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"The best and most original web design company I've come across. They understood my requirements and fulfilled them in every department."

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I selected Beetlebrow to create our website from a shortlist of 10 possible providers. I was greatly impressed with the time and attention they gave to the school pre-contract, with their most senior staff attending a meeting with the school to gain a sense of its ethos and expectations for its website.

Our demands were fairly exacting and at no point did they attempt to steer us in a direct that ultimately would have made their lives simpler.

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We continue to enjoy a client sensitive, truly professional service. I look forward to the planned refresh of our site shortly.

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Beetlebrow understood the brief perfectly and produced exactly the web site we wanted.

Since launch, they have provided great support and make changes promptly and efficiently. I'm very pleased to be working with them.

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"Beetlebrow are a huge asset to LessBounce.

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I don't know where we would be without them!"

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"We've found Beetlebrow professional, responsive, and incredibly creative."

"When we asked them for a design, they immediately understood our brief and came back with an idea which reflected our business perfectly."

"Sales inquiries have quadrupled since the new site went up, with many new clients commenting specifically that they came to us because they were so impressed by it."

Stephen Arkell
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Retina Productions Ltd.

 

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"Well done! I would like to thank you all for making this happen. You have been a pleasure to work with and I am delighted with the end result and I am really happy that we have made the 1 September date.

Jeremy Carr-Smith
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I am pleased to confirm how delighted I have been with beetlebrow services.

Their design, set up and continued maintenance has been excellent and continues to bring in a good and regular response.

Nigel Graves
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Kernel errors and NMI

We've been getting weird kernel errors with Centos 5.6 and our AMD-based server. Here's what we've discovered...

These are the errors we've been getting in /var/messages and on the command line.

May  2 07:22:24 lucolo0628 kernel: Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 00.
May  2 07:22:24 lucolo0628 kernel: Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled?
May  2 07:22:24 lucolo0628 kernel: Dazed and confused, but trying to continue

These have been happening every few days, but the server has been under negligible load, as it is not yet a production server.

Some research on the web seems to suggest that this is not unknown and that it's related to NMI watchdog using the High Precision Event Timer (hpet). It seems like a non-fatal bug, although it can cause some boxes to hang on boot, or to crash under heavy load, as lots of these errors are generated.

Redhat suggests either preventing hpet from being used by the kernel, or switching off the NMI watchdog. Both of these are done in the grub.conf file in /boot/grub/grub.conf.

We turned off hpet use by adding "nohpet" to the grub.conf file as follows:

title CentOS (2.6.18-308.4.1.el5)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-308.4.1.el5 ro nohpet root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
        initrd /initrd-2.6.18-308.4.1.el5.img

I'll come back and let you know if that works. In the mean time, here are some of the pages we found which led us to this workaround:

HPET change make no difference

Well, turning off HPET didn't work for us, as we got another one of the messages in the messages log on May 7th. So the next thing to try is changing the power regulation settings in the BIOS to use "OS Control" (presumably changing it from "Hardware control" or something similar) to see if Linux can control power saving modes in a way that doesn't annoy the NMI watchdog.

The next alternatives are, possibly, an upgrade to Centos 6 from 5, or turning the NMI watchdog off.

More as we get it...

 

 

 

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