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Its been a busy summer for me, I haven’t really had much time to opine on this blog about anything interesting.
mplayer and ubuntu 14.10.. Ugh
So after building the new HTPC and installing mplayer, I noticed Mplayer2 was installed, this lead to some problems, including horrible video pixelation. After digging around the forums I finally ran across a write up from Andrew Strong over at … Continue reading
Another year, another LUG.
Well it’s been another year, and another Lustre User Group meeting. There were many interesting discussions which took place. Though in general I found the most useful session to be after the LUG was completed. The developer meeting, for me … Continue reading
Windows 7 dropping connections to SMB services regularly
One thing that’s been constantly bugging me, as well as my wife is the fact that in general, Samba (SMB) connectivity from our Windows 7 machines is spotty at best. In general we can connect, and transfer data to and … Continue reading
Juniper NCSVC and Linux 4.0 RC6
As an update to my earlier post Juniper NCSVC and Linux 3.19 I can confirm that the 4.0 RC6 kernel resolves the connectivity issues I was experiencing earlier. Likely earlier kernels in the 4.0 line have fixed this issue as … Continue reading
Home depot and Lutron Maestro® dimmers….
So recently I decided to add one of these dimmers to my kitchen lighting, which is on a standard 3-way (double switch) circuit. The folks at home depot, as well as all of the available documentation (including the box it … Continue reading
Getting the Nvidia distribution drivers installed with Ubuntu 14.10 and possibly later
So do to the fact that my HTPC died, and I didn’t want to restore the OS from a backup, I opted instead to install a fresh (and reasonably modern) version of Kubuntu. Once installed I quickly ran into problems … Continue reading
My HTPC finally died…
So over the last few years I’ve been a very simple HTPC setup. It consisted of an Intel E4500, 4GB ram system with a GTX 780 Nvidia card running Kubuntu Linux 12.04. For storage I booted off a simple USB … Continue reading
My little cluster…
So recently I’ve put together a test cluster for testing Lustre (www.lustre.org), which is a file system technology that I work directly on in my day job. The cluster is a bit interesting as it’s a 5 node, dual E5540, … Continue reading
Juniper NCSVC and Linux 3.19
So interestingly I noticed that as soon as I upgraded to the 3.19 kernel (RC5 in my case) I was no longer able to connect to any internal machines on my corporate VPN. Interestingly my private OpenVPN services still all … Continue reading