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Black Friday – 404, Site not available, and others from your favorite sites

November 25th, 2009 · No Comments

404 and error pages on world’s biggest sites images of

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Tags: Installation

XEN VM mount external devices

November 23rd, 2009 · 1 Comment

Adding additional block devices to XEN guests is accomplished using xm block-attach command. In this example I am exporting an external USB hard drive that was recognized as /dev/sda1 by the hosts kernel. Important thing to keep in mind is that you must use xvdX as the guest block device name.
xm block-attach 6 phy:/dev/sda1 /dev/xvda1 [...]

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Tags: Installation

MySQL sale to Oracle blocked by EU

November 10th, 2009 · No Comments

Today the EU createded a serious road block on the road to the merger of Sun Microsystems and Oracle.  Here is the timeline of events up to now.

European antitrust authorities formally objected to Oracle Corp.’s proposed purchase of Sun Microsystems Inc., complicating a $7.4 billion deal that U.S. officials had already blessed.
The companies said Monday [...]

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Tags: Installation

Can’t Set Root Password In Ubuntu

November 9th, 2009 · No Comments

I installed Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) to my new laptop (HP EliteBook 6930p), and first on my to-do list is to set the root password so I can do additional package installations and configurations. But this time, after I unlocked and set password for my root account, i still can’t login (via terminal) [...]

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Amazon EC2 prices fall + High Memory Instances + RDS

October 27th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Amazon announced a couple of cool new things this morning. Standard and High CPU Linux/UNIX EC2 instances hourly prices in the US and Europe have dropped by 15% and will go into effect November 1st. 2 new types of EC2 instance is now available called “High-Memory”. High-Memory Instances are designed to be used with memory-intensive [...]

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Problem with Lilo Boot Loader

October 27th, 2009 · No Comments

Lately, we installed additional memory on our Debian (lenny) servers and installed ‘bigmem’ kernel for our 32-bit systems to recognize more than 3GB of ram. Bigmem kernel installations went fine on servers with Grub as their boot loader – most of them uses Grub. But on one machine with Lilo as boot loader, [...]

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Tags: Debian · Installation

WhiteHouse.org goes Open Source – with Drupal

October 25th, 2009 · No Comments

See the www.whitehouse.org story at TechPresident.com, here is the excerpt:
WhiteHouse.gov has gone Drupal. After months of planning, says an Obama Administration source, the White House has ditched the proprietary content management system that had been in place since the days of the Bush Administration in favor of the latest version of the open-source Drupal software, as [...]

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Tags: Installation

Linux will take mobile with Android, plus Android turns one!

October 25th, 2009 · No Comments

While we all love linux here at LInux System Admin Blog – we do however have different favorites for mobile devices.   Yes, the big favorite is the iPhone, not for me though.  I have been excited about the Android OS and the devices ever since I have heard about it.
This week the devices have [...]

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php 5.2.9 on RHEL5.x (for Drupal 6)

October 21st, 2009 · No Comments

Latest version of PHP available for RHEL5.x is 5.1.6 and no new RedHat releases are coming as packaging has ceased. You can get PHP 5.3 for RHEL5 from Remi, but it it’s incompatible with latest versions of Drupal, Civicrm or many modules so we need the a 5.2X branch of PHP. This requires building php [...]

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Tags: HowTo · Installation · drupal

Change Squid outgoing address

October 19th, 2009 · No Comments

Typically Squid caching proxy server listen and outgoing IP address are the same. Sometimes, for various reasons we want to alter the outgoing IP address. The new address must first be brought up as an interface on the squid server. In squid.conf look for tcp_outgoing_address line, uncomment it and replace the default IP value with [...]

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Tags: Installation · Tips and Tricks · sysadmin