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Recent Transmissions
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All in One Gestures Addon breaks spell checker
For the longest time, I’ve had a problem in Firefox where I can’t use the built-in spell checker; the suggested corrected words don’t show up for me to pick from one of them. This blows! This morning I decided to end this suffering and find the problem, surely it had to be an extension. I…
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Using e.g. vs i.e.
Contrary to popular belief, e.g. and i.e. aren’t interchangeable, and they mean different things. The easiest way to remember when to use i.e. vs e.g. is to listen how it would make your phrase sound if you substituted them with their true meaning. i.e. stands for id est from latin, which really means “in other…
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Turned out to be a driver issue
In a previous post I mentioned that I was having problems kickstarting one of the appliances. Nothing can be more perplexing than something that was working fine, and then it stops working for no apparent reason! This must have been a driver issue; I either migrated the old kickstart environment incorrectly, or something in the…
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Appliance cloning saga continues
We finally have laid down the roadmap to appliance building Nirvana. We met yesterday and last week with our manufacturers to discuss the technicalities of the process and the logistics to wrap it all up. We now have the following in place: Network Boot system that allows us to: Boot into our Kickstart environment. Boot…
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Enterprise Backup Project
Backup, backup, backup. The mantra of a good Systems Administrator. There is something really scary that will keep you up at night when you are in charge of an enterprise network and you aren’t sure about your recovery strategy. One of the clients I work with is in a tight budget so naturally backup, to…