After adding a new network interface to my Windows XP computer networking stopped working completely. I uninstalled the McAfee Security Center but that didn’t help. This article looks at the steps I did to uninstall and reinstall TCP/IP networking on Windows XP.
One of my Linux CD Mall customers emailed me the other day with a Linux annoyance: "The computer always booted into Linux by default if I wasn’t quick enough to stop it. Most annoying. I would have preferred the computer to wait until I told it where to boot but could not find a way of doing that. All of the Linux distros that I tried just take over without being asked." This post looks at how you can change the grub boot loader’s settings to solve this issue using a text editor. And I agree with him, it is annoying how the boot loader is often set up by default to boot into Linux too quickly.
I recently posted about how to move *nix application with minimal downtime, inspired by having to do this with a Postgres install I support. The last post looked at this in fairly general terms, and this post more specifically at the exact problem I experienced.
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Man page for the unix linux bsd command chmod. NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION STICKY FILES STICKY DIRECTORIES OPTIONS AUTHOR REPORTING BUGS COPYRIGHT SEE ALSO NAME chmod – change file access permissions SYNOPSIS chmod [OPTION]… MODE[,MODE]… FILE… chmod [OPTION]… OCTAL-MODE FILE… chmod [OPTION]… –reference=RFILE FILE… DESCRIPTION This manual page documents the GNU version of chmod. chmod changes …
The date daylight savings starts and ends changed in New Zealand last year, but unfortunately there was only a few months between when the decision was made and when it happened and the updates to the timezone databases on various Linux distributions wasn’t done in time in many cases. This affected many servers and services which displayed the wrong time for the couple of weeks between when daylight savings actually started and when it would have in previous years.