Johan Guldmyr Articles


  • 2011-05-23
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Upgrade Ubuntu 10.10 to Natty

Saw this note today in the MOTD - that I can upgrade with do-release-upgrade. Official instructions/details from Ubuntu and here is another quality post on unixtutorial. My Ubuntu 10.10 is running inside a VMWare Workstation Virtual Machine on my Windows 7 x64. I did it over ssh with 'sudo …

Music of the Day 22nd of May

Dying is Fine - Ra Ra Riot - Sounds a lot like Morrissey occasionally, but not often enough for me to start hurling, so I liek. Beware of their main web site http://www.rarariot.com/ - you can get epilepsia for free there. Wild bass in the song Boy - check it out …

Server and Storage Tips from the ITRC

Just a good howto - tip - solution. It's a little hard to find good threads. Hard to find something.. should probably write it in here when I think of it. Also the ITRC are moving to another platform in June 2011 so maybe these won't be available after this. ** Update 2011-06-27 …


Goran Bregovic

Baeutiful! Goran Bregovic - Black Cat White Cat Gypsy music for the win! Other good stuff to check out: Katzenjammer and Gogol Bordello

Songs of the day 17th of May

From the front page of thesixtyone.com Just Pretend - Hayley Sales is soft and nice. I like the part when the bass is more pronounced with about 50s left. Train Song - Felix Fables - Folk Frenzy? Doesn't sound very folky to me. Maybe the background tunes and vocals are. Quite down …

What do I do?

Hard to tell.. but if you see this pretty cool 6min movie: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1430 you'll see that they mention a collider. This thing sends out lots of data from each collision. I administrate a system that gets a little bit (very little) of that …

  • 2011-05-15
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HP's Brocade firmwares compatible with other switches?

After a question in my SAN switch firmware upgrade article I made a comparison of two downloads of 6.3.1b (one via IBM and one from HP) - the only differences were a file called ancillary and one called EULA.pdf. I used examdiff to find the differences. All the …

  • 2011-05-14
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HP Virtual Room Installation on RHEL 6 x64

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1478734 I couldn't get it to work. Eventually I installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS in a VM in Virtualbox and in there it worked. However, resolution is only 800x600. So I found this page: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php …

  • 2011-05-12
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Windows 7 Blank Windows Update Screen

Ever noticed this? I googled my behind off and saw some posts about registry , re-registering, runing as administrator but any way the last one did not work. A restart do get them back. Maybe not the most awesome 'fix' but I think a restart might be good every now and …