Technical Stuff

Bought one of these beauties on sale from Dell this week. Replaced 3 smaller monitors with 1 monitor. > xrandr Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 3840 x 2160, maximum 16384 x 16384 DVI-I-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DVI-I-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) HDMI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DP-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DVI-D-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DP-1 connected primary 3840x2160+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 597mm x 336mm    3840x2160     60.00*+    2560x1440     59.95    1920x1200     59.88    1920x1080     60.00    60.00    59.94    50.00    23.97    60.00    50.04    1680x1050     59.95    1600x1200     60.00    1280x...

First boot the Mac Mini with the default Yosemite OS. Download the latest sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app --nointeraction Post Install configuration systemctl enable sshd.service systemctl start sshd.service Because I restored from a dump, the user directory, I found it required a Selinux relabel: groupadd vpnuser useradd vpnuser su - vpnuser restorecon -FRvv ~/ exit Additional Packages that I like: yum install rxvt-unicode-256color yum install screen yum install tigervnc yum install vim To run DNS locally for my home LAN and to cache DNS from the Internet: yum install bind-chroot # with this version of fedora, I'm finally going to move off of my ancient sendmail configuration for relaying email;  I am also going to move from relaying through verizon to relaying through gmail. # ssmtp is the new package # this ur...

Having started with Fedora 17 and then upgrading to Fedora 19, I decided that a clean install of Fedora 21 would be in order. I backed up all of my old partitions to an encrypted partition on a USB drive.  You know the old procedure cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdc1 seagate mount /dev/dm-5 /mnt/seagate Next, I booted a Fedora 21 live image (workstation) and fdisk'ed the main drive which was operating under RAID-0 through the HP device and deleted the Linux partitions but kept the winblows 7 partition (there are newer games that use DirectX > 9 that I need to be able to run occasionally and Wine/Codeweavers have not yet gotten to that level.) At this  point I hit a ton of problems with the hardware fakeraid device.  Anaconda could not handle the devices correctly.  I tried a thousand different hacks but eventually decided that I was taking too much time.  I broke the RAID-0 stripe in the Bios settings and proceeded to install Fedora 21 on 2 separate hard d...