Ubuntu and Problems with Gigabit Ethernet Cards
Last night when I booted up a LiveCD of Ubuntu on my HP I found that Ubuntu wouldn’t work with my Intel Gigabit Ethernet card. To be sure, this may be a hardware problem, but when I installed the same model and make of card on my server, when replacing the one that died in the lightning strike, I found that it too had problems. On the HP, the card could not be accessed by the networking configuration, a problem which I have not seen before. The problem may have been related to the fact that the network manager refused...
Upgrading the Junk Computers
Last night I upgraded two old computers that I had on my hands, leaving me me no time to write a post, but here’s the post about the upgrades, as promised. Given that both these machines were quite old, spending money just to upgrade them was out of the question. Fortunately there are quite a few old, but better than what’s in the machines, computer parts lying around the house. First on my priority was to upgrade the RAM, as neither machine had enough RAM to run a LiveCD without being painfully slow. Fortunately, some old DDR Kingston RAM turned...
Until Tomorrow
Today saw me quite busy, going from hard work outside to the upgrading of a couple of computers. Unfortunately, that leaves me out of time to write up a post for today - so until tomorrow
Theories About Strange Spam Comments
Much like those odd spam emails that end up in your inbox, my comment approval queue sometimes gets comments that are made up of random letters strung together. Curiously, none of the links that are put into these are actually valid (I’m not talking I clicked on it - I’m talking I used whois to check the domain). Now, I do understand why the text is randomly strung together like that - to confuse automated filters (I’m pretty sure at least). What I don’t get is the point of posting a spam comment that has no apparent purpose. My theory...
Ubuntu Server Boot Leaves Blinking Cursor Then No Signal - Grub2
Today I went to boot up the back up server I created from the Dell recently introduced only to discover that it wouldn’t boot. After hooking a monitor to it I discovered that BIOS had held it back because the time wasn’t set (the motherboard battery needs to be replaced), and after fixing that I let it run - only to discover that it would reach a point at which there was a blinking cursor for a short time, then the monitor displayed that there was no signal. Research lead me to discover that other old Dells using onboard graphics...