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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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    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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Eclipse Android Icon

    
  
  

        

    Tue, 2010-12-07 09:24 — blairkenn    

      

  
    
  

    
 I am starting to delve into Andoid application development.  As such, I  needed an appropriate application launcher icon to represent my Android-oriented Eclipse IDE environment.  I took a stock android logo and the eclipse icon.xpm from my base IDE directory and stirred them together with GIMP.  It still needs some clean-up work, but here is what I came up with.
Eclipse-Android Icon
This is a 48x48 Linux .xpm icon resource.
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This is a test posting

    
  
  

        

    Sat, 2010-12-04 21:10 — blairkenn    

      

  
    
  

    
Testing the use of the Scribefire Firefox extension for blogging.
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Android Apps

    
  
  

        

    Thu, 2010-12-02 11:57 — blairkenn    

      

  
    
  

    
 Andoid
There are some cool new apps now available in the Android marketplace:
 
Angry Birds Seasons - holiday edition of Angry Birds.  A Christmas advent-style calendar set of levels plus the halloween edition
Google Reader - a native Google Reader Android application...finally.
Winamp - famed media player with wifi sync
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