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Adding a new disk to an existing LVM Volume 4 Jul 2013 | 06:44 am
In a previous post, I described how to build an LVM based NAS using Ubuntu. Now that NAS is full and I want to add new drive. The existing Volume Group consisted of 2 x 2TB hard drives and I'm adding...
Partition a hard drive with 4096 byte sectors 4 Jul 2013 | 04:31 am
Astrotek AT-CPES6A 4 Jul 2013 | 03:54 am
Just bought an el-cheapo Astrotek AT-CPES6A PCI-E SATA card and am pleased to say I just plugged it in to my Ubuntu 13.04 box and it worked straight away without trouble. No need to install drivers o...
Fix Window Manager Crash When Switching Desktops 15 Jun 2013 | 10:49 am
There is a bug that causes the window manager to crash if you configure multiple desktops in Gnome fallback with effects turned on Selecting a desktop will leave you with just the wallpaper showing a...
Install and Use Nemo as default file manager in Ubuntu 15 Jun 2013 | 07:03 am
After I upgraded to Mint 15 I had a bunch of issues on both my machines. Considering I had resorted to using Gnome fallback session instead of Mate or Cinnamon anyway I decided to reinstall Ubuntu whi...
Adding a PPA 15 Jun 2013 | 06:53 am
I'll use the Handbrake video encoder in this example but it will work for any PPA providing you have the correct id string. In this case that is "ppa:stebbins/handbrake-releases" Add the PPA to your ...
ZFS on Ubuntu 14 Apr 2013 | 05:13 am
Some time back I wrote an article describing how to set up ZFS on FreeBSD. Well, now that ZFS on Linux has been declared "production ready" I'm going to go ahead and install it on my 12.10 "Quantal" ...
ZFS on Ubuntu 14 Apr 2013 | 05:13 am
Some time back I wrote an article describing how to set up ZFS on FreeBSD. Well, now that ZFS on Linux has been declared "production ready" I'm going to go ahead and install it on my 12.10 "Quantal" ...
Disabling XML Validation in Eclipse 4 Juno 21 Mar 2013 | 01:45 pm
It seems that every time I set up a project in Eclipse PDT I run up against the problem of a bunch XML errors being generated from deep inside some third party library somewhere. Searching Google sho...
Disabling XML Validation in Eclipse 4 Juno 21 Mar 2013 | 01:45 pm
It seems that every time I set up a project in Eclipse PDT I run up against the problem of a bunch XML errors being generated from deep inside some third party library somewhere. Searching Google sho...