Hot-swapping non-hot-swap SATA disks on Linux

Once I had a project where I needed to swap two SATA disks every week. Shutting down, swapping, and booting up again took a lot of time, and – to be honest – was a bit uncomfortable, so I thought I will try to make the change a little bit hot.

My disks and motherboard AFAIK [...]

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Asus Eee 1101HA hangs

I have just bought an Asus Eee 1101HA and (after compiling a custom kernel with the correct drivers) it is working almost perfectly. Sometimes the whole system just hung and after a keypress the hung had gone and it was OK for a while until the next hang…

This had been happening in console and under [...]

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5853:0001 XEN device

5853:0001 is a XEN HVM virtual SCSI adapter.

Source: https://code.ticketmaster.com/trac/browser/spine/trunk/lib/Spine/Plugin/SystemInfo.pm?rev=123#L225

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Bootsplash patch for Linux kernel 2.6.32

Although the Bootsplash has been superseded by Splashy many of us liked Bootsplash. I was unable to find a patch for 2.6.32, so I made one from the patch for 2.6.30.

http://dev.kakaopor.hu/stuffs/bootsplash-3.1.6a-2.6.32.diff

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PHP4 and PHP5 per VirtualHost on the same Apache 2 webserver

I assume you have a working Apache 2 installation with PHP4 modules installed, if not run the following and you will have:

sudo apt-get install apache2 apache2-mod-php4

Note: you can also have PHP5 installed as module and PHP4 as CGI, everything works the same way with swapping the versions in commands.

First of all you will need the [...]

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