Fix your virt-manager install

This applies to virt-manager 0.10.0.1 Kubuntu 13.10 64bit at the time of writing. That means it also probably applies to all Ubuntu variants of Debain (details in bug 736547).

For whatever reason this version is badly packaged and has missing dependencies. It you are having problems running virt-manager, open a terminal and execute the following:

. . . → Read More: Fix your virt-manager install

“df” no longer shows all mounted mounts!

This was a small surprise after the latest updates to Gentoo…

The command “df” shows all presently mounted filesystems… Except it doesn’t for the latest version!

For the df version now on Gentoo:

# df –version df (GNU coreutils) 8.21 Packaged by Gentoo (8.21 (p1.0)) Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

you now only . . . → Read More: “df” no longer shows all mounted mounts!

Mounting USB media (hint/tip, btrfs)

Some good tips from the btrfs newsgroup for mounting removable media:

> Better yet, if your btrfs is actually on /dev/sdc right now, let’s get that fstab entry mounting it by UUID instead. > > ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid | grep sdc > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 3 09:40 12345678-9abc0-1234-5678-9a0123456789 -> ../../sdc > > . . . → Read More: Mounting USB media (hint/tip, btrfs)

The missing firewall logs of DD-WRT

As far as I know, this applies to all versions of DD-WRT at the time of writing (2014/01/08 [yyyy/mm/dd]).

DD-WRT is a really good piece of firmware for your router. Stable, functional, customisable and configurable. Unfortunately it has one or two glitches and one of those affects the firewall logs. DD-WRT comes in a number . . . → Read More: The missing firewall logs of DD-WRT

Access your own domain from within your LAN (NAT loopback on DD-WRT issue)

This seems to apply to all versions of DD-WRT at the time of writing (2014/01/06 [yyyy/mm/dd]).

You’ve just bought yourself a domain (foo.bar). You test your webserver from within the LAN “https://myserver” and it works. Joy!

You then update your public DNS record with an “A” entry, point it at your WAN IP (which your . . . → Read More: Access your own domain from within your LAN (NAT loopback on DD-WRT issue)