Happy New Year, 2012!!
It’s been a wild year for Your Linux Guy. My world has changed, and I’m busier than I ever have been before. But I’ll do my best to keep bringing mildly interesting, odd, geeky, Linux-based posts to you in 2012….
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Yearly Archive: 2011
WordPress Jetpack On An Older Linux Server
Unless you are a regular reader to this blog and were here anyway, I’m guessing you stumbled on it from a search because youre having a problem with the Jetpack plugin for WordPress. Well, well, well. Recently, I also forced…
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Finding KMS Violators in the Enterprise
I use bash to do almost everything. Even when I’m neck-deep in Windows and I need to solve a problem, my first thought is a bash script. Recently, I was working in a large distributed enterprise that utilizes Microsoft KMS…
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Easy webhosting on Opensuse…
I got this question from reader Ren: “…I am looking for an article that assumes you have a web server running already on opensuse 11.3, and a friend asks you to host his web site for him as well and…
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Power-Outages, My Mother-In-Law, and FSCK…
A couple weeks ago, my mother-in-law (M.I.L.) — who runs Opensuse 11.3 on her desktop — had a power outage. After the power came on, she called me to describe a weird error she was getting during boot-up. And the…
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Linux Journal Stops Printing…
It is the sad sign of an end of an era, and yet-more proof that I am old. Apparently, I’m one of the few people left in the world that want a *printed* Linux magazine, making me a relic of…
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How to add a second Apache2 instance to a SLES11 server?
I recently got this question from reader Niyati: “Can you please guide for installing apache separately without disturbing the current version on sles.. if doing that risks the support issues.. Or any workaround to get the latest release running on…
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How to in-place upgrade from Opensuse 11.3 to 11.4
Following along in my line of “Readers Digest” versions of the official Opensuse upgrades procedures, (here are a couple of my past ones: 11.1, 11.2) here’s the latest for upgrading in-place from 11.3 to 11.4 (somehow I missed 11.2 to…
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How to Export a List of Bundle Relationships in ZCM?
As a ZCM (ZENworks Configuration Management) system administrator, you sometimes need to generate lists of things (and relationships to other things) that may not be possible in the management console. Of course, one of the most powerful aspects of ZCM…
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