I’ve finally moved on from my Macbook Pro, late 2013 model and onto a Dell XPS13. I have a work-issued MBP with the touch-bar gimmick and absolutely dislike the keyboard. I decided to dual boot the device with Ubuntu 18.04 but what to do so many workarounds due to the NVMe disk in my XPS13 … Read more
For quite some time i’ve been told that peoples bluetooth Mac keyboard and mouse gets disconnected intermittently. I’ve done the usual, make sure the battery is good, reset the PRAM, Reset the Bluetooth adapter via the hidden menu, but no luck. We kind of brushed it off as there is too many Macs in the … Read more
I have a wall-mounted TV in the office where I want to show dashboards of different metrics. Cluster status, Nagios, network bandwidth, uptime, etc. They are all web-based and can be opened via web browser. I used Google Chrome and hit F11 to enter full screen mode to display my graphics. Since I have multiple … Read more
I had an issue where a system refused to do any apt-get updates. I think the user must of tried running apt-get update and canceled half-way through. My usual trick of running apt-get clean did not work so well: E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. … Read more
VMworld 2015 was last month, which means its been about 1 year since I’ve started this blog! Last year I had the opportunity to attend my first conference as a attendee. This year I attended as a booth staff for my company, and what a difference experience! It was great to run into some old … Read more
This post is on deploying a new Ubuntu VM, dynamically adding more disks, having the guest OS recognize the new drives and increasing its capacity without rebooting. This is really useful for critical production servers that cannot go down for reboots like a NFS server. Lets get started. OS: I’m using Ubuntu 12.02.4 LTS server OS … Read more
Are you a constantly managing multiple Linux nodes and doing a lot of copy/paste to 6+ terminal sessions? Wish you can just type and execute commands once and all your SSH windows get auto-magically filled? Enter: mssh. What is it? This tool connects to multiple servers and opens them up into one terminal window. You type … Read more
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