hyperbola :: lifestream

Finally added an upstart script for my gollum wiki #linux #ops One less thing to worry about when dealing with a reboot or upgrade

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Only minor drama when upgrading hyperbola to 12.04 LTS ... #mysql failed to cleanly upgrade to 5.5 and I forgot the correct URL for my staging environment #linux #fail

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I have 3 spare computers lying around. What should I do with them? One idea is to turn them into a cluster with one node running a shared kernel for the entire cluster. #rpc #linux

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So on this one server, my default shell was /bin/sh, i'm not a sudoer, root owns my home directory, and another user owns /home. #linux #fail

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I need to get around to resetting up this server. I want to switch from svn to git and redo the whole apache config. why did I put the site in /var where I have to sudo all the time?? #linux #fail

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Should I upgrade 10.04 LTS to 11.04? #linux

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lesson learned: never muck around with mysql's database directory; you will screw up #fail #linux

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sysadmin ing is fun. hello beautiful browser based svn repo browsing (insurrection) and web-based svn admining (svn-admin) #linux #win

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Found out that my raid array not mounting a couple months ago was due to a failed drive. Can't recover it. I lost so much data. #linux #fail

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Had a bad run-in with rm -rf. lost the sqlite database for the site. on the bright side, I'm using mysql now. #linux #fail

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