Motherboard not recognizing SATA II drives

A couple years ago I built a simple computer from some spare parts and made it a linux desktop. A few days ago I decided to use it to replace an even older linux server I had running at my house. I turned it on (for the first time since I built it) and decided, after a few failed attempts at upgrading from Fedora 11 to Fedora 16, to put in a new hard drive and install Fedora 16 from scratch.

The old hard drive was a 40GB IDE drive. My new hard drive is a 750GB SATA II drive.

I took out the old drive, plugged in the new drive, and boot the machine from a Fedora 16 live CD...

Giving a ReadyNAS NV+ share a default user group

The Situation

There’s a Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ unit in the office here running ReadNAS Frontview 4.1.7 that houses files for multiple departments.

• Account Dept Share
• Sales Dept Share

The ReadyNAS NV+ has multiple groups established:

• Accounting
• Sales
• Admin

Employees are put into one of these groups and the groups are given access to various shares (Admin has universal access):

• Account Dept Share – Accounting
• Sales Dept Share – Sales

The Problem

In time we started getting a lot of file access errors...

.htaccess redirects to file not found

I got a new Virtual Private Server account that I plan on hosting a few web sites on. These sites are already on another server and require some specific .htaccess redirects in order to work properly.

Before I point the domain to the new server, I want to make sure it works properly

Testing

I moved the files and got everything placed the same way it was on the old server. because there’s no domain name, I have to access the server via the IP, and because this server will host multiple accounts, I have to use the Apache ~account naming scheme...

Updating Eclipse when it doesn’t want to

I’ve gotten back into using Eclipse lately. Since it’s been a while, and since I’ve plugged in support for Android development and Subversion, there were quite a few updates to install.

Trouble is, the updates wouldn’t install.

They would show up on the list, ask me to confirm the license, but Eclipse wouldn’t move...

Restore the missing Firefox icon in Windows 7

This seems to be a problem with Windows 7 64-bit edition. I have Professional, but it may be present in other flavors as well.

My Experience

I have Firefox pinned to the taskbar, but the Firefox icon disappears whenever I install a new program. There’s still an icon there, but it’s a nondescript, system-default icon. The only thing I could come up with was reinstalling Firefox...

Firefox icon disappears in Windows 7

I built a new desktop computer yesterday and installed Windows 7 on it.

As with every new build, there were quite a few updates to do (Windows Updates, BIOS updates, driver updates, etc). One of the first things I usually do in that process is install the Firefox browser. The install went great and I pinned it to my taskbar.

Sometime later I noticed that the Firefox icon on my taskbar had turned into the ugly “I don’t know what kind of shortcut I am” icon that looks like some sort of non-descript system file...

Setting up Ruby in Debian

PHP guy (me), meet Ruby.

A friend brought me a Ruby book (he’s been trying to convince me to learn Ruby for a while now) and I couldn’t help but try it out. It would only be good to me on the web, and I didn’t want to dive into Rails yet, so I needed to figure out how to get Ruby to display HTML content over a web server.

This is my quest.

Installing Ruby

Since my server is running Debian (version 5, “lenny”) and the Debian folks maintain a Ruby package, all I had to do was install a few packages (Read in full

Making remote backups with rsync

I recently had to create a backup system for a live web server. I didn’t have a lot of time to test out different backup solutions, but rsync came highly recommended, so I thought I’d give it a whirl.

It’s not too clear on the web site, but it seems like rsync is put out by the people who developed (and continue to develop) Samba. I’m not sure what that actually means, but it helps me feel comfortable using it (that, and the fact that it was recommended by respected sources)...