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Replacing physical drive for LVM - pvcreate Can't open /dev exclusively
This is part 2 of my hard drive upgrade. My previous part was about failure to partition a replaced hard drive with GNU Parted: It was just emitting an error of: "The resulting partition is not...
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Advent calendar 2015
Like last year, I happened to get me an advent calendar this year too. The layout is a classic 24 x 0,5L containing 24 lids for the days in random order:There seems to be .... erhm.... problems...
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Improving Nuvoton NCT6776 lm_sensors output
ProblemMy home Linux-box was outputting more-or-less useless lm_sensor output. Example:coretemp-isa-0000 Adapter: ISA adapter Physical id 0: +36.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +98.0°C) Core 0:...
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Unfortunate encounter with Trojan.JS.Agent.KX
I was surfing the other day, and suddenly ding-ding-ding, a warning! I wasn't looking for trouble, but trouble found me, again.That box makes appearances rarely, but typically I know about it's going...
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Apple iPhone 7 giveaway scam
Looks like I'm on a roll. I was home watching a movie and while at it, I got interested about an actor in it and his other work in TV. In normal situation, I'd just flip open one of my laptops, but...
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Installing multi-user Ruby with RVM
I needed to run some Ruby-code in my Fedora-box, but the RPM-packaged version wasn't a decent or recent one. Since it is standard procedure and native to Ruby programming language to use Ruby version...
View ArticleStop the insanity! There are TLDs longer than 4 characters
Software developers are stupid morons!I have worked as one for couple of decades, so take my word for it. I know quite a few of them. Stupid morons, software developers and people who are both.The...
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64-bit Firefox for Windows - Finally!
On version 43 Firefox announced: Firefox 64-bit for Windows Available.Whoa! Already? I've been waiting for that to happen since 2005 when Fedora Core 4 was released. It had a 64-bit Firefox in it....
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Storix - Story of Anthony Johnson continues
Earlier I wrote about Storix and it's author Mr. Johnson.The story developed further on 15th Dec when a jury gave its verdict about the copyright infrightment claim. A court decided that the copyrigt...
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Recovering Windows 7 OEM License Key
In my hugely popular article about Transferring Windows 7 OEM license to a new hard drive, I kept insisting, that you absolutely positively need to know your SLP-key before processing. Couple days ago...
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S9y plugins: Adding codeTag into CKEditor
As you may have noticed, I blog a lot about code, computers and operating system configurations. In writtern form, it is very convenient to use Teletype Text -formatting. Here is a demo of the...
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Recycling used Samsung laser printer cartridges
Every now and then I need a paper copy of something. In Finland, which to my observations is quite far advanced in the paperless processes (working environment or otherwise), that's rare. The obvious...
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Doing fiber installations
Year and half ago I wrote about my new super-fast Internet-connection. Since in this area the fiber-connections are installed to all buildings regardless you're going to use it or not, I had a...
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What is the going price for ... ?
Just something out of one honeypot: INbox mailer ==>> $7 Smtp Inbox Ip ==>> $ 10 Smtp inbox Domain ==>> $8 Smtp Unlimited ==>> $20 Shell ==>> $4 cPanel ==>> $5 RDP...
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Huawei E5186 RS-232 pins explained
For the 2nd time, I got an E5186 loaner (post about the 1st time here). This time with permission to take a closer look inside.Since this one had already RS-232 wires soldered, I took them for closer...
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Huawei E5186 Firmware Upgrade with Multicast Upgrade Tool
Typical firmware upgrade for any entwork applicance is done via web-interface. The obvious catch in that is, that you need to authenticate, move to a suitable page and upload a file to accomplish that....
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Temperature measurement limits of La Crosse WS2357
Guess what happens right before hell freezes over? Your weather station indicates dew point of 136 °C. Kinda funny.Good thing that Weather Underground allows you to edit by removing data points. So,...
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How to stop Windows 10 upgrade bullying
The problemOk. Microsoft has amped up their "upgrade now" campaign to a ridiculous level.First Microsoft Marketing chief Chris Capossela "warned" about Windows 7 being insecure. Warned in quotes...
View ArticleApache mod_rewrite: Blocking unwated requests
As anybody ever attempting to use mod_rewrite knows, that it is kinda black magic. Here are couple of my previous stumbings with it: file rewrite and Ruby-on-rails with forced HTTPS.The syntax in...
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Oracle Java download from command line
As Linux system administrator every once in a while you need to install something requiring Java. Open-source guys tend to gear towards OpenJDK, the GPL-licensed version of java. Still, java developers...
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