Category Archives: OSS

Linux on a Dell Vostro 200

Posted on February 7, 2008 by Barry O'Donovan

Following a recent post to ILUG asking about setting Linux up on a Dell Vostro 200, I followed up with my notes from the time I had to do it a few months back. This is just a copy of … Continue reading →

Posted in Linux, OSS, Recipes | 6 Comments

Recovering an LVM Physical Volume

Posted on December 8, 2007 by Barry O'Donovan

Yesterday disaster struck – during a CentOS/RedHat installation, the installer asked (not verbatim): “Cannot read partition information for /dev/sda. The drive must be initialized before continuing.”. Now on this particular server, sda and sdb were/are a RAID1 (containing the OS) … Continue reading →

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Amazon Web Service’s ec2-bundle-image on Ubuntu

Posted on November 12, 2007 by Barry O'Donovan

This is really a post for Google’s crawlers on getting AWS’s EC2 AMI tools working under Ubuntu (I’m currently on Gutsy 7.10). Despite any bitching I may do below, EC2 and S3 are cool services. The first problem is that … Continue reading →

Posted in Linux, OSS, Rants, Software | 1 Comment

Nagios Plugin to Check the Status of PRI Lines in Asterisk

Posted on November 2, 2007 by Barry O'Donovan

I have a number of Asterisk implementations that I keep an eye on that have multiple PRI connections. Knowing if and when they ever go down has the obvious benefits of alerting me to a problem in near real time. … Continue reading →

Posted in Linux, OSS, Recipes, Software, VoIP | 5 Comments

Easy PHP Search in Firefox

Posted on October 25, 2007 by Barry O'Donovan

Niall has created a quick Opensearch file to add the PHP Function search to the search bar of Firefox 2 And IE7. If anyone is interested it’s available here. For those that don’t know, this feature has existing in KDE … Continue reading →

Posted in Linux, OSS, Recipes, Software | 3 Comments