I have a western digital 2.0TB Black hard drive that was returning a SMART error of "9 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors". This probably means the drive is on it's way out, but it was passing long smart tests ok, and it's in a raid so I've decided to try …

I ran into some problems updating image magick on older centos6 systems. Specifically ImageMagick-6.9.10-50 which would error during the make compile with:

magick/.libs/libMagickCore-6.Q16.so: undefined reference to `clock_gettime'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [utilities/animate] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr …

So this has been bothering me for a while now where I would sometimes get notifications on my desktop from reddit r/archlinux posts. I finally took some time to track down where they are coming from, and it looks like it's push notifications from firefox. I guess these come …

I ran into an issue recently trying to install a application menu link on a debian system (desktop was mate in this case, but I think it applies to any gnome based desktop). The issue was that I would install a new .directory file for a new menu entry along …

I was having some issues on a server where a particular plugin (bb-plugin) wouldn't update, and I'd just get this error:

PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Invalid archive structure

After much poking around, I ended up installing the php5-curl package (on debian), and this ended up solving the problem. I think php was …

I had this usb cash drawer for a point of sale system, and needed to trigger it to open. I assumed it would be a serial protocol as I saw the drivers mention something about COM port selection in windows, so I figured it would be easy enough to figure …

So I have been using qmail-autoresponder. for vacation messages on qmail, but it doesn't work with qmailadmin. which expects the program autorespond. So I finally got around to fixing this up and patching qmailadmin to write the proper files, and set the .qmail file to use qmail-autoresponder.

In doing so …