Unthinkable (or at least Unwanted) happened!

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 on RAID 0 again! How it happened:  getting ready to go on trip to Prague/Vienna …
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WebDAV on Ubuntu (10.04)

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 website.  WebDAV was the logical choice.  Installing WedDAV was simple enough: load or enable modules …
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Ubuntu 11 (Natty) on Beagleboard

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 that corrupted DS card (worse case it wouldn’t work) withmy development PC (used Linux Mint presently).  …
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