Monthly Archives: February 2012

XBMC on ATV2

Posted on February 29, 2012 by michaelf

Finally got around to putting XBMC back on my ATV2 unit. Some of the plugins available are great. i.e. ABC iView etc. Not to mention MythBox and a few others. Just so I dont forget some things the next time … Continue reading →

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Diet changes

Posted on February 26, 2012 by michaelf

My wife has been taking part in the Michelle Bridges 12 week body transformation, and I’ve been eating the same food (and sticking to my allowed calorie intake). Last week I lost 1kg just by changing my diet. Honestly the … Continue reading →

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BURP

Posted on February 26, 2012 by michaelf

While reading my rss feeds, I saw someone mentioned BURP – Backup and Restore Program for linux. I am going to make the time to check it out, as it to run in phases similar to what CommVault Simpana does. … Continue reading →

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LPI Level 2 Exam 201 passed

Posted on February 20, 2012 by michaelf

I sat my LPI Level 2 Exam 201 today and passed.  Now all I need to do is tackle Exam 202 and I will get my LPIC-2 certification. It’s certainly on the agenda to complete, will start reading the next … Continue reading →

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Simpana 9.0 SP5a is available

Posted on February 18, 2012 by michaelf

Simpana 9.0 SP5a is available on CommVault’s Maintenance Advantage portal.

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OMG Ubuntu 11.10 and Unity

Posted on February 8, 2012 by michaelf

What on earth was Ubuntu thinking when it introduced Unity. I dislike it a lot. Infact I heard today they dropped the development team working on Kubuntu too. What on earth is going on.

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Windows System State backup via Simpana 9.0 CentOS/RHEL 6.2 MediaAgent

Posted on February 8, 2012 by michaelf

If you run Simpana 9.0 and have some issues backing up Windows System State via CentOS/RHEL 6.2 MediaAgents, don’t fear SP5a will fix some quirks. I had an issue matching the above and seems it will be resolved in SP5a … Continue reading →

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NetworkManager on CentOS 6.2

Posted on February 1, 2012 by michaelf

Seems NetworkManager is driving everyone bonkers still and not just me. I did a GUI install and disabled the use of NetworkManager yet the stupid thing still seems to blow away my resolv.conf and better still not populated it even … Continue reading →

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