I’d love to go into detail about how I hacked together this awesome way to install wubi from the loopback mount onto it’s own partition. Truth be told, save for a quick boot loader edit, I did almost nothing.

Take a look at this site: http://lubi.sourceforge.net/lvpm.html for a complete, visual step-by-step on how to install your wubi instance directly to your hard drive.

The only issue I ran into was with booting into Parted Magic. The DEB I was instructed to install pointed at the wrong disk for root() in the GRUB line. It was as easy as editing /boot/grub/menu.lst to point it at the right place.

In /boot/grub/menu.lst search for ubninit. Change the root line above where you landed to look like this:

root(hd0,)

Rather than this:

root(hd1,)

Enjoy!

Today I had to yank a line from my ~/.ssh/known_hosts file on my jump box here at the office and I noticed that I had a lot of known hosts! I’d be interested to see how many you have.

My work jump box:

bsmith@ops654 [09:06:04 (0.00)] ~/.ssh 
-> wc -l known_hosts 
1155 known_hosts

My desktop:

AGCOM\bsmith@bsmith-laptop [09:07:21 (0.22)] ~/.ssh 
-> wc -l known_hosts 
65 known_hosts

PyOhio is a day long mini conference for Python programmers in and around Ohio. It will be held Saturday, July 26, 2008 from 9:00 to 6:00 at the Columbus Metropolitan Library.

We have some great talks scheduled. We are also planning on having Lightning Talks, Open Spaces and a Poster Session.

Did I mention that it is free as in beer?

You can register by going to http://www.pyohio.org/reg/register/.

Here is a fun command we use at the office that makes extracting hardware info from a remote machine easy as pie. It’s called dmidecode and it can be quite useful. Here is one section of the information it can provide, extracted from one of my servers(some bits removed):

 Handle 0x0100
    DMI type 1, 27 bytes.
    System Information
            Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
            Product Name: PowerEdge 1950
            Version: Not Specified
            Serial Number: XXXXXX
            UUID: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
            Wake-up Type: Power Switch

You are, unfortunately, at the mercy of the hardware manufacturer for accuracy of the hardware information, but thus far I’ve found it to be accurate.

Enjoy.