Theme

One of these days, I will replace this theme…

Upgrading WCM software.

I am upgrading the website this evening. &nbsp_place_holder;After the upgrades, I am going to leave things in a temporary theme for a while. Sorry for the mess.

Workstation Tools List

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

![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/MySQL.svg/489px- MySQL.svg.png) 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]

Linux Software RAID-1 Rebuild

![Hard Drive](http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/adding-a-hard- disk-1-1.jpg)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

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

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.