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blockdev & PERC 6i RAID controller

Recently I have done some informal disk performance test on my newly arrived workstations. (copy a 1GB text file on the same file system).

On a Dell Precsion T3500 with Linux software RAID1 of 2x500GB SATA disk with AHCI enabled :

[root@gsx42 disk1]# time cp a b real 0m4.499s user 0m0.054s sys 0m1.367s

On our […]

nautilus samba NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE

Samba client cannot authenticate, possible bad password error: You may run into odd errors authenticating if Samba and the server (Windows or Samba) do not agree on whether to use LANMAN, NTLM, or NTLMv2. If this happens, you may receive a NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE with Samba, and the server will have a Bad Password error (0xC000006A in […]

Ubuntu – a first try

Have installed Ubuntu desktop 9.10 on an old Dell Precision 450 which I plan to use it to replace my old Fedora 8 Linux desktop. I have been a fan of RedHatLinux/CentOS/Fedora for a long time so haven’t tried Ubuntu since they are just different in installation method and management interface. All they just give […]