Tried to connect my Camcorder to my RHEL based system over here but instead of connectivity I got: # grep usb /var/log/messages Aug 28 14:08:32 mbpc kernel: usb 7-4: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3 Aug 28 14:08:32 mbpc kernel: usb 7-4: device descriptor read/64, error -62 Aug 28 14:08:32 mbpc […]

In this post we'll look at setting up a dual router 1GB/s home network using the TL-WR1043ND routers, both with DD-WRT software.  DD-WRT is one of the documented projects and it goes a long way in making the product very stable and easy to work with. The routers are also capable of Wireless N connections […]

Overview: HTPC / Home Backup: MDADM, RAID6, LVM, XFS, CIFS and NFS In this post we'll take a look at setting up a 4TB storage, HTPC, and active backup using basic components that can be bought from the local PC store and freely available software.   Here I set out to try and consolidate my storage […]

Here we'll look at obtaining persistent naming rules for SATA devices so we can reference these hardware devices through a constant name.  This is particularly useful when one needs a persistent name to a device through unique serial and model numbers that remains the same throughout reboots / restarts and shutdowns.  In this post, we'll […]

PROBLEM You've got a set of devices but their names, such as NIC / Network card names keep changing on each reboot or reconnect.  This is a continuation of Linux Networking: device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.  where we resolved a similar issue due to naming but here we'll make it […]

This is a quick and dirty AWK tutorial demonstrating the most common usages and features that one can use on a daily basis by human beings.  Three variants: AWK standalone, integrated into ksh, and one-liner are provided.    On my system, AWK pointed to GAWK.  GAWK has an expanded command set but here we will […]

Just happened to have forgotten a password for one of my user accounts on my workstation and remembered a handy little thing one can do to reset a pass. If you have root access, one can simply regenerate the MD5 hash with:

This is a simple howto tutorial for creating and bonding three interfaces, a wireless one (wlan0), one RealTek based GIGe cabled NIC (eth0) and another alternate Intel based GIGe NIC (eth1).  This is partially a conceptual howto since a home HTPC / Backup center probably doesn't need three separate NIC's for redundancy.  However, with recent […]

In this post we'll configure network booting through PXE.  PXE stands for Preboot eXecution Environment and has been available for Network Devices (or NIC's) for some time.  Such a network boot setup has many uses in particular in OS setup and deployment.  In this post I'll introduce the steps to quickly set one up.  The […]

So you've lost the password to the root account.  Worst, you've had a boot password and it was the same.  Here are some instructions on how to get back into your system: