Our Redmine instance authenticates users against our institute’s LDAP server. The other day they moved the LDAP service to a new machine and the IP changed, which locked us out of Redmine. If this happens to you, you can easily change the LDAP server in the Redmine database. We’re using sqlite, but the concept should […]
I’ve been using Con Kolivas’ linux-ck patch set for a few years now. If you’ve ever asked yourself “It’s 2013, why does my music playback skip when I do too many things on my computer?!” then you probably need to look if your distro has a ck-patched kernel. A large part of the ck patch […]
I bought an album on Google Play Music today. Upon inspecting the ID3 tags I noticed a few ugly PRIV tags, but I couldn’t figure out how to get rid of them; none of the ID3 tag editors (puddletag, eyeD3, easytag, etc) or MP3 players (Quod Libet, Ex Falso, Rhythmbox, etc) would even display them. […]
I recently re-worked our SLURM configuration to extrapolate the number of logical CPUs based on Sockets, Cores, and Threads. Therefore, a machine with four eight-core Xeons and HyperThreading would have 64 logical CPUs available to SLURM; 4 * 8 * 2 = 64. I thought I was being clever, but it turned out to bite […]
If you’ve got more than two or three CentOS machines on your network, it’s really a waste of time and bandwidth for each machine to download the same updates as the previous/next machine. Or, sometimes you tell your users “I just need 5 minutes to run some updates and reboot” and it ends up being […]