Archive for the ‘Ubuntu or Linux’ Category

Today I got my hands on the newly release Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and I decided to try to install it on my VMWare to check it out. The installation is a breeze. Then I reach the gdm login page and I try to type in my password to login. However no matter what I press [...]

Step 1: Install wine Install wine via “system –> Administration –> Synaptic Package Manager” or follow the instrucions on WineHQ. Step 2: Install Webshots Go to webshots.com and download your webshots to the desktop. Open it with wine and go through the next-next windows. Install it in “C:\Program Files\Webshots\” Step 3: Make script Go to [...]

I have just installed Ubuntu Linux. But, what is the default root password? I can only login as a normal user. How do I login as root user? This is the mystery for most users – you didn’t set a root password, so what is it? The root user (also known as superuser), is a [...]

This tutorial shows how to set up a high-availability storage with two storage servers (Ubuntu 9.10) that use GlusterFS. Each storage server will be a mirror of the other storage server, and files will be replicated automatically across both storage servers. The client system (Ubuntu 9.10 as well) will be able to access the storage [...]

This tutorial describes how to set up database replication in MySQL. MySQL replication allows you to have an exact copy of a database from a master server on another server (slave), and all updates to the database on the master server are immediately replicated to the database on the slave server so that both databases [...]

Recently one of the server that run our web application just went offline and we have to reboot the machine. Unfortunately the system admin is unreachable and it is urgent, so I need to start up the Java application that run on IBM WebSphere myself. In order to start IBM WebSphere, you can use the [...]

Recently I come across an error in the apache config file error where backslash is forget to be input in the trailing end. So I need to modify the config file and restart the apache. However this server uses the IBM HTTP Server instead of the stock apache that come with linux. So the first [...]


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This is a place I create just for fun and to write down some experience and notes for myself. So feel free to enjoy and drop any comments you have. I had been employed as Programmer, System Analysts, System Administrator, DBA and Project Manager. I will share some of my case study here as well. Enjoy!

 

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