Rough Book

random musings of just another computer nerd

Upgraded to FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE

I upgraded my server OS to FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE. It was painles… ok I won’t lie… it was mostly painless. With me, nothing ever goes according to plan.

Anywaym things look good for now. Hopefully this will get rid of those annoying kernel panics when I transfer large files. I hear that issue was fixed in 5.1. Since I was running 5.0-RELEASE, obviously I had the issue. I hope everything works now.

FreeBSD is really amazing.

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October 11, 2004 Posted by | FreeBSD, Operating Systems | , | Leave a Comment

Server Crash

My server crashed. Horribly. I’m not sure what happened, but I woke up this morning to find both my machines had powered down. I assume that we had some sort of power failure. Power failures are very bad on complex file-systems. I learnt this the hard way.

I lost 77% of my database. Basically the file system got corrupted. I’m not sure what the extent of the damage on my system is. As of now, I’m back to where I was a month and a half ago – as far as the database is concerned. This is because I still have the sql dump I got from Marc’s server. There are inconsistencies in the Photo Album and I’ve lost a ton of journal entries… You know what? I haven’t even checked the rest of the system out. I’m too scared. Anyway… I had to fsck the file system a couple of times before I got this up and running. I hope nothing like this ever happens again…

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May 9, 2003 Posted by | Computers, FreeBSD, Operating Systems, Programming and Development, Web | , , , , , | Leave a Comment

smbfs

Sharity-Lite stopped working… No, wait… Actually it might have been my Windows machine. Ever since I installed that piece-of-crap Xilix ISE and ModelSim software my computer has been acting weird. It wouldn’t authenticate requests from Sharity-Light. The only way I could mount drives was if I enable simple file sharing. I couldn’t have that… I wanted it to be exclusive… It used to work before, but for some reason, now it doesn’t. That’s when I discovered SMBFS. It’s pretty neat. Mounts Windows shares really well! That and CUPS works really nicely with my HP Deskjet 812C, which is now connected to my FreeBSD machine. God I’m such a nerd!

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February 23, 2003 Posted by | Computers, FreeBSD, Networking, Operating Systems, Windows | , , , , , , | Leave a Comment

Some new screenshots

I’ve got… like FOUR screenshots of KDE 3.1. Yeah, I was bored. I added support for PNG images to the image manipulation script. KDE 3.1 is pretty sweet… but ever since the update, samba and cups have been acting strange. Samba works for the most part. Cups doesn’t work at all… I can send raw data to my windows printer, but I can’t seem to use the driver… weird… I’ll have to mess around with it some more…

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February 13, 2003 Posted by | Computers, FreeBSD, Networking, Operating Systems | , , | Leave a Comment

CUPS working

Got CUPS working. I really should document my work… smb://vivin@excelsior/HPDeskjet812C… Anyways, all I have left to do is set up the colour scheme and stuff like that… of KDE… and install Mozilla again… Fun… Fun…

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January 30, 2003 Posted by | Computers, FreeBSD, Networking, Operating Systems | , , , , | Leave a Comment

FreeBSD 5.0

Installed FreeBSD 5.0. Of course, nothing went as planned. I downloaded the ISO’s and burned them, but the CD’s turned out to be worthless as they wouldn’t boot. Don’t know why. So I ended up with a couple of coasters. I decided to do it instead through FreeBSD. It worked this time. Got my system pretty much the way it was under 4.7. I still have to set up CUPs. I did get Samba working again. Although, I should document my work a little better. It would be easier… especially with Samba… I spent 15 minutes trying to work out a kink… My quick and dirty journal file only had the remark “search the web for relevant documentation”. It took some time to find what I was looking for. Well, anyway… it looks like it’s working great…

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January 30, 2003 Posted by | Computers, FreeBSD, Networking, Operating Systems | , , | Leave a Comment

Semester Done

The semester is over. Had my CSE 421 final yesterday. I’m a true CSE major now. I really miss that class. It was an awesome experience. Got CUPS working on my FreeBSD machine. I can print to my Windows shared printer. I also have OpenOffice installed. Trying to get the CrossOver plugin to install Trillian. Leaving for California on the 19th. After that I leave for India on the 21st. Can’t wait…

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December 18, 2002 Posted by | Computers, Family and Friends, FreeBSD, Life, Networking, Operating Systems, School, Travel, Windows | , , , , , , , | Leave a Comment

Samba

Got samba working on my FreeBSD machine. Now I can access NFS shares from my XP box.

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December 11, 2002 Posted by | Computers, FreeBSD, Networking, Operating Systems, Windows | , , , , | Leave a Comment

FreeBSD

I’m thinking of putting up a FreeBSD Journal here. I’m having a hard time remembering all the different things I’ve done to get my machine customized. It would help if I kept track of all the things I did. Plus, it will be a good resource…

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December 11, 2002 Posted by | Computers, FreeBSD, Operating Systems | , , | Leave a Comment

FreeBSD Error Message

I thought this was a cute error message:

Unable to go to your saved /etc directory in ?! Argh! Something went seriously wrong! It’s quite possible that your former /etc is toast. I hope you didn’t have any important customizations you wanted to keep in there.. :(

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December 10, 2002 Posted by | Computers, FreeBSD, Operating Systems | | Leave a Comment

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