holder;Things like re-establishing my theme are high on the priority list.

resolv.conf Options

 Posted on December 8, 2010  (Last modified: February 24, 2011)

I have found the following two resolv.conf options to be extremely useful when standing up AIX systems that are tethered to a Microsoft DNS solution: options timeout:1 options attempts:1&nbsp_place_holder; The timeout option sets the initial timeout for a query to a nameserver. [Read More]

Eclipse Android Icon

 Posted on December 7, 2010  (Last modified: February 24, 2011)

&nbsp_place_holder;I am starting to delve into Andoid application development. &nbsp_place_holder;As such, I &nbsp_place_holder;needed an appropriate application launcher icon to represent my Android-oriented Eclipse IDE environment. &nbsp_place_holder;I took a stock android logo and the eclipse icon. [Read More]