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I was looking for the correct BIOS multiplier settings for an Intel 5200 CPU so that I could setup the motherboard correctly without causing harm to either the CPU or motherboard. The following URL, http://ixbtlabs.com/articles3/cpu/intel-pentium-e5200-p1.html has a great list of all the more commong Core 2 Duo CPU’s we use today and was very handy [...]
2008 has gone by quicker than I thought, but it’s not necessarily a bad thing A new year means new things, new ideas, new ventures, etc. So, I’m looking forward to a great year full of expectation for growth in many areas of my life and my business. May 2009 be a blessed year!
One often needs to use PASSIVE / PASV mode for FTP transfers to work successfully on some FTP servers, especially if you are on a network which is being NAT’ed by an ADSL / DSL / wireless router. Microsoft’s command line FTP program (ftp.exe) doesn’t have the PASV / PASSIVE command, so how do you [...]
I found this cool game on clusters: http://www.rcac.purdue.edu/rackanode/ you basically need to build a cluster, and then process some data with it. You start off with some cash and need to choose your first server. Once the server is in place you’ll get some data to process and some more cash upon successful processing the [...]
So, I want to start looking into setting up a XEN cluster on Linux, which will provide high-uptime for Linux & Widows guest operating systems. This will be my first attempt to this, so I’m treading in deep waters, but it should be fun setting up. It’s rather late right now, so I’m not getting [...]
XEN uses /dev/ttyS0 for it’s own internal console, which is a neat way to manage the XEN server and access the console from another machine. But, this also means that you won’t be able to use the computer / server’s serial port to access for instance a network switch or serial UPS from Linux. If [...]
I often need to find out what’s using up a lot of space in a user’s folder, or on a backup server. The easiest way is to use Linux’s “du” or Disk Usage command. The following command will show you the sizes of the different folders, and will only display it on that level – [...]
I was looking for a way to rename a Logical Volume on a Linux system, and found the following website useful. Unfortunately my attempt to rename a LVM based Linux installation failed miserably, and it never booted. So, I’ll have to retry it sometime later again.
Often times it’s necessary to change the permissions on many files & folders recursively – i.e. change the permisssions on every file & folder. Todo so, login to your Server via SSH, and run the following commands as root. 1 2 3 find /home/username/public_html/ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; find /home/username/public_html/ -type [...]
Running a Linux file server, without it being a Domain Controller on a Windows network has it’s own set of “pit falls” One of the most annoying problems, is that of mapped network shares, and not being able to automatically logging in once Windows has rebooted. So, currently a Windows user needs to manually login [...]
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