Puppet Data Centre Automation Solution, Part 4: Classes & Modules
We learned about some of the interesting ways Puppet helps automate things in Part 3. In the final part of this series, we look at the rules to follow to effectively organise Puppet…
Gitolite: Administer a Central Git Repository without Going Insane
Over the past few years, centralised version control systems like SVN have steadily given way to distributed systems like Git or Mercurial — the former undoubtedly the more powerful and popular of the…
Understanding a Kernel Oops!
Understanding a kernel panic and doing the forensics to trace the bug is considered a hacker’s job. This is a complex task that requires sound knowledge of both the architecture you are working…
Device Drivers, Part 3: Kernel C Extras in a Linux Driver
This article in the series on Linux device drivers deals with the kernel’s message logging, and kernel-specific GCC extensions. Enthused by how Pugs impressed their professor in the last class, Shweta wanted to…
Puppet Data Centre Automation Solution, Part 3: Resource Types & Example Configs
The previous article in this series focused on creating users, groups and files (based on home directories). Let’s now look at the various types of resources provided by Puppet, by default, and at…
Exploring Software: What Makes Netbook Hotkeys Tick!
This article explores the often confusing issues around ACPI handling in Linux, with the particular perspective of getting hotkeys working on netbooks. One weakness of Linux on laptops and netbooks is that not…
Fedora 14 Review: I’m Smiling About Laughlin
I was initially a KDE user, but for a long time, I’ve been using GNOME on Ubuntu. This is because there has always been some serious bug or the other in KDE, ever…
Exploring Software: Understanding a Netbook Desktop
Desktop environments are wonderful in the way they just work. The complexity of what is happening “below the hood” is well hidden from us. Looking at the various netbook options, I was curious…
Puppet Data Centre Automation Solution, Part 1: Setting Up Master & Client
Managing data centres comprising hundreds of systems is tough. Fortunately, configuration-management systems help bring things under control, by automating common configuration tasks, making systems manageable from a central location. This article focuses on…
Exploring Software: Netbook Operating Systems
A modern netbook is likely to have 150 GB of disk space, 1 GB of RAM, a screen resolution of 1024×800 pixels, and a wide range of connectivity options. It can hardly be…
June 20, 2013
Suhas — Very helpful. Thank you.
June 19, 2013
anil_pugalia — Just load the usb-storage driver back. Or, just plug out & plug in the pen drive.
