Month: July 2013
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How to install an Asus PIKE 2008 card
As a non-standard PCI-Express card, the Asus PIKE card involves a slightly different installation procedure. The PIKE slot sits on either side of a gap in the motherboard: You’re definitely not going to mistake it for a regular PCI-Express slot. The card only goes in one way, with the heatsink…
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Asus PIKE 2008 card review
Many storage enthusiasts are familiar with the IBM M1015 card, an IBM rebadge of the LSI 9220-8i host bus adapter (HBA), based on LSI’s SAS2008 chipset. Less are familiar with Asus’ PIKE card – essentially the same thing in Asus’ own form factor, fitting only their proprietary PIKE slots. This card activates…
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Ubuntu Forums hacked, passwords + emails taken – change yours if you are a user!
On the 20th July (US time) the Ubuntu forums were hacked and local usernames, email addresses and passwords were taken. The passwords aren’t in plaintext but regardless, change yours if you are/were a user!
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Asus P9D-E/4L – Clearance between PIKE and PCI slots
One potential caveat of utilising the PIKE slot is that there is minimal clearance between the PIKE card heatsink and the nearest PCI slot; once the card is installed; Mere millimeters! A top view: This poses two problems. Firstly, not many PCI cards have low enough clearance to actually fit!…
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Asus P9D-E/4L Haswell Server Motherboard Review
With the recent release of Intel’s Haswell architecture came new server boards to match. From Asus came the new P9D line, and within that line the Asus P9D-E4/L is the flagship model with quite a comprehensive list of features.
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XenServer 6.2: NICs showing as disconnected despite being connected
Sometimes if you connect a network cable to a NIC XenServer doesn’t register it and keeps the status as disconnected; if this happens, try the following via SSH (or from the console, though you will be kicked out of XenCenter once you do it): xe-toolstack-restart It may take a little while for…
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Ubuntu: How to check the samba version
To check the version of Samba that you are running, use the smbstatus command. The first line is the version, which should look something like: Samba version 3.6.3 If you want to see just the version without the rest of the smbstatus information, you can run: smbstatus –version Much less…
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New CentOS WordPress install: Error 500
Was asked to troubleshoot a client’s installation technique for WordPress on CentOS 6.x yesterday; they were receiving an Error 500 when they tried to access index.php for the first time. Checking the Apache logs showed: SoftException in Application.cpp:431: Mismatch between target GID (522) and GID (65531) of file “/home/andrea/public_html/index.php” Premature end of script…
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Where are the Apache logs in CentOS?
Rather than being in /var/log as you might expect, the Apache logs can be found at: /etc/httpd/logs Here you’ll find the usual access, error etc. logs.