Liquidstate

Today I had a bit of a challenge. I had a broken Windows XP system that wouldn’t even boot into safe mode. I had already decided to re-install, but didn’t know what key was used to install it.

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You can force the re-installation of a package using:

rpm -e --justdb --nodeps <package-name>
yum install <package-name>

This can be really useful if you’ve accidentally removed some components of the package, or perhaps hacked around with config files so much that you just want to go back to the original. Yum will automatically re-install any missing binaries, but it will not overwrite your existing config files. Instead, the ‘default’ config files will be written as “<filename>.rpmnew”.

Hi everyone!

Welcome to the new Liquidstate website. The last version was looking a little dated, and the lack of decent back-end editing software meant that I never really updated it as often as I wanted.

So, Im now back with a Wordpress driven site that, although a little inflexible, should give me more time to add new content than worrying about design. It also means that in the future, when I fancy a change of design, I can go looking for new templates, rather than go through the painful process of migrating content!

The only thing that hasn’t quite made it over yet is photos. Which, to be honest is a bit of a shame because that’s mostly why people are here! Im still withering with the idea of moving all my photos to Flickr. I know, its evil, yada yada, why pay someone what you can do yourself, etc, etc. But, the truth is, well, Flickr “just works”. I dont need to worry about bandwidth. I dont have to worry about disk space. And, again, I dont have to worry about migration. If I ever change template, or move to a new content management system, well, as long as it has Flickr integration, job done! There’s also the whole “social” aspect of Flickr, which I think (sadly) is here to stay.

Anyway, would love to hear comments back from anyone who is loving or hating the new site.
Cheers,
Bryan

Update: Now running the Wordpress 2.3, and I’ve migrated away from “UTW” to the new tagging system.
Update: Baseline version is now kept up to date with the new Wordpress svn trunk.

The Network Information Service or NIS (originally called Yellow Pages or YP) is a client-server directory service protocol for distributing system configuration data such as users, groups, or host names between computers.

Typically, NIS becomes invaluable when you have a local area network with a number of systems that are used by a particular group of users. Using NIS, you can share user accounts, groups, and host files so that users can easily login to the various systems. For example, when a user updates their password on one system, it automatically takes effect on all other systems.
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The goals of the Linux-NTFS project are to develop reliable and full feature access to NTFS by the Linux kernel driver and by a user space driver (ntfsmount), and to provide a wide collection of NTFS utilities and a developer’s library for other GPLed programs.

The quickest way to mount an NTFS partition on a RHEL server is by downloading an RPM suitable for your system, installing it, and then using it like a normal kernel module:

# Mount usb storage device
mount -o ro /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usbdrive

In the above example, I’ve mounted a portable USB disk drive. If you’re not sure on the device path for your usb device, you can take a look at the output of ‘dmesg’ or perhaps check the partition table using ‘fdisk’.