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Reset PS3 Video Setting

This short write up is for a friend who needs to know how to reset his video so that he can move away from composite video (blah) to HDMI (come get some). Make sure the system is off. Hold down the Power Button for a few seconds (about 5) – until you hear the second […]

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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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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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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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Enable XML-RPC Posting

Looking for a way to post to WordPress from my iPhone, I downloaded the WordPress application.  Soon after running the app and attempting to connect to my site, I was notified that I need to enable XML-RPC remote publishing.  That being said, I went to my site and made the following changes: If your blog […]

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ESXi 4 on USB Thumb Drive

I have no doubts there are many people writing about this; so add me to the list.  I wanted to setup my small ESXi 4 Server to boot from USB media so that I no longer needed to have a local drive in the machine I use as a server. Using VMware Player and a […]