Oct 16, 2013 Posted by newlife007

Monitoring Your System with Munin on Fedora

Have a few servers and want to get some stats on IO, CPU, networking and other data don’t have full blown monitoring, this is where Munin can help out. Installation is simple Install Munin. $ sudo yum install munin munin-node Enable and start munin-node service $ sudo systemctl enable munin-node.service $ sudo systemctl start munin-node.service Set the password for the Munin id to access the  site $... read more

Sep 10, 2013 Posted by newlife007

xterm-256color error in Fedora 18 and 19

After upgrading to the latest release of Fedora I started noticing an error when connecting to older RHEL and Solaris servers and getting an error. This change was implemented in Fedora 18 to allow for support of 256 color terminals. xterm-256color: Unknown terminal type I don’t know what kind of terminal you are on – all I have is ‘xterm-256color’ This was causing issues trying to... read more

Aug 27, 2013 Posted by newlife007

How to Restore Dell XPS 420 and Dell XPS 1530 to Factory

Recently ran in an issue where spyware and viruses was all a system could take and it was time to restore the system back to factory and start again. This post describes how to restore back to the Dell factory image on Dell XPS 420 (desktop) and Dell XPS 1530 (laptop) but will work on other models as well. Back in the days the manufacturer would send the restore DVD’s but then stopped and started... read more

Aug 13, 2013 Posted by newlife007

TinyMCE Advanced A Plugin to improve WordPress Post editing options

In the past when creating posts with WordPress I always reverted to editing HTML code directly if I wanted advanced features in my posts like tables, font family and other features, but from time to time it is nice to just have the ability to click and add while in the editor. So after digging a bit in the plug-ins I came across TinyMCE Advanced. TinyMCE adds 16 plugins to WordPress’ wysiwyg editor:... read more

Aug 10, 2013 Posted by newlife007

Finding the World Wide Name (WWN) in Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2

You know how it is, you just built that new server and you need to attach storage to the Qlogic or Emulex card and the storage guys are asking for the WWN (World Wide Name) and if this is a first time you start to scratch your head, no worries because Microsoft has added that little piece of info right at your finger tips. In Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2, you can use “Storage Explorer” to... read more