For our company there was a need to do some expansion and we decided to do that with the Dell R200. Since it was just the new version of the PowerEdge 860 ( an other server we have ) I thought it would be fairly easy to install this machine, since I ...

Blog entry - DenRaf - 04/26/2008 - 23:38 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

At our new company we have a dedicated MySQL database machine and we use OTRS for ticketing. The thing is when you use the packages provided by otrs, you end up installing mysql-server on the otrs-machine. And that's just what I didn't want to d ...

Blog entry - DenRaf - 03/08/2008 - 00:35 - 2 comments - 0 attachments

Let's say you have already run some kvm virtual machines, and you just upgraded your virt-manager to a version that supports Qemu/kvm. Wouldn't it be nice that those machines could be monitored by your virt-manager? Of course it is,so here's how t ...

Blog entry - DenRaf - 06/06/2008 - 23:01 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

This is how you can get the O2Micro smart card reader that is used on Dell D820 and my Old Acer Travelmate 6003. This reader is for sure used at allot of other machines, but those are listed here I've tested myself. You can get the tar package her ...

Blog entry - DenRaf - 03/08/2008 - 00:35 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

Today I had to work with both a fedora and an ubuntu machine. The location required setting a proxy. I did on both: export HTTP_PROXY=proxy:port And that just worked fine on my fedora machine, but it didn't on the ubuntu machine. After searchi ...

Blog entry - DenRaf - 04/23/2008 - 20:24 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

I discovered something what meant a major cut in boot time of my portable and a major "Duh" - feeling. chkconfig network off chkconfig NetworkManager on When turning of the network service it doesn't try to connect to a network on boot, while ...

Blog entry - DenRaf - 03/08/2008 - 00:35 - 0 comments - 0 attachments