Time for some more Linux testing. The reason for this is because I think I will go ahead and try to study for the RHCSA - Red Hat Certified System Administrator. Work might send me to a course in December, probably wise to play around with it before this. So here …

Hey! You need premium for RHEL6 native client to work. If you get it to work with WINE it would work for free (as a plus you get it with the very annoying ads). My machine is a RHEL 6 64-bit. The only requirement I had was that I did …

Went through the apache logs on my web-server and saw some access requests to my phpmyadmin page. It's probably a good idea to restrict access to this web based sql admin interface (in case there is an exploit I don't want somebody to use it on this). How to make …

The problematic PDF The CFP300 material on http://community.brocade.com/docs/DOC-2041 is encrypted so that it cannot be printed/re-edited without a password. If you try to open this with evince (default .pdf viewer in Gnome) it will ask for a password. pdftotext (comes with the software suite …

How often do you actually log on to your machine - hit sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade without reading what the changes are? I do it every time, unless it's a dist-upgrade we're talking about. So how do we get this going? The tool you're looking for is called cron-apt …

On the 28th I purchased it around 1900. Today on the 30th at 0820 it arrived in the airport in Helsinki. Also yesterday somebody called and said it would come this week. Update: It's now on the way to my work! Got it around 12 or so. Less than 48 …

Why does a PostgreSQL upgrade require an export, uninstall, install and then import of the database? That big changes in the database? It would be nice to know how to import from a compressed archive, anybody ever got this working? If so, please leave a comment! I've been googling my …

0/ Have your own virtual machine in your desktop is not hard! 0.1/ Some Terminology OS - Operating System Host OS - Underlying OS - in this you install VMWare Workstation. Host needs to be stared for the guest to be able to start. Guest OS - The extra OS you install inside …

Saw this note today in the MOTD - that I can upgrade with do-release-upgrade. Official instructions/details from Ubuntu and here is another quality post on unixtutorial. My Ubuntu 10.10 is running inside a VMWare Workstation Virtual Machine on my Windows 7 x64. I did it over ssh with 'sudo …

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1478734 I couldn't get it to work. Eventually I installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS in a VM in Virtualbox and in there it worked. However, resolution is only 800x600. So I found this page: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php …