Archive for the 'Lazyweb' Category

Possible hardware issue with Tyan S3970 motherboard

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

Dear Lazyweb,
You will probably want to skip this if you have no knowledge of server motherboards and RAM and/or no interest in helping me.
I have a new server based on a Tyan S3970 motherboard with four DIMMs. It was assembled by the supplier and subjected to a burn-in test. It seems however that […]

haproxy bafflement

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

Update 2007-05-05: I sent some strace output to the author of haproxy, Willy Tarreau, and he replied within 24 hours with a full annotation of the strace and a one line patch to fix this issue. That’s what I call support! Here’s his comments and the patch:
I think this is caused by the […]

Why doesn’t script work anymore?

Sunday, February 11th, 2007

Uwe’s post about script reminded me that script just doesn’t seem to work for me for some reason anymore on Debian (both sarge and etch). I also see it sometimes on work’s RHEL-alike machines, but not all of them!
Here’s what happens:

$ script
Script started, file is typescript
bash: No such file or directory
Script done, file is […]

What Would Lazyweb Do?

Saturday, January 20th, 2007

In relation to my recent hardware issues I now have a bit of a dilemma, although it’s not a bad kind of dilemma to have.
Yesterday afternoon memtest86+ locked up after 10h28m running. It didn’t report any memory errors but clearly there are hardware problems there if even memtest can lock it up. So […]

Dear Lazyweb, am I using memtest86+ correctly?

Friday, January 19th, 2007

I’ve got a Supermicro-based server that I’m in the process of setting up for Xen hosting purposes. After 3 or 4 days of uptime and light load (because it’s not in production yet) sitting in its rack in a datacentre weird things start to happen.
I get random kernel panics and OOPSes, it locks up […]

Dear Lazyweb, help me set up my audio

Saturday, June 24th, 2006

In times past, when I had a desktop computer, I’d always have to be in that one place to use it, so attaching speakers to it was a reasonable way to play music while I worked. These days I only have a laptop for my personal computing needs, and all my data is on […]

Dear Lazyweb, Can you suggest an organiser/calendaring solution?

Saturday, May 20th, 2006

Hi,
What I’m looking for is a simple organiser or calendaring solution whereby everything is stored on a server. I want to be able to put in details of TODO items, events and meetings via a web interface (so that I can do it from mostly anywhere).
It should be able to email me about upcoming […]