If you, as me, have a very long password for your wlan, it’s tiresome to give out the password to random guests who need to connect. Easy solution: Go to this web page and choose Wifi Network. Then fill in your ssid, password and type of encryptio…
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How to change memory card on an Android-phone
Many upgrade their memory cards in their Android phones to a bigger one, and as many of those I thought it was just to insert the new one, and copy back all the data. For many reasons, that is not just so easy: 1) Your old card most likely contain…
The stress of disk failure
A few weeks ago my ZFS raid containing 12 1.5tb Western Digital green drives was degraded due to a drive failure. As I have a hot spare added to the raid as well, the raid was quickly rebuilt and has been working fine through the problems and afte…
Veistandard
Litt senere kom det et 110 *opphevet*-skilt, og jeg måtte ty til GPS’en for å skjønne at det betyr 130. I løpet av uken kjørte vi Danmark på kryss og tvers, og var også en svipptur innom Tyskland. Må si at veiene, både på motorveiene og i mer gris…
Ubuntu 11.04 and workspaces
A little bit difficult to find, so this is more of a “note to self”. How to change number of workspaces in Ubuntu: 1) Open a Terminal. 2) To change the number of rows, type the following command, changing the final number to the number you wish. P…
Microsoft Backup – Humoungous System Image
I have been using Windows Backup to backup my windows machine to my server. Suddenly I noticed that it took a very long time to run, and that the output files were humoungus! After researching this a bit, I found that the system image it took incl…
XBMC + Windows + MySQL db backend
Have been planning for quite a while to change my xbmc-setup at home to use a MySQL-database as backend for it’s library. This makes it so that everything is in sync between several xbmc-instances you might have at home, like which episodes you ha…
HP “Support”?
I have tried to add my printer to the new fancy service Google Cloud Print, which according to the website should support my printer directly through HP ePrint. But, no go… Google only comes with an error: “Could not get printer information from…
Oracle’s incompetent patch-handling
My last post was about how Oracle decided to move smb.conf and the private-dir for samba without moving the files for you, or even informing you that this might be a good idea… Read more here: http://posterous.mortencb.cx/samba-not-working-after…
Samba not working after Solaris-patching
If you use the built-in Samba in Solaris 10, you might have discovered that after patching Solaris lately, Samba is not working any more. Well this is an easy fix, but I can’t understand why Oracle hasn’t fixed it yet: 1) cp /etc/sfw/private/* /et…