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Installing rr26xx driver on Ubuntu server 12.10

April 2, 2013 — Leave a comment

I recently upgraded my home server with a HighPoint RocketRAID 2640×1 PCI-Express RAID Controller Card. I had the option of software RAID but I figured that I might as well go hardware since the price really wasnt that bad and in case of a software issue the RAID Array should keep working upon a system reinstall.

Unfortunaly the required module for the card is not built into the kernel or available as a packge for Ubuntu 12.10 so I had to compile it manually to get it working.

Outlined below are the steps that I took to get it working on my system, results may vary but this works great and is using an updated version of module (most other info I found was for version 1.2 this is 1.5)

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How to combine MP4 files on the Ubuntu CLI

February 27, 2013 — Leave a comment

If you are looking to combine MP4 files from the command line here is the easiest solution.  First you need to use the following command to install the program.

Once installed you will be able to run the following command to join the files.

You should now be able to combine MP4 files from the command line, and pretty quick at that.

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Add a progress bar to copy command in linux

August 20, 2012 — 3 Comments

I was looking for a way to have a progress bar when using the cp command as I move a lot of files over my LAN from my server to my Drobo, and wanted to know the transfer speeds. Since cp doesn’t have an option to show a progress bar I came across this handy modification you can make to your bash profile.

Works quite well and you now have a nice progress bar when copying files via the command line.

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APF Firewall wont start on Ubuntu 11.10, Kernel 3.x

March 1, 2012

I recently setup an 64bit Ubuntu 11.10 install over at 6Sync for some development projects.  While it will probably not end up hosting anything of real importance and will be recycled shortly I figured it would still be a good idea to put a firewall on it to help aid in protecting it from bored script kiddies.
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