Category Archives: Computer

Jul '11 28

UnMount fs – file system busy & mkfs Inodes

by Brin in Computer, Linux | Comments Off on UnMount fs – file system busy & mkfs Inodes

While trying to resize a filesystem, I found that umount failed with busy while fuser and lsof didnt display any files open, found a post the suggest the following fuser -vm /var To create a ext4 fs with more Inodes … Continue reading →

Feb '11 07

Minecraft creating Circles and updates

by Brin in Games | Comments Off on Minecraft creating Circles and updates

Crafting circles in Minecraft is pretty hard, due to block size etc. the following lists some info on circles, spheres, texture packs and mods. Perfect Sphere and some Blueprints A Python program to show circles in Ascii Texture Pack List … Continue reading →

Jan '11 24

Linix Conf 09

by Brin in Conference, Linux | Comments Off on Linix Conf 09

Went to see Andrew Bartlet speak about AD and Samba4, some interesting stuffwill have to check this out and do a test setup for Andrew. Spoke with him on the way back from the Professional Delegates Night, and got his … Continue reading →

Jan '11 24

Linux Conf 2011

by Brin in Conference, Linux | Comments Off on Linux Conf 2011

Attended Linux conf again this year, here are some projects that interested me Bdale’s Greenhouse Ardino shield I-Plugpower point monitoring and managment (Home automation) Arduino Shield List Wihat Arduino and wifly shield and gps shield for war driving PCB manufacture … Continue reading →

Dec '10 17

Purge objects from squid

by Brin in Computer, Linux | Comments Off on Purge objects from squid

To purge objects from squid cache there are a few methods, if you know the exact URL (file) add “acl purge method PURGE” and “http_access allow purge localhost” squidclient -m PURGE http://some.site.com/file.html to purge a subset use the purge utility … Continue reading →

Nov '10 08

Backup Linux Box

by Brin in Computer, Linux | Comments Off on Backup Linux Box

When creating a second Backup box, install minimal system, use the dpkg –get/set-selctions and apt-get dselect-upgrade use cp -a to copy the following folders/files; NOTE: Avoid copying the whole folder, as fstab / passwd / udev etc. may be different … Continue reading →

Oct '10 05

Medal of Honor (MoH): Initial Impressions

by Brin in Computer, Games | Comments Off on Medal of Honor (MoH): Initial Impressions

Played the MoH Beta today, seems quite good, very CoD like, people running around like headless chooks, Rambo style seems to work well, Run in pray and spray style. Guns seem balanced well, dont have to use a full clip … Continue reading →

Sep '10 29

Backporting Ubuntu packages

by Brin in Computer, Linux | Comments Off on Backporting Ubuntu packages

I needed to backport squid to an older version of Ubuntu (Hardy), he’ere the proceedure with pbuilder. sudo apt-get install pbuilder debootstrap devscripts fakeroot po4a sudo apt-get install  build-essential libldap2-dev libdb-dev sharutils dpatch cdbs libsasl2-dev debhelper libcppunit-dev libkrb5-dev comerr-dev (may … Continue reading →