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iSCSI quick-start guide.

September 14th, 2009 Chris Ganderton No comments

I had to configure an iSCSI target for testing purposes, the steps I followed are below. This assumes that you have the tgtadm software installed, and that you are making use of LVM. 1. create the backing volume in lvm we have one volume group, called vg01, if you want to see what volume groups [...]

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xen vcpu pinning defaults aren’t ideal

September 1st, 2009 Chris Ganderton No comments

I noticed an oddity the other day with a xen Domain0 host we have. There’s a cron scripted job that verifies the RPM database and the RPM’s that are installed on the system, for some reason this job failed, but kept the process open, and kept spinning around trying to do it’s job. Now, I [...]

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removing blank newlines using sed.

February 17th, 2008 Chris Ganderton 1 comment

Most people won’t find this paticularly useful, but as I’m prone to forget things: sed -e ‘/^$/d’ will delete blank newlines from whatever it’s input is. Tags: geek, Linux, stuff

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TanTan flickr photo gallery broken after upgrade to WordPress 2.3

October 27th, 2007 Chris Ganderton No comments

So I realised that the admin part of the Flickr Photo gallery plugin I use (which is at http://www.thefraggle.com/flickr/) was a bit broken after upgrading wordpress to v2.3. It appeared to work with the configuration I had set previously. However, when on the options page for the plugin, it was complaining of not being able [...]

upgrading to wordpress 2.3

October 22nd, 2007 Chris Ganderton No comments

This Was quite an easy upgrade really, and prompted me to split off my different website content stuff a bit differently. The upgrade went as expected and so far doesn’t seem to have broken anything. The big win for me though is the new native tags feature. I’d tried messing about in previous releases with [...]

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