Category Archives: Linux

Memory Errors

This article gives a cool look into what happens when just one bit is flipped, and how to trace it. The author really wants to accuse cosmic radiation, but I’d be more inclined to blame manufacturing processes and/or other environmental conditions before that.
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CUPS Trash

My home server’s CUPS service has being going apeshit ever since an update. The printer’s PPDs don’t seem to work so well. Using PCL versions, it just prints out endless pages of complete rubbish. Using the PS version usually works, with the occasional PS error page. And it takes forever to spool, or whatnot. Sometimes [...]
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Updating WordPress

It wouldn’t be so tedious, if they would make things consistent. Well, maybe not consistent, but in-line with what I want. First, when I have to update WordPress itself, I’m presented with a prompt to update on the control panel. There are two options, “Upgrade Automatically”, which I can’t use since I don’t like setting [...]
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Getting ALSA to Work on the Intel D201GLY2 in Linux

My home server is an Intel D201GLY2. It’s a fan-less mini-ITX with a Celeron at 1.2GHz. It supports 2GB and has 2 SATA plugs, an IDE one, on-board sound (intel8x0), on-board video, and basically everything a normal desktop computer would have. Except the sound refused to work in Gentoo.
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A Simple Backup Script for Linux

Not too long ago I upgraded a hard drive in my home server. I went from a 250 GB media storage drive to a 1000 GB one. The main drive is another 250 GB disk. I decided that since I didn’t have any kind of backup system in place, I could assign those duties to [...]
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