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Ubuntu 7.10 a.k.a Gutsy Gibbon on Asus W3J

had a hard time installing Gutsy on my W3J but my persistent paid off,

I used the official driver from AMD/ATI and by using this easy to follow guide [...]

Linux-friendly Minimart using Linux POS in Phuket Thailand

I was reading my backlog mails including my PLUG subscription when I stumbled upon a topic that was discuss recently. Someone mentioned that a chain of popular grocery store in the Philippines had migrated to a Linux-based POS when their license agreement has expired.

I remembered to have seen a Linux-based POS in one of chain [...]

Monitoring UNIX Application Performance

Application Monitoring is a very important aspect of a project. Unfortunately, not much attention is being is paid to develop an effective monitoring while the project is not live. Once the project is live, the lack of proper monitoring factors in terms of downtime when the support person is not aware if application [...]

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

Technorati Tags: dd-wrt,dyndns,ddns

 

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

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