Category Archives: Unix/Linux

Unix and Linux Stuff

Parsing the Windows sfc log from unix

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Alexandre Gauthier

Just a quick line to mention that the Windows System File Checker tool produces logs that are nearly unreadable, and a pain to parse. A friend of mine had some system files that did not check out, and could not … Continue reading →

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I’m weak

Posted on July 23, 2008 by Alexandre Gauthier

I really am. I got an iPhone 3G. Mitigating factors are that the camera is really awesome, and also that I got root on it, voiding my warranty a mere fifteen minutes after unboxing it. You might also enjoy:Building the … Continue reading →

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Mounting LVM Volumes inside a VMWare Disk Image

Posted on September 7, 2007 by Alexandre Gauthier

So, the situation is this. I’m sitting remotely at a client site, and suddendly, due to some sleep-deprived slip-up, ended up erasing part of the configuration for their local server. Being the kind of guy to plan things through before … Continue reading →

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Courier imap and vpopmail on Debian

Posted on May 20, 2007 by Alexandre Gauthier

Hi everyone. Sorry for the lack of updates, I’ve been fairly busy — I’m migrating all of my servers to a single, brand new Dell Poweredge 2900 server. I have a couple of great tutorials regarding Xen coming up soon, … Continue reading →

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Update on the Apache-Hangs-On-Digest-Generation topic

Posted on February 14, 2007 by Alexandre Gauthier

Just to let everyone know I’ve poked my head in the Apache2 hanging on digest generation problem again, and figured out a better solution than relying on rng-utils. Check it out. You might also enjoy:Sharing, Syncing and editing iCal over … Continue reading →

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Great Scott, Apple

Posted on September 14, 2006 by Alexandre Gauthier

By Sithis, where is my gcc 3 for x86? /usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/3.3/cc1plus /usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/3.3-fast/cc1plus /usr/libexec/gcc/i686-apple-darwin8/4.0.1/cc1plus /usr/libexec/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin8/4.0.1/cc1plus That explains why there’s a crapload of things I can’t build on my intel Mac. C compiler cannot create executables, yeah well, that makes sense. I guess … Continue reading →

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Gentoo can be annoying, sometimes

Posted on August 20, 2006 by Alexandre Gauthier

The next best thing to getting ran over by an 18th wheeler would be having a gentoo baselayout update breaking havoc over your mail server. I have no idea why, but Courier, which is the mail server suite I use, … Continue reading →

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