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Tuesday, April 6 2010

MediaWiki 404 Errors

Whenever a wiki page that doesn't exist is accessed in MediaWiki, it logs a 404 error in the Apache logs. This quickly adds up to a lot of false-positives on 404 reports for something that is normal operation for MediaWiki.

MediaWiki is doing the correct thing here -- if the page doesn't exist, then 404 should be the HTTP status code. But at the same time, as a system admin, I don't care about these particular 404 errors, so I don't want to be bothered by them in my logs.

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Saturday, January 30 2010

Migrating Physical Machine to Virtual Machine

This a quick step-by-step for migrating a Physical computer to a Virtual Box instance. It was written for an Arch Linux based installation, and requires no special software except for an Arch Linux installation CD / ISO image.

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Monday, November 2 2009

Adding Swatch Internet Time to Gnome

How to add an applet to your Gnome panel displaying Swatch Internet Time

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Friday, January 9 2009

Custom Partitioning on ArchLinux with Linode

Partitioning schemes are a hot topic and everyone has their own preference. Including me. I'm not going to tell you how you should partition your Linux setup, but I will tell you how to do it in ArchLinux on a Linode. I used LVM and will be using LVM in this post.

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