Archive for the ‘Tech Lessons’ Category
What a difference … Ubuntu to the rescue
In my last post, I complained about Fedora not playing nice with wifi. Well last night I started an Ubuntu install. Within 30 minutes I had installed, configured and was running with wifi. I didn”t even have to edit a config file. Way to go.
Linux wifi drivers STINK
No matter what other sites say (see Madwifi and Fedora Forums), installing a new wifi card in a Fedora desktop is a p.a.i.n. I just spent 8 hours out of my life and two different wifi cards trying to get this working. My first Netgear WG311 card apparently changed drastically in v3 compared to v2, [...]
Restoring VMmachines with Snapshots
Tech writers seem like broken records.. Backup.. test backup.. test again.. make more backups… That is until your backups don”t work. Suddenly, they sound like wisened sages. I had a file level copy of a .vmdk file that had a snapshot. (file-000002.vdmk) Backing these up individually at separate times breaks the snapshot and leaves your [...]
Lesson Learned: Text-based FTP stinks
Today I found out the hard way that when transferring files using ftp to always switch to Binary mode. I was moving backups of data from a tomcat folder to another computer so I could rebuild a kernel and when i tried to tar -xvzf it pulled about 4 files out and then gave me [...]
Making IT profitable for a service-based agency
In a service-based company, selling back the time and materials for a project to a client the way to success. Internal IT departments could learn something from this. IT tend to do ”favors” for clients that can sometimes lead loss of work and loss of materials. These losses, unless properly billed back to the client, [...]
Daylight savings scramble
Everyone knows that Daylight savings is starting 3 week early. (Thanks U.S. Government) What steps do you need to take to make sure that extra hour is taken advantage of?–Gasp– Imagine showing up late to a meeting or, more importantly, not getting to the bar in time for happy hour.Linux Redhat:yum update tzdata To update [...]