Dell R710 Gaming Rig

Problems:

Installed an ssd into the disk 0 and placed it in RAID 0.  I had to print this to install the ssd into the existing drive caddy.  Update all the firmwares to the latest for the R710 using the iso images found here. (latest image as of this update was 2017-08-04)

Replace the PERC/6 with a PERC H700

Use the following Riser Cable and the 16x powered adapter from above

Backing Linux up to Blu-Ray

Reference link (link)

  • truncate –size=25GB /big/disk/mybr.udf
  • mkudffs /bigdisk/mybr.udf
  • mkudffs /bigdisk/mybr.udf
  • mount -oloop,rw /bigdisk/mybr.udf /mnt/test
  • growisofs -speed=1 -Z /dev/dvd=/bigdisk/mybr.udf (grow the iso to 25gb)
  • Install deps:  yum -y install cdw udftools

Some links to help learn how to do this:

  • http://allgood38.io/burn-bluray-data-disks-on-linux-minimize-coasters.html
  • http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/blu-ray-backup.htm
  • http://linuxhacksandfixes.blogspot.com/2013/02/recording-data-blu-ray-from-command-line.html
  • block added

Upgrading from php 3 to php4

How to pugrade from php3 to php4 on a CentOS 6 system.

wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm
rpm -Uvh remi-release-6*.rpm
yum –enablerepo=remi upgrade php-mysql php-devel php-gd php-pecl-memcache php-pspell php-snmp php-xmlrpc php-xml

Reference:
http://linuxdrops.com/how-to-add-epel-and-remi-repository-to-centos/

Installing Redmine and Ruby

Doing this install on Centos 6.

 

rvm use 1.9.3 –default
rvm rubygems current
gem install rails
gem install passenger
service httpd restart

useradd -c “Redmine Admin” -G rvm redmine

su – redmine

wget http://www.redmine.org/releases/redmine-3.0.1.tar.gz (Redmine Project here)

tar zxvf redmine-3.0.1.tar.gz

cd redmine-3.0.1

 

CREATE DATABASE redmine CHARACTER SET utf8;
CREATE USER 'redmine'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'letmein';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON redmine.* TO 'redmine'@'localhost';

cp  config/database.yml.example config/database.yml

 

References:

installation doc I used (here)

Conventions I like to attend

Defcon

  • 23 – 2015: Aug 6-9 @  Paris/Bally’s Las Vegas ($230 USD Cash a the door)
  • 24 – 2016: August 4-7, 2016
  • 25 – 2017: July 27-30, 2017

Animefest

  • 2015: Sept 4-7 @ Sheraton Dallas Hotel

Quakecon

  • 2015 -: July 23-26 @ Hilton Anatole, Dallas, TX

A-con

  • 26 – 2015: June 5-7 @ Hilton Anatole, Dallas, TX

All con