Author Archives: Linus Nordin

XBMC on Ubuntu 12.04 with rar support

How to install xbmc from team xbmc which supports reading from rar archives

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Linux Rescan SCSI bus to add/remove a SCSI device without rebooting server

FC (Fibre Channel) For other scsi attached storage: To add a single device: Replace HBTL and # with actual values as per your setup. For example, if you added a new disk to a Linux VM in VMware, just run … Continue reading

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Removing specific Facebook events from my HTC Sense Calendar

This will keep your FaceBook calendar but just remove those annoying events that clutter your Android calendar Open your Calendar Find & tap on the event that you want to delete Long-Press the Menu button until the keyboard shows Tap … Continue reading

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Debian on HP DL380 etc. Servers?

Netinstall, installing as usual, and then, fail! No network! Of course, it turns out that the needed Broadcom NetXtreme II driver (bnx2) is in the non-free repository, aka not included on the installations cd’s After googleing around, finding all those … Continue reading

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Monitor connectivity

On one of my boxes, i started to get some connectivity drops, so wanted a way to monitor and alert me when it happened. Found a script called watchping which seems nice, installed it and hope it fits my needs, … Continue reading

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MySQL sort order with null values last

If you wanna sort a column which includes null values and want them last, try this:

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Samba share on AIX with AD auth

If i knew all the problems it would cause, i would have installed a Linux VM to run it on Anyway, needed to setup a temporary storage for a win7 migration project, and the SAN with most free space only … Continue reading

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Human readable dmesg timestamp

Needed a way to read the output of dmesg a little easier, as it outputs the time in seconds since boot

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LED Cube

Cool cube! I just have to build one of those! But i think i want more led’s, 10x10x10 would be nice :)

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Another cerificate to the list

Had to update myself as the old certificates was about to expire, finished with 91%, pretty happy with the result! But why on earth does the test include answers with spelling errors, i doubt i would be a bad sysadm … Continue reading

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