April 22nd, 2009
I fished this out of an old blog of mine. It still generates hits (believe it or not) after it’s original posting on September 10, 2006. I lost the images associated with the post, but was able to recover the body.
Last night I noticed that my C: drive (Windows 2000) was getting a little cluttered. So instead of going through and deleting temporary internet files and the Temp folders myself, I decided to run Windows Cleanup. While I was at it, I decided compressing some old files couldn’t hurt anything either. Bad choice.
BOOTMGR is compressed.
Press ctrl+alt+del to restart.
At least this error occurs without data loss. Bootloader problems are pretty easy to fix, especially the Windows 2000+ bootloader.
April 22nd, 2009
I have a Debian server sitting in my garage, and I just updated my wireless router. Once upon a time I used WEP for all my wireless security needs. Yes, it was rather simple of me, but it did its job. At the time I had FiOS and felt worldly enough to share to those deserving (no, I don’t have FiOS anymore).
Today I have a more realistic view. I’m finally migrating to WPA. But what about that server in my garage? It literally have one wire coming from it, and that’s the power cord. It uses a cheap wireless card I picked up from Best Buy for a song (yes, it is a WG311 compatible card, how did you know?). The antenna sticks out from the back and picks up whatever signal it can find.
Since there is no monitor attached, I shut it down (correctly, halt -p and all) to move it inside. I hooked it up to a monitor and keyboard, booted it up, watched the out-of-date kernel spit out information that still makes me cringe. Finally, I logged in and tried to figure out how to make this darn old machine use WPA.
I use ndiswrapper to use Windows drivers on my Linux box. Why? Excellent question. Because I have to. Well, I don’t have to, but I want a quick-and-dirty solution, and ndiswrapper provides just such an option!
On to WPA. In this case, Google is my friend.
I came across this article at Ubuntu Portal. Since I run Debian, it wasn’t a stretch to get things going. It was helpful enough for a post. So if you’re in the same situation, check it out.
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April 15th, 2009
I moved over the weekend. Moving is a lot of work! I’ll get back to posting soon. In the mean time, wish [...]
April 6th, 2009
I decided it would be fun to try Boot Camp for Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.6. No, I wasn’t trying to install Windows. I like Linux much better. But I digress.
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I launched Boot Camp Assistant, repartitioned my drive, did what I felt needed to be done, had my fun, and got tired of [...]
April 4th, 2009
Linux server administration requires shell access. It’s just that simple. Sure, you can use FTP for some things, and web-based administration (like cPanel or Plesk) works for other things; but you can’t call yourself an administrator without using a good-old-fashion command line interface.
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April 3rd, 2009
The title says it all. It’s Friday and I’m going out to do something fun. You should do [...]
April 3rd, 2009
So you want to know about svn+ssh, eh? Maybe some basics will help first. I’ll try to (briefly) explain what SVN is, why you use it, and why you want to let go of your 10-foot poll when working with SVN and SSH combined.
April 2nd, 2009
This is a note worthy day! I received my first comment SPAM! Exciting, no? Well, ok, not really. But it does mean that search engines are returning my posts. [...]