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Ubuntu 10.04.02 LTS released

Erik

Friday, February 18, 2011

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The second maintenance update of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS has been released. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS will be supported with routine maintenance updates until April 2013 on desktops and April 2015 on servers, The release integrates ‘numerous post-release updates’ including security updates and ‘corrections for high-impact bugs, with a focus on maintaining stability and compatibility with Ubuntu […]

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Howto: Delete files by inode number

Ever mistakenly pipe output to a file with special characters that you couldn’t remove? -rw-r–r– 1 eriks eriks 4 2011-02-10 22:37 –fooface Good luck. Anytime you pass any sort of command to this file, it’s going to interpret it as a flag. You can’t fool rm, echo, sed, or anything else into actually deeming this […]

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MegaCLI Cheat Sheet

Recently I’ve had to do extensive work with Dell PowerEdge servers, and specifically Dell’s that use the LSI MegaRAID controllers. Anyone who has ever had to work with the LSI RAID controllers knows that the MegaCLI provided by LSI is the most cryptic command line utility in existence. MegaCli is available for Linux, DOS, Windows, […]

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