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  Now the video card?

  08.01.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Grrr! These Dell Optiplex 320’s are eating too much of my time. We just upgraded one to Hardy Heron and I lost a full day getting the machine back on its feet. For my own reference (because I know I will have to deal with this again) here are the problems and solutions: First, the […]

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  Tweaking Grub 2

  07.11.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  A little while ago I wrote about my problems booting Linux on a Dell Optiplex 320 the solution was to install Grub 2 and tweak the boot options. Since then I have run into a couple other problems which have required me to learn a little more about managing Grub 2 on a Debian based […]

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  The Python Property

  06.16.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  One of my projects this summer has been to learn Python. I want to be able to use it to replace Matlab and LabView. I may try to write a little more of the how and why later. I have been learning a great deal about Python in the last month or so and thought […]

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  Linux on a Dell Optiplex 320

  10.12.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Back in the bad old days, installing Linux was hard work. Anymore I expect to be able to pop in a Ubuntu install disk and have Linux installed and running in less than an hour. So I was quite dismayed when, after 3 days, I still was unable to boot Linux on our new Dell […]

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  MySQLDump Permissions

  12.22.06 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  I wanted to create a user who had just enough permissions to make a SQL dump of my database for backup purposes. I hunted all over the ‘net, but no one told what permissions were needed so by trial and error I found out: GRANT SELECT, LOCK TABLES ON *.* TO backup_user@localhost IDENTIFIED BY ‘xxx’; […]

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