Category: Manual

Death of NBN Predicted!

Just now Bevan Slattery (ex PIPE) said the following in the AusNOG Mailing List: http://lists.ausnog.net/pipermail/ausnog/2010-November/009024.html —— From: Bevan Slattery Sent: Thursday, 18 November 2010 10:04 AM To: [removed] Subject: The Death of NBN 2.0 Guys, I am going to make a big call and suggest you mark down the 18th November, 2010 in your calendar.  [...]

Saturday November 20th, 2010 in Arsehats, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, It's Just Business, Loons Ahoy!, Manual, Tech, West Wing | No Comments »

Good OpenVPN Howto & Info sites

http://www.throx.net/2008/04/13/openvpn-and-centos-5-installation-and-configuration-guide/

Saturday October 2nd, 2010 in Manual | No Comments »

Forgotten/Reset mySQL Root Password

sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop sudo mysqld –skip-grant-tables & mysql mysql> use mysql; mysql> INSERT INTO user VALUES (‘localhost’,’root’,password(‘newpassword’),’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,”,”,”,”,0,0,0,0); mysql> INSERT INTO user VALUES (’127.0.0.1′,’root’,password(‘newpassword’),’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,”,”,”,”,0,0,0,0); mysql> INSERT INTO user VALUES (‘the-hostname’,’root’,password(‘newpassword’),’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,’Y’,”,”,”,”,0,0,0,0); mysql>flush privileges; mysql>quit sudo killall mysqld sudo /etc/init.d/mysql start

Thursday July 15th, 2010 in Manual | No Comments »

Remus-fu with DRBD, OCFS2 on Debian with No Redhat Clustering

My earlier blog post at http://www.loonjuice.com/2010/06/13/remus-fu-with-drbd-gfs2-redhat-clustering-on-debian/ described using Xen Remus with shared disk via Redhat Cluster & Redhat’s GFS2 on a dual-primary DRBD device between two Xen Remus Hypervisors. But I found that the overhead & workload of managing a Redhat Cluster between the 2 x Xen Hypervisors to be excessive & the failure/recovery modes [...]

Sunday June 13th, 2010 in Geeking, It's Just Business, Manual, So Say We All!, Tech | No Comments »

Remus-fu with DRBD, GFS2 & Redhat Cluster on Debian

Refer to http://www.loonjuice.com/2010/06/06/remus-fu to get Debian & Xen with Remus installed, configured & running. Then, change the disk of the VM to use an image location being on a GFS2 mounted, DRBD distributed, clustered file system! (eg used below is /usr/gfs0 ) Current Xen 4.1-unstable includes Remus & uses/patches the 2.6.31.13 Linux kernel. Build & [...]

Sunday June 13th, 2010 in Geeking, It's Just Business, Manual, So Say We All!, Tech | 1 Comment »

Authors that Tweet & whose Books I Read

@wilw @scalzi Postsingular author = Rudy Rucker! @charliestross (nic?)

Tuesday May 4th, 2010 in Geeking, Godless, Manual, So Say We All! | No Comments »

Found DRBD to be a breeze to d…

Found DRBD to be a breeze to deploy to my latest Xen 4.1 + Linux 2.6.31 HA Cluster. Performance is “outstanding”. drbd.org #ftw #opensource Download from drbd.org the 8.3.7 via http://oss.linbit.com/drbd/8.3/drbd-8.3.7.tar.gz Follow their Doco at http://www.drbd.org/docs/about/, which results in the following commands: tar xzvf drbd-8.3.7.tar.gz ls -altr /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build cd drbd-8.3.7 ./configure –with-km make KDIR=/lib/modules/`uname [...]

Tuesday May 4th, 2010 in Geeking, It's Just Business, Manual, Tech, Tweeted | No Comments »

Oh dear, Conroy really can’t l…

Oh dear, Conroy really can’t lie straight in bed! “Reality calling Conroy, come in Conroy, we’re loosing you..” http://bit.ly/9a7q03 #Labor

Wednesday April 7th, 2010 in Arsehats, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Dumb Monkeys, Loons Ahoy!, Manual, Right Wing, Tools, Tweeted | No Comments »

Cabinet minister responded to …

Cabinet minister responded to Conroy: “With internet censorship you won’t need a national broadband network.” http://bit.ly/90wwwi #Labor

Wednesday April 7th, 2010 in Arsehats, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Dumb Monkeys, Loons Ahoy!, Manual, Right Wing, Tools, Tweeted | No Comments »

Conroy shows his stripes & bec…

Conroy shows his stripes & becomes a stupid #Labor bully when things are patently not going his way. http://bit.ly/9DSPQe #openinternet

Thursday April 1st, 2010 in Arsehats, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Dumb Monkeys, Loons Ahoy!, Manual, Right Wing, Tools, Tweeted | No Comments »