Install Google Chrome on Fedora 19

Add the following to /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo: Pick a version, stable, beta or unstable and install with the following command: Ref: http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/install-google-chrome-with-yum-on-fedora-red-hat-rhel/

November 15, 2013 · 1 min · 20 words · kenno

Permanently Disable Search Indexing In Windows 8

This post is mainly to remind me how to disable the search indexing. On the start screen type: services.msc. Once the service dialog windows opened, look for “Windows Search”. Right click on it, and select Properties. In the Startup type drop-down list, select Disabled. Full credit goes to this link: http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/how-to-permanently-disable-search-indexing-in-windows-8/.

November 4, 2013 · 1 min · 51 words · kenno

Upgrade existing Perl 5.12 to Perl 5.18 on FreeBSD 9

Recently I’ve been trying to update the perl package on my FreeBSD box to the latest version 5.18 without any success. Here’s a snippet of the error message: Creating various symlinks in /usr/bin... Symlinking /usr/local/bin/perl5.18.1 to /usr/bin/perl Symlinking /usr/local/bin/perl5.18.1 to /usr/bin/perl5 Done. Installing perl5.18-5.18.1_2...pkg-static: perl5.18-5.18.1_2 conflicts with perl-5.12.5 (installs files into the same place). Problematic file: /usr/local/bin/a2p *** [fake-pkg] Error code 70 Stop in /usr/ports/lang/perl5.18. *** [install] Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/lang/perl5.18. ===>>> Installation of perl5.18-5.18.1_2 (lang/perl5.18) failed ===>>> Aborting update ===>>> Killing background jobs Terminated ===>>> You can restart from the point of failure with this command line: portmaster lang/perl5.18 ===>>> Exiting So I turned to Google to see if other people experienced the same thing as me. According to an answer to a similar question about upgrading perl on serverfault.com, one should read ...

October 30, 2013 · 2 min · 362 words · kenno

ZFS on CentOS

First we need to add the ZFS on Linux repository to our system by installing a zfs-release package as shown below: $ sudo yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://archive.zfsonlinux.org/epel/zfs-release-1-3.el6.noarch.rpm $ sudo yum install zfs Once, zfs has been installed, we can create a storage pool. There’re many RAID configuration to choose from, and I’m not going to get into it. However, if you want to learn more, you can read this ZFS Administration article which explains in great detail about ZFS RAID(Z). ...

October 8, 2013 · 1 min · 144 words · kenno

Portsnap snapshot corrupt

ថ្ងៃ​នេះខ្ញុំ​​មាន​បញ្ហា​ជាមួយ​ portsnap លើ​ FreeBSD ស៊ើវើ។ ពេល​ខ្ញុំ​រត់​ខំម៉ាន​ portsnap fetch upate មាន​ពត៌មាន​ដូច​នេះ /usr/ports/files/.gz not found — snapshot corrupt. តាម​ប្លក់នេះ របៀប​ជួសជុល​វា មិន​ពិបាកទេ។ rm -rf /var/db/portsnap/* portsnap fetch portsnap extract Source: http://neonpulse.net/2008/11/20/portsnap-corrupt-snapshot/

October 7, 2013 · 1 min · 28 words · kenno