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) […]
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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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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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 […]