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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Month:September 2011
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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Beagleboard Ubuntu corrupted
I don’t know how it happened, but the Ubuntu 10.10 image and partitions I had on the Beagleboard got corrupted somehow. This used to work flawlessly. The little micro-SD card has been sitting in the slot of the board for about 9 months without being used. I wonder if static from the cables still attached …
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