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Friday, 15th April 2011 Home » Knowledge Base » Linux
Ubuntu Ubiquity Installer Failing on RAID Remnants
Posted by root at 09:55 in Linux
While trying to install Ubuntu on an old hard drive I started encountering problems using the Ubiquity installer. I was able to complete the installation using the alternative CD with dmraid (SATA or Fake RAID) disabled. After tracing the problem to the old drive having once been used in a BIOS RAID Array I next had to search for a means to removing the RAID information from the drive meta-data with out losing or destroying any data.

Friday, 9th July 2010 Home » Knowledge Base » Windows
Windows, Disable Caps Lock Key
Posted by root at 19:13 in Windows
The caps lock key is one of those remnants of another age of computers, back when people used to shout at each other more often. Since it’s not entirely useful anymore we’ll learn how to disable it. If you aren’t interested in the explanation you can skip to the bottom for the registry files.

Friday, 9th July 2010 Home » Knowledge Base » Windows
Block Negative DNS Entries
Posted by root at 12:58 in Windows
Windows contains a client-side Domain Name System (DNS) cache. The client-side DNS caching feature may cache results when no valid IP address was found. This article describes how to disable DNS caching for these Negative Entries.

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