Posts Tagged ‘Ubuntu

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 [...]

To search for files based on their contents, you can use the grep program. For example, to find out which C source files in the current directory contain the string ‘thing’, you can do: grep -l thing *.[ch] If you also want to search for the string in files in subdirectories, you can combine grep [...]

Recently I am working on a vm that comes with IE6. As everybody knows the capabilities of IE6, which is very limited. So I decided to download the portable firefox to save myself some trouble. After I visit some page with flash content, it just can’t be display. The trick is you need to download [...]


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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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