I got very bored a couple of nights ago and decided i wanted to play some classic video games, so i dug out an old rpi and installed retropie along with all the atari, nes, snes, and sega mastersystem games i could find. Here are some shots of this: the hardware: Click to enlarge. the … Read More
This article is more for me not to forget. So if you are creating a symlink to a dir: mkdir ‹PATH/TO/LINK› mount -o bind ‹TARGET› ‹LINK› to make it permanent: add mount -o bind ‹TARGET› ‹LINK› to /etc/rc.local
So after writing the previous article about booting multiple distros from one flash drive, i realized that i needed to do some openbsd installs with zero network access. at time of writing i was installing openbsd54 Here are the steps i took to add openbsd install media on my multiboot flash drive first we need … Read More
So work has given me a new shiny Dell System XPS L322X (the ubuntu dev model) which i quickly installed gentoo on (personal preference). When i went to go and paste something using the Cypress two button track pad, it did not work. damn. Here is the fix: first things first, lets make sure that … Read More
so i wrote a little script for dumping some stats to a graphite server. script is located here. all you have to do to get this working: ensure nc is installed ensure vmstat is installed change gserver and gport to matching graphite server and port and cron this to run every minute or so. it … Read More
this is how i got spotify to work on my install of gentoo. YMMV. grab a copy of the deb from here. just make sure to grab one for your respective build (x86 or amd64). at the time of writing, spotify-client_0.9.1.55.gbdd3b79.203-1_amd64.deb was the version available. now lets uncompress the file : ar x file.deb which … Read More
nothing in this post of any relevant value other than to show genoo running both spotify and steam. steam: click image to enlarge spotify: click image to enlarge love me some gentoo….
so i needed to setup 2 mysql servers in a HA setup on CentOS 6, i decided to use keepalived (yum search keepalive). here were the requirements: – 1 virtual ip – both servers had to still replicate from each other but only one can take traffic from the vip – quick failover incase machine … Read More
so for a long time i was wondering what console-kit-daemon was and why were there so many of them running on my machine. example: ono-sendai ~ % ps -eLf | grep console-kit | grep -v grep root 1981 1 1981 0 65 Oct15 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon root 1981 1 1983 0 65 Oct15 ? 00:00:00 … Read More
the problem with buying machines second hand is that you never know what the hell is on them. take for example this error that i got as i was trying to migrate from Grub to Grub 2: /usr/sbin/grub2-bios-setup: warning: Sector 32 is already in use by the program `FlexNet’; avoiding it. This software may cause … Read More