We recently started monitoring our Synology NAS with CloudRadar.io (monitoring software) and we were getting the following alert… After SSHing into the NAS and running cat /proc/mdstat I noticed MD0 and MD1 had missing disks. Those arrays are were not created by me. They appear to come from the factory and contain recovery data for…
Category: Linux
1Password in Linux
I’ve been using 1Password for my password needs and love it. The one thing that is frustrating is they don’t have a client for Linux. I was able to work around this by using their 1Password Anywhere feature. To do this I opened Chrome and logged into www.dropbox.com. Remember to check the Remember me checkbox. Once…
Scrolling with TrackPoint in Ubuntu 10.04
My Thinkpad X300 is a great machine and everything in Ubuntu 10.04 works natively except for scrolling with the TrackPoint. I’ve gotten it working but it never sticks after putting the laptop to sleep. Below are the instructions modified for a Thinkpad X300. 1. Install gpointing-device-settings Open terminal and type sudo apt-get install gpointing-device-settings 2….
CentOS 6
I noticed CentOS 6 is out. I downloaded CentOS-6.0-i386-netinstall.iso. So far it’s working flawlessly with Virtualbox. For those that don’t have the netinstall URLs they are… 32 bit: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/i386/ 64 bit: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/x86_64/
VolumeDrive VPS stats
CPU: 2 Ghz Dedicated CPU RAM: 1 GB Dedicated Memory HD: 50 GB Hard Drive Space BW: 2000 GB Transfer Per Month IP: 1 Public IP Address #less /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 44 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz stepping : 2 cpu…
Remove an IP Address from denyhosts
I recently setup a VPS and installed Denyhosts. I must have entered an incorrect password at some point cause I couldn’t SSH into my server. After removing my IP from /etc/hosts.deny I could log in once but after that I was added to the hosts.deny file again. To completely remove an IP address from Denyhosts…
Fixing Full Screen Flash in Ubuntu 10.10
If you have Ubuntu 10.10, Intel Graphics and can’t view full screen flash videos from Youtube, Hulu, or any other site this fix might help… sudo mkdir /etc/adobe sudo su sudo echo \”OverrideGPUValidation = 1\” >> /etc/adobe/mms.cfg
Silverlight in Ubuntu 10.04
Moonlight is an open source implementation of Microsoft Silverlight for Unix systems. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS already has it in the repository. sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install libmoon moonlight-plugin-mozilla moonlight-plugin-core or you can go to their website http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/ and install the Chrome extension or Firefox plug-in. You’ll need to restart your browser for…
Connecting to a Windows PPTP VPN from Ubuntu 10.04
If you’d like to connect to a Windows PPTP VPN here is a howto to make it happen. You need to have Ubuntu 10.04 if not you need to apt-get some packages that are not installed by default. Click ‘System’ -> ‘Preferences’ -> ‘Network Connections’ Click the ‘VPN’ tab Leave ‘Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP)’ selected…