1) Read a recommendation for a new comic.
2) Spend said day reading the archives. All four years worth.
Possibly NSFW depending on your workplace, but still fairly funny stuff.
Thanks to Rob for guiding me to the comic and robbing me of another day I’ll never get back.
[tags]comic, leasticoulddo, Least I could Do[/tags]
Its been a long time since I did any work on my personal work server (my old desktop, bought back when Windows 98 was still all the rage. I’ve done a few upgrades since.) that sits under my desk here at home. Unfortunately, I never did quite get it working quite how I wanted it to. As such, I decided a few months back that I was going to rework the system entirely and get it just the way I want it this time around. I finally got around to starting at it this weekend.
Having something of a good experience with Ubuntu’s Desktop Edition of Linux, I decided that I would take a look at their Server Edition. Popping the disk into the drive, I click and tap through a very painless installation process. All the partitioning is done on my behalf, as you would expect, and I was even offered the option of a LAMP setup to be automatically installed. Wait 30 minutes, remove CD, reboot.
GRUB loads, computer reboots. GRUB loads, computer reboots. And again. And again.
After a bit of Googling yesterday, I discovered that this is a problem that has been known about for at least the last few versions of the OS (since 6.06). I am using 7.04, so there has been a couple of iterations since. Thankfully, there is a solution – uninstall linux-server and install the “standard” kernel in its place. It doesn’t take long either. What it does take is a more substantial chunk out of your hard disk (114MB as opposed to 53.2Kb), but then whats the cost of disk space these days anyway?
Now if only I had tested to see if sshd was installed before I disconnected the monitor and keyboard…
[tags]ubuntu, server, automation, tools[/tags]