March 25, 2010 Weirdest Linux command ever This morning I had to run possibly the most bizzare Linux command ever whilst stripping down a CentOS server: yum remove troursers That really brightened up my day and made me smile. 🙂 Categories Red Hat and CentOS Comments: 0
March 18, 2010 Activity Monitor in Snow Leopard If you’re anything like me, then you like to keep your computer nice and neat and organised; this includes sorting all of my applications into categories so that they don’t clutter the place up in one big list. In Mac OS X 10.6 (aka Snow Leopard), this presents a bit of a problem as Activity Monitor can no long be... Categories Mac OS X Comments: 0
March 15, 2010 E-mail notifications from yum-updatesd After wrestling with yum-updatesd in a rather confused manner for some time, I finally discovered why it wasn’t e-mailing me notifications of updates; it needs the dbus service (messagebus) to be running, even if you are not using emit_via=dbus and with dbus_listener=false. With the messagebus service running so that yum-updatesd could connect to the dbus service it didn’t need to... Categories Red Hat and CentOS Comments: 0
October 15, 2009 Windows Server 2008 and Adaptec 1430SA Drivers for Adaptec’s 1430SA controller aren’t included with Windows Server 2008 for some reason best known to Microsoft. Although you can download the drivers from the Adaptec site, this doesn’t really help you if you are trying to install Windows onto the RAID controller itself… After a bit of fiddling, I managed to get the drivers onto an ISO that... Categories Drivers and firmware/Windows Comments: 0
