SoftDux Technical Blog

I’ve run into quite a few odd issues with CentOS 5.1 x64 & the Xen kernel. One of them being the fact that it only sees about 480MB RAM, even though my server has 2GB RAM. So, searching the net, I came across this post: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=250299 which states that grub-0.97-13 has a problem with mapping [...]

I need to / want to write ISO’s to CD’s from my Linux server, but since I don’t have an X-Manager like Gnome or KDE running, I need to find a way to write the CD’s from the command line with SSH. Luckely the server is right next to me, and it’s got a CDRW [...]

I have decided that I need a program that will run on my PC to post / edit my blog, which means I won’t need to login to my blog, http://blog.softdux.com EVERY TIME I want to post something. So, I google for "Windows blogging tools", and found this cool website, http://www.qumana.com/download_auto_editor_win.htm – from which I [...]

If you’ve ever installed a server, you’ll know how long it can sometimes take, especially if you need to setup software RAID + LVM, and then go through all the packages and deselect what you don’t need. After that you would normally download a few favorite scripts from the net, or do a yum update [...]

I have a Gigabyte GA-G31MX-S2 and I run SME Server 7.3 on it. The motherboard has an onboard Realtek 8110C Gigabit Ethernet card, which isn’t supported in CentOS 4.6 (or even CentOS 5 for that matter), so I need to manually install a driver to get it to work. Since I have a 2U server [...]

So you want to setup a local proxy to apt & yum updates for your LAN. This will help save you some bandwidth if you have a a few PC’s on the LAN that use yum to install & update any software. From the homepage, http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/http-replicator/, we can see the following: HTTP Replicator is a [...]

Recently, a client of mine needed to setup an “Out of Office”, or also known as “Vacation” reply on his email for when he traveled. Since they don’t use Microsoft Exchange, MS Outlook’s Out of Office feature didn’t work. The only way to setup an Out of Office reply, is on the mail server itself. [...]

I need to add some more features to my blog, but don’t quite have the time yet todo the research for it. One thing I REALLY need, is a way to create new posts directly from the frontend, without having to login to the backend everytime. I just don’t know if it’s possible yet, and [...]

Man, what a frustration! I couldn’t get TinyMCE to work on my WordPress installation, doesn’t matter how hard I have tried. So, I have googled & searched the WordPress forums, until I finally found something here: Link to article. According to the article, it has something todo with how TinyMCE uses zgip for compression. So, by [...]