Scott Klarr Jr
Topics About Hardware
Apr 10, 2008 Linux: Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module
After upgrading to the 64 bit version of Mandriva Linux, my ATI video card ran even worse than before. This was the last straw and so I finally came into possession of a new Nvidia based video card. While slapping it in my computer, In the back of my mind i had a pretty good feeling that it wasn't going to be as smooth as one would hope. I was right.
Feb 27, 2008 How to mount and unmount a drive in linux
The mounting point path must already be created with proper permissions. So a more likely flow of commands would be
Feb 27, 2008 How to setup a drive in linux with friendly permissions
As with most aspects of linux, simply adding an extra drive can become a chore and headache for those with no previous experience. Here is a simple way to setup a hard drive so that it will automatically mount on boot with friendly permissions so all users can read/write. If you need added security on a computer that others use, then you'll need to do some more searching on setting up permissions, but a shared drive will be suffice for most desktop linux users who are new to this.
Dec 11, 2007 How RAID-5 really works
RAID is an acronym for "Redundant Array of Independent Drives," or "Redundant Array of Inexpensive Drives." The main concept of RAID is the ability to take multiple drives and have them virtualised as a single drive. There are many different RAID structures, all of them obtain one of two primary purposes: aggregated storage space or data redundancy (as in, protection against data loss in the even of hard drive failure). I'm not going into the details of all the RAID levels as this post is more geared towards the lower level workings of RAID-5. If you wish to learn about all the RAID levels, see this Wikipedia Article On RAID.
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