Scott's CSE Blog

Howto's, notes, and news related to CSE at UC Davis

How to Build a Xen Server

Here is what you need to do to build a Xen server. We are using Xen a lot here at CSE and it is allowing us to do some interesting things on the Systems Management front. Here I describe some of our reasoning for using Xen, LVM and in the future an iSCSI SAN.

How to Setup Email Forwarding on a Rocks Cluster

This short article covers how to setup email forwarding on a Rocks 4.1+ cluster

How to Enable RSS Syndication in Plone

Plone can generate an RSS feed for data in a folder. This document shows you how.

Commuting from Sacramento to UC Davis

I've been commuting from the UCDMC to UC Davis campus by shuttle. This page tells you how to do it. I'm going to be setting up automatic, pre-tax withdrawals for the monthly pass. It ends up being around $1.50/day.

Linux Software RAID

Notes on how to manage software RAID in linux

Add User to OSX

A script to add users via the command line in OSX

Modify Zope Identification Headers

This page shows you how to modify what Zope sends in the HTTP "Server" header.

Fix Locale Errors in Ubuntu

For some reason the locale settings will break in Ubuntu. Here's what you have to do to fix things.

Check Unix Password Hash in MySQL

Here's how you use MySQL to verify a password when using UNIX password hashes in a MySQL database.

How to Setup a Subversion Repository

This howto describes how to create a new repository at CSE

CSE Entity Relationship Diagram Source

This is an ERD for the CSE database. You can view/edit this model using: http://ondras.praha12.net/sql/demo/

CSE Entity Relationship Diagram Image

A ERD for the CSE database

Pinning Software Packages in Ubuntu

Ubuntu has an excellent package management system and this page describes how to prevent upgrades of specific packages.

NSF Cyberinfrastructure Vision

The National Science Foundation's Cyberinfrastructure Council, based on extensive input from the research community, has developed a comprehensive vision to guide the NSF's future investments in cyberinfrastructure (CI). The final version of NSF's CI vision was recently released in an ambitious report entitled Cyberinfrastructure Vision for 21st Century Discovery.

Intro to netcat

A few common commands for netcat

thinkpad 2668 docs

Rundle's laptop

3ware 9650SE with large disk arrays

The 3ware 9650SE controller causes a kernel panic when running fdisk. This doc explains why.