Monthly Archives: September 2011

Unthinkable (or at least Unwanted) happened!

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Moderator

A system drive failure (and the S.M.A.R.T. system gave no warning!) and it wasn’t wasn’t a simple drive.  It was a RAID 0  [that is a zero, but looks like small 'o'] set.  Serious lesson learned – no system drives … Continue reading →

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WebDAV on Ubuntu (10.04)

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Moderator

Had an interesting go-around with WebDAV on a non-production test server with Apache2 and it seemed errors were almost random.  There were a number of factors involved.  First, I am testing for preparation of using multiple authors to update a … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu 11 (Natty) on Beagleboard

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Moderator

I have no idea what messed up the microSD that had Ubuntu 10.10.  I loaded up a new SD with the latest 11.04 image (zcat and dd) and that went pretty smoothly.  Meanwhile, I decided to put Angstrom back on … Continue reading →

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Beagleboard Ubuntu corrupted

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Moderator

I don’t know how it happened, but the Ubuntu 10.10 image and partitions I had on the Beagleboard got corrupted somehow.  This used to work flawlessly.  The little micro-SD card has been sitting in the slot of the board for … Continue reading →

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