So you try to setup your wireless NIC and get this lovely message: Bringing up interface wlan0:  Device wlan0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.                                                            [FAILED]

So one of the disks under our HTPC array has finally failed after nearly 2 years.  However we did not sustain any data loss as a result since it's only the first disk in a RAID6 system meaning we could still sustain a second disk failure without any data loss.  So we are still good […]

Turns out that my attempt to upgrade my coreutils packages to allow me to use Wake On LAN, required me to upgrade my Fedora 13 to the latest Fedora distribution.  So I'm going to try and jump to Fedora 18 (Not quite sure about Fedora 19 yet but will try.)  However since the complation of […]

Occassionally, there may be a need to setup a remote RDP connection to your remote system from outside.  However, most networks, particularly office environments block remote RDP.  However, SSH is typically not blocked as it's secure , first and foremost, and important in data transfer to / from the organization.  RDP however, is not that […]

WOL or in other words Wake On LAN is a feature that allows you to send a magic packet to a machine that is suspended or hibernating (Potentially when it's off as well) to wake that computer up.  This is handy, particularly where you have DD-WRT installed on your router(s) which allows you to send […]

Computer temperature settings, voltages, fan speed and other components can be monitored off of a standard Linux distribution. Computer temperature monitoring however, can depend on the CPUID level as seen in cat /proc/cpuinfo.  More on the CPU ID levels can be found here.  Below is a processor in one motherboard showing it's CPUID.

To check your BIOS version, issue the following at the prompt:

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So after tinkering with my HTPC I notice the 120mm fan over my video card came loose.  I mounted it on to the side of the case but the fan less video card's heat sink was not hot.  Sure enough, after booting VLC wouldn't play anything.  No sound no video just:  xcb_xv vout display error: […]

This is an extension of the gdb and cores file post earlier and viewable int he link below.  In this case, whenever we restart or try to shutdown the system, we see a brief message on the prompt about some crash which quickly disappears.  Then the system restarts but is not capable of shutting down […]