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MK9: Fatalities

BARAKA FATALITY 1 – (punch) ← → ↓ → (1) FATALITY 2 – (punch) → → ↓ ↓ (3) PIT FATAL. – (vary) ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ (3) BABALITY – (jump) →←→ (4) CAGE (also: JOHNNY CAGE) FATALITY 1 – (touch) → → ← ↓ (3) FATALITY 2 – (punch) ↓ → ↓ → (4) […]

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Personal Technical

“Why is there no /var/log/messages any more?”

Woah!  I just noticed this was missing.  I have used this for many years as my go to location for messages in my Ubuntu Linux environments. With the newest update of Ubuntu this seems to be gone.  {Shocker}   But, there is no need for worrying… The logs I was looking for are in /var/log/syslog. […]

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The Daily Reboot —

There are times when you had a bad system and know it.  And the action to keep it available is rebooting daily.  While I am not in favor of the reboot, it may be necessary.  So I use the following steps on a pesky Ubuntu server I know. Log into your Ubuntu server and ‘sudo […]

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How-To

Kernel Panic Reboot (Ubuntu)

While I never had this happen on my Ubuntu Web Server, I have known a system in my life that seems to panic and lock up. Ubuntu Server doesn’t have this enabled by default, so I enabled it by adding the following to /etc/sysctrl.conf ‘kernal.panic=60’ This will auto reboot my server 60 seconds after a […]

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News

Skype Disruption

Today I find myself slightly frustrated when  I attempted to load Skype @ my office.  To my surprise Skype is having issues yet again all following its acquisition to Microsoft’s hands. Announced on the heartbeat page http://heartbeat.skype.com was the following. “A configuration problem has meant that some of you have been disconnected from Skype. We’ve […]