How to install and configure haproxy on Linux Ubuntu Debian
haproxy is one of the best known and widely used Open Source load balancers out there and a strong competitor to nginx.
haproxy is used by many large sites per Wikipedia:
HAProxy is used by a number of high-profile websites including GoDaddy, GitHub,........
from pip._internal.cli.main import main File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/pip/_internal/cli/main.py", line 60 sys.stderr.write(f"ERROR: {exc}") from pip._internal.cli.main import main File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packag
Solution for python pip3 not working anymore
from pip._internal.cli.main import main
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/pip/_internal/cli/main.py", line 60
sys.stderr.write(f"ERROR: {exc}")
wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/3.5/get-pip.py
python3 get-pip.py
DEPRECATION: Python 3.5 reached the end of its life on September 13th, 20........
Libreoffice Calc Opens CSV Spreadsheet File as Asian Language/Chinese Characters Solution Fix
Usually LIbreoffice gets it right, but if it opens a normal English CSV as UTF-16 by default and shows Asian languages, you'll have ot manually open to fix it (don't double click the file from the File Manager).
Solution - Manually Open the File After Opening LibreOffice Calc
You'll see it is defaulting to UTF-16 which breaks everything.
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mdadm kernel panic if trying to change --layout on a RAID10
It is already known this is not possible
mdadm --create /dev/md3 --level 10 --layout=f2 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1
mdadm: /dev/sdc1 appears to be part of a raid array:
level=raid10 devices=2 ctime=Sat Dec 24 18:44:29 2016
mdadm: /dev/sdd1 appears to be part of a raid array:
level=raid10 devices=2 ctime=Sat Dec 24 18:44:29 2016
Continue creating ar........
Centos 6 how to guide convert LVM non-RAID into mdadm 1/10 RAID array live without reinstalling
Here is the scenario you or a client have a remote machine that was installed as a standard/default minimal Centos 6.x machine on a single disk with LVM for whatever reason. Often many people do not know how to install it to a RAID array so it is common to have this problem and why reinstall if you don't need to? In some cases on a remote system you can't easily reinstall without physical or KVM access.
So in this case you add a second physical or disk or already ha........
LSI MegaRAID Adventures, Guide and HowTo
LSi Megaraid
At first it was configured as a RAID 0, then I deleted the Virtual Disk Group.
I thought both drives would be shown and detected in Linux as sda and sdb but it actually shows nothing.
To make them work you have to hit Ctrl+R before the system boots (when prompted) and create a Virtual Disk Group. In my case I created each one as RAID 0 (with a single drive only) as I just wanted JBOD but there is no such option or default in these Dell Pe........