Looks like consolidation in the hosting space continues as Softlayer is going to be under the same ownership as “The Planet”. For those who are not aware, GI also owns a large stake in The Planet, and I now have the pleasure of telling you that we are in discussions to merge The Planet with [...]
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Funny, here is what you get to those who have not received this yet. I got this while on YouTube unlink accounts: 500 Internal Server Error Sorry, something went wrong. A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation. If you see them, show them this information: 9tE7ZMgxBSriv_77QysO1ltAPvPBKMi_nAq0HsNCM4reIvdRU5qCmvvn-uG9 x4XTgNjGQxteXotgBV7IeeugS_eQq17zaz5OoKdyub6gP7ilQgI3bUWbZQQ7 VX6fbW3FBjOrkkOmvC1ROJHEZkysx_o6a4Y8n_vXzFL3ymU_i87bXN8RBzuk [...]
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I happened to setup a Joomla site from other hosting (zipped Joomla files and mysqldump), and after the setup on our server I got the error (below) – not exactly an error but a contents of “index.php” file. I found few Joomla related discussion regarding this issue but there’s no solution. mark( ‘afterLoad’ ) : [...]
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Good News! I recently purchased SSL certificate (GeoTrust QuickSSL Premium) for our client domain (example.com) and I was surprised because it also registered the “www” sub-domain (www.example.com). Before, you need to purchase both SSL or configure your website to redirect to either www or non-www. I am not sure if this is available on other [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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) as root. [...]
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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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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, it didn’t [...]
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