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Upgraded to ESXi 5.0

Sun, 2012-03-04 00:05 — blairkenn

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  Made the move and upgraded my hypervisors from ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5.0 today.  Boot from USB still works great.

 

How to make time synchronization work across virtual machine suspends.

Fri, 2012-03-02 12:35 — blairkenn

When using Linux under VMware, a guest's system time is affected when it is paused or suspended.  This is because the ntp daemon will give up when the time difference is too great.  I typically do not experience this problem because most of my guests are constantly running on an ESXi server.  My first exposure to this problem was when I started using VMware workstation on my laptop for development instead of the native OS.

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Theme

Sat, 2012-02-04 16:32 — blairkenn

One of these days, I will replace this theme...

Upgrading WCM software.

Fri, 2011-12-02 21:23 — blairkenn

I am upgrading the website this evening.  After the upgrades, I am going to leave things in a temporary theme for a while. Sorry for the mess.

Overcoming SELinux when changing the default MySQL data directory

Sun, 2011-11-20 22:39 — blairkenn

This evening, I chose to install MySQL 5.5 instead of accepting the 5.1 version that shipped with my CentOS 6  Linux distribution.  After dutifully downloading the binaries and successfully installing the RPMs, I received the following error message when starting mysqld:

 

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Goodbye, Ollie

Thu, 2011-11-03 19:33 — blairkenn

Rest in peace Olivia Kennedy a.k.a Ollie.Ollie

 

  1997 - 2011

 

 

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Linux Software RAID-1 Rebuild

Tue, 2011-07-12 22:06 — blairkenn 


Hard DriveWell, I have just received the RMA replacement of my failed Samsung HD204UI 2TB drive.  Now it is time to put the drive back into my Linux server and rebuild the RAID-1 (mirror) array so that the data resumes its highly-available state.  Here are the steps I took:
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Samba Issue, Culprit is Windows 7 HomeGroup

    
  
  

        

    Thu, 2011-07-07 00:34 — blairkenn    

      

  
    
  

    
Well, I have finally taken a few minutes out of a weekend to track down the cause of an annoyance lingering in the syslog of my NAS server.  A file server where I host both NFS and SMB/CIFS resources. The annoying entry in my logs was the following:
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Site Moved

    
  
  

        

    Thu, 2011-02-24 09:44 — blairkenn    

      

  
    
  

    
I have just finished moving the site to a new hosting location.  Still working through minor adjustments.  Things like re-establishing my theme are high on the priority list.
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resolv.conf Options

    
  
  

        

    Wed, 2010-12-08 16:48 — blairkenn    

      

  
    
  

    
I have found the following two resolv.conf options to be extremely usefulAIX logo when standing up AIX systems that are tethered to a Microsoft DNS solution:
options timeout:1
 options attempts:1 
The timeout option sets the initial timeout for a query to a nameserver. By default this is 5 seconds in AIX 6.1.
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