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Dreamhost Support has Become Awful

Lyle — Fri, 11 May 2012 13:16:43 +0000

When I first signed up for DreamHost years ago, they were always great about promptly replying to all support requests. Usually I would get an email back from them within 2 hours. Sometimes in less than an hour. This always …

Cellphone plans

Lyle — Sun, 06 May 2012 14:01:32 +0000

This post doesn’t have anything to do with Linux/Unix/anything I usually care about, but I found it so frustrating I needed to put it out there… Some time in the next year I would like to get a new phone, …

Update on ownCloud sync client

Lyle — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:11:09 +0000

I noticed today that ownCloud sync clients have incremented to v1.0.1. ownCloud now has an Ubuntu repo so you can download the client through your favorite package manager. Downloaded and tested the Windows client today and I was able to …

Dreamhost, ownCloud

Lyle — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 11:16:21 +0000

Does anyone get excited about clouds? I do. Mostly the remote storage/backup variety. I have been looking at a few different cloud solutions. Like Dropbox, Elephant drive, and plenty of others. They seem to be sprouting up everywhere. I have …

Official Arch mirror… again

Lyle — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:20:53 +0000

Schlunix.org is an official Arch Linux mirror, again. After Arch switched to a tiered system schlunix.org was not on the official list. But that has been corrected. We are syncing again and are a tier 2 mirror (syncing off a …

Oops, I updated Windows and overwrote the MBR

Lyle — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 08:31:50 +0000

I just updated to Windows 7 on my dual-boot laptop, and of course, Windows is greedy, and with its brain-dead installation process it just assumes I would like to overwrite the MBR. Here’s how I got GRUB working again: I …

Cannot Connect to Hidden Wireless Network

Lyle — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 04:00:06 +0000

I don’t know if this is Arch Linux specific or not. After a recent kernel upgrade, 2.6.28, I was not able to connect to hidden wireless networks. This could either be fixed by unhiding the SSID, or by the steps …

Lock mythtv frontends from updating video metadata

Lyle — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:20:31 +0000

I wanted to lock certain mythtv frontends from updating my precious video metadata. Just to ensure my hours of hard work are not wasted. Yes I have database backups, but this is a better solution.

Arch Linux Package Mirror

Lyle — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:46:24 +0000

I finally get a chance to give something back to the Linux community that has been so good to me over the past few years. I started a package mirror for Arch Linux, sure there are plenty of other ones …

Solaris 10 DNS Server for LAN

Lyle — Sun, 25 May 2008 10:03:00 +0000

I finally got a DNS server up and running for my computers. Thanks to http://www.logiqwest.com/dataCenter/Demos/RunBooks/DNS/DNSsetup.html with a great little script that turns your hosts file into DNS entries for BIND. Basically it came down to: Editing the /etc/hosts file to …