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I ran through hell today! I tried doing things the old way. You know; edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 in order to set it to a static IP. Well, bad idea. I had all kinds of problems when the two interfaces where online (eth0 and eth1). For example: eth0, even …

Ok, today, I discovered I am still an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot . Yep, I tried to add 2 public networks to one of my CloudSigma servers and one of them didn't work. I thought everything was to blame but my configuration (as always). Well, I managed to discover …

Well, here's a quick one. Let's say you're creating a KVM/Qemu guest; using oz-install; and you're tired, 'cause it's 06:31 and you need some sleep. You don't want to wait the 2k seconds it takes to do all the work so you want to setup a bash script …

So, in my last post, I promised to post these instructions. As if I ever kept secrets from you! Update : Please, visit my repo where you can find the updated code: https://github.com/renich/gce-images So, here's the magic: Initialize (last post) This takes care of setup. Read and …

Basically, this is a HowTo that prevents the usage of a browser in https://developers.google.com/cloud/sdk/ installation. Why? Easy. I wanted to build my own image; from scratch. I wanted https://fedoraproject.org/ 20 on that cloud. The problem is that I have the poorest Internet connection …

I've been having this problem lately: My Fedora 20 would freeze; after a while, while using the xorg-x11-drv-ati driver. Another thing I noticed, was the fan of the card going up and up like crazy. First thing I did, was install lm_sensors : yum -y install lm_sensors And ran …

Ok, I have been setting up my http://cubieboard.org/ up with https://fedoraproject.org/ to be able to control my http://www.butterflylabs.com/ hardware. Obviously, I had to compile cgminer, which is straightforward. So, I want the CubieTruck to start https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer , automatically, as a …

Ok, so, before I go to bed, I wanted to share a quick tip with you. Sometimes, you wanna check a man page on the CLI. AFAIK, you have two alternatives: # man man rsync # info info rsync These are, both, pretty convenient and useful. But, sometimes, you wanna check it …

Ok, today, I had two big ideas. Speaking with Gabriel, I came up with a mini device; pluggable to the computer via USB, a PAN or whatever. The device would be a medical device that you attach to your finger. It would take various metrics; including temperature, pressure, pulse and …

Hoy tuvimos una caida del cluster por un tiempo bastante considerable (fueron al rededor de 30-45 minutos creo). El problema fue que hice un cambio en la configuración del cluster para que usase America/Mexico_City como timezone. El cluster no lo aceptó y, al intentar reiniciar 2 de los nodos …