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Wipe a RAID disk

If for some reason you have a disk which used to be in a software RAID and you need to add it back into OMV then OMV will still recognize it as a RAID disk, even if you have reformatted it. In my case I had a disk that was removed from the array for… read more…
Create a Debian Live USB flash drive

There are many sites that describe how to do this, but some techniques just didn’t work for me and many required you to do it from Linux which also doesn’t work for me. This is what worked for me on Windows 10. 1. Insert you key into your Windows PC 2. Though this may not… read more…
Fedora, Linux, IR Remotes, LiRC and MythTV

This post is mostly focused around getting a Microsoft MCE, Media Centre Edition, infra-red remote working with a MythTV frontend. However I will be covering as much as I can about about generic issues. My setup has Fedora 16 running with a hard drive install of Fedora LiveCD and I did this work in May… read more…
Segmentation faults uploading images in WordPress

When I tried uploading images I started getting a “HTTP error”. Not all images but quite a lot and it wasn’t just big images or even the biggest images. I noticed this just after the automatic upgrade to WordPress 4.0.1, but having said that I hadn’t done an upload since I had to rollback my… read more…
Gnome Schedule – a GUI to CRON or AT

If you want a recurring job or task to run on a Unix/Linux box the standard has been CRON. To add extra jobs or tasks can be done from a command line but I tend to be a lazy fellow so I look for a GUI front end that makes my life easier. At the… read more…
Cron job to check and if needed restart MythBackend

I am running MythTV 0.25 on Fedora 16. The problem I have is that sometimes the backend stops responding for reasons I have not figured out. Until I resolve the problem I want a mechanism that will restart the backend when it stops responding. The solution I took was to create shell script that would… read more…
Editing menu shortcuts in Gnome 3 on Fedora 16

Just a short note about changing menu items in gnome in fedora 16. The location where the shortcuts are held for everyone is: /usr/share/applications You can have user specific menu items, just like windows and this is under the users profile. I believe these are under: ~/.local/share/applications The application shortcut files are pretty intuitive and… read more…
Upgrading from Fedora 14 to 18

This post is about the upgrade process I followed to upgrade a VM from Fedora 14 to Fedora 18. I had struggled with this in the past but managed to get it working now. It probably helped that some time had passed and I did more research. As it transpired the upgrade from F14 to… read more…
Installing Tiger VNC on Fedora 16

VNC is a great product that allows you to get a GUI session between different or the same O/S. This article describes installing VNC on a Fedora 16 box Steps 1. Using YumEx or similar install TigerVNC 2. Copy: /lib/systemd/system/vncserver@.service to /lib/systemd/system/vncserver@:1.service – Where I have “:1.” to which ever port you want to use… read more…
Disabling screensavers on Fedora 16

The motivation here was that I had a MythTV frontend running in our lounge connected to a 42″ flat screen with LED back lighting, I had no need to have a screensaver and actually found it very annoying. Unfortunately, at least on Fedora 16, disabling or removing the screensaver is not as easy as you… read more…