Archive for the ‘System Adminstration’ Category

Installing a Loopback Adapter on a DHCP host

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) assigns dynamic IP addresses on a network. So each time the computer connects to the network, DHCP allows a computer to have a different IP address. But in some cases, like when installing Oracle Database or Oracle Business Intelligence, you need to assign a local IP address to that computer. [...]

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Posted in: System Adminstration, Windows | February 28, 2011
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LXC 0.7 in Gentoo Linux – updated

LXC 0.7 is available as an upgrade in Gentoo Linux. After you get it you may have a surprise… no console output after lxc-start. It seems it is not a bug but a feature :) (as always with software). To get back the output just add -s lxc.console=$(tty) to the command line, like: # lxc-start [...]

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Posted in: Linux | June 25, 2010
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LXC with Gentoo Linux

VMWare (Server, Player, ESX), VirtualBox, KVM/QEMU  are just a few of the virtualization technologies you can use if you need to run a generic virtual machine. Each has strong and weak points, each adds some overhead when running the virtual machine, each can prove useful in a given scenario. I’ve used more or less extensively [...]

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Posted in: Linux | June 3, 2010
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SSH TCP Port Forwarding aka poor man's VPN

In today’s world when the IPv4 addresses are a luxury and IPv6 is not wide deployed (yet) more and more servers are running behind NAT-ed addresses. To do remote management on these servers you connect to them using SSH through some port forwarding done on the border gateway. If you need to monitor these servers [...]

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Posted in: Linux, System Adminstration | April 15, 2010
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Run Internet Explorer on Linux

A problem that many web developers face when they switch from Microsoft Windows to an open source operating system (Ubuntu, Fedora, Archlinux, OpenSUSE, Mandriva, Debian, BSD etc.) is the imposibility of running tests on Internet Explorer, since IE is officially suported only on Windows.

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Posted in: Linux | February 2, 2010
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Google Chrome OS opens up as Chromium OS

After the bomb announcement 6 months ago, Google has open sourced its first operating system under the name Chromium OS, which will be the core for the release of Chrome OS, a year later. As of today, the code for next generation operating system will be fully open, from the code base till the user [...]

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Posted in: Linux | November 20, 2009
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Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala released

Canonical is holding their word when it comes on the strict release schedule of Ubuntu releases. Ubuntu 9.10, with the codename Karmic Koala, has been released yesterday 29 October, a week after the release of Microsoft’s Windows 7.

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Posted in: Linux | October 30, 2009
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Use Traveler 8.5.1 with iPhone

Today I’ve update for testing Traveler from 8.5 to Traveler 8.5.1 – this process was made on Windows environment. To update Traveler first you have to update Domino server – that is simple following steps from self extracting installation (CZ5RTEN archive) – it detect actual version of Domino installed and if it is 8.5 it [...]

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Posted in: System Adminstration | October 13, 2009
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Lotus Domino 8.5.1 available for Download

If you are using Domino and Lotus Notes is good to know that 8.5.1 release is available for download from IBM.

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Posted in: Linux, Lotus Notes, System Adminstration, Windows | October 13, 2009
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How to install WSO2 WSF/PHP on SUSE Linux

If you need to install the WSF/PHP extension on a SUSE Linux with GCC 4.1.2 (pretty old) and receive some strange errors with missing libraries (even if you think / see they are there and even if you followed a la lettre the documentation) you may try the following approach:

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Posted in: Linux | June 30, 2009
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