More About the PowerEdge R710More About the PowerEdge R710
I’ve got the R710 (mentioned in my previous post [1]) online. When testing the R710 at home I noticed that sometimes the VGA monitor I was using would start flickering[...]
Category: Linux
systemd-nspawn and Private Networkingsystemd-nspawn and Private Networking
Currently there’s two things I want to do with my PC at the same time, one is watching streaming services like ABC iView (which won’t run from non-Australian IP addresses)[...]
4K Monitors4K Monitors
A couple of years ago a relative who uses a Linux workstation I support bought a 4K (4096*2160 resolution) monitor. That meant that I had to get 4K working, which[...]
KMail Crashing and LIBGLKMail Crashing and LIBGL
One problem I’ve had recently on two systems with NVideo video cards is KMail crashing (SEGV) while reading mail. Sometimes it goes for months without having problems, and then it[...]
WordPress Multisite on DebianWordPress Multisite on Debian
WordPress (a common CMS for blogs) is designed to be copied to a directory that Apache can serve and run by a user with no particular privileges while managing installation[...]
QEMU for ARM ProcessesQEMU for ARM Processes
I’m currently doing some embedded work on ARM systems. Having a virtual ARM environment is of course helpful. For the i586 class embedded systems that I run it’s very easy[...]
More KVM Modules ConfigurationMore KVM Modules Configuration
Last year I blogged about blacklisting a video driver so that KVM virtual machines didn’t go into graphics mode [1]. Now I’ve been working on some other things to make[...]
Video Mode and KVMVideo Mode and KVM
I recently changed my KVM servers to use the kernel command-line parameter nomodeset for the virtual machine kernels so that they don’t try to go into graphics mode. I do[...]
Ethernet Interface Naming With SystemdEthernet Interface Naming With Systemd
Systemd has a new way of specifying names for Ethernet interfaces as documented in systemd.link(5). The Debian package should keep working with the old 70-persistent-net.rules file, but I had a[...]
BTRFS Status April 2014BTRFS Status April 2014
Since my blog post about BTRFS in March [1] not much has changed for me. Until yesterday I was using 3.13 kernels on all my systems and dealing with the[...]