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How to Monitor the health of your shared hosting server

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So you got yourself a shiny new web hosting package. In today’s rate, multi-gigabyte storage space and multi-terabyte network traffic is very much affordable.

The thing with this packages is that they are shared-hosting meaning you shared the same physical server with other clients. The ratio of user’s to [...]

Singapore Ubuntu mirror

I was surprised that there is no available Singapore download mirror for Ubuntu as shown here http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download:

 

If you’re in Asia, you can include the FTP server of National University of Singapore (NUS)ftp://ftp.science.nus.edu.sg/pub/ as your download source.

They also host other Linux distros as well as CPAN.

 

Update:

I got an email from Ang Kah Yik that the local [...]

Password-less login using putty on Nokia E-Series (e61)

This document will tackle on how to set password-less SSH login on Linux (Ubuntu) using RSA key

On occasion, I have the need to establish trust relationships between Unix/Linux boxes so that I can administer the box. Because OpenSSH allows you to run commands on remote systems, showing you the results directly, as well as just logging [...]

VMWare Server 2: Unable to build the vsock module

If you encounter the following error after installing VMWare Server 2.0 RCx to Ubuntu:

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/root/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only’
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.24.4-desktop-1mnb/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.24.4-desktop-1mnb’
CC [M] /root/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/linux/af_vsock.o
In file included from /root/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/linux/af_vsock.c:92:
/root/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/./include/compat_wait.h:64: error: conflicting types for ‘poll_initwait’
include/linux/poll.h:65: error: previous declaration of ‘poll_initwait’ was here
/root/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/linux/af_vsock.c:260: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/root/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/linux/af_vsock.c: In [...]

DDNS bug in DD-WRT when using the pre-set DynDNS settings

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DD-WRT provides a set of predefined configurations for the most common DDNS services. This makes updating easy.  After choosing from one of the predefined DDNS services, you just need to provide the "User Name" and the "Password" for the account of your DDNS service. In the "Host Name" field, you have to enter the [...]

DD-WRT: How to update multiple host names registered at your DDNS service

Technorati Tags: dd-wrt,dyndns,ddns,automatic IP update

Since DD-WRT v23-SP2, brainslayer, the creator/maintainer of DD-WRT, decided to replace ez-ipupdate with inadyn used for resolving WAN IP for DDNS reporting.

INADYN is a free DynDNS  client. It gives the possibility to have your own fixed hostname registered on the internet, although your IP might be changing. It checks periodically whether the [...]

rsync error: server sent "SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.3" rather than greeting

I was trying to synchronize a remote directory to local directory using rsync and ssh. This should be easy and straightforward but there is a catch, the remote server’s ssh daemon is listening on different port instead of the usual port 22.

So running the following:

rsync rsync_options remote_source local_source

.csharpcode, .csharpcode pre
{
font-size: small;
color: [...]

Panasonic using Open Source Software (OSS) on its Viera Series LCD TV

We recently bought a TV during the last IT show, a Panasonic Vierra LCD HDTV. Not the latest model but good enough for our needs, at least it has 100hz IPS panel. During my exploration of its menus, I stumbled upon this:

yes, that is a GNU L/GPL license.

Apparently, Panasonic is using AM micro-controller [...]