According to Wiki, there are over 300 different Linux distributions. Some of the more well known are Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Debian, Suse, Ubuntu, Fedora, Centos, FreeBSD etc.
Fedora 9 and NFS
I am using Fedora 9 as a client to connect to a Solaris 9 machine. Strangely it kept failing and after some Google time, all is revealed. NFS is logged as a bug in Bugzilla.
What is the equivalent command for ??? in Linux?
How to find a Solaris command for ??? in Linux? or vice versa? or AIX, BSD? Check out the Rosetta Stone for Unix.
Disk to disk cloning a server
Disk to disk cloning a server is a really old way of cloning. Insert a new disk of similar size, boot an independent OS eg Live CD, Ubuntu or Knoppix to clone from old to the new disk.
6 degrees of separation
Recently I attended a wedding dinner. This was held for my brother-in-law at the Paramount Hotel. There was this guy in the crowd that looks vaguely familiar. He had the same strange feeling. So we went “Haven’t seen you somewhere…
Administrating VMware Server’s Guest OS using scripts
Sometimes you need to control the guest OS or the virtuals by script. Good example is stopping all the guests or virtuals to take a backup. For VMware server, this is controlled by using Perl script via vmware-cmd.
Creating a Linux Virtual Machine
Recently I have the chance to create a Fedora 9 virtual machine on VMware server. This is to replace a crashed server that ran out of disk space. Since it was running off a Compaq ML server. I thought this…
Mass Import into Movable Type 4 is now broken
I was planning to go live when I remembered I still have a bunch of photos to publish. An excellent opportunity to test mass import into the blog. That gave me a shock
Posted to a charity organization
Going there to straighten out the processes.
Death in the family
This is more of a placeholder for me. How bereavement affects children How do children learn about death? As adults, we know that death is universal, inevitable and the end of physical life. But children’s understanding of death comes gradually.…