Linux and Unix OS Archive

  • How to Find a file by name in UNIX/Solaris/Linux?

    How to Find a file by name in UNIX/Solaris/Linux?

    Posted on July 10, 2009 | No Comments
    Tweet To find a file in UNIX, Solaris, or Linux,  you can use the ‘Find‘ command. Exampel: find / -name apache.* -print This will search the whole system for any filename with apache and print the output to the screen. Other arguments for the Find...

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  • Blackberry Sync Showing the Same Confirm Calendar Edit Items

    Blackberry Sync Showing the Same Confirm Calendar Edit Items

    Posted on June 16, 2009 | No Comments
    Tweet Okay, today I ran into this problem with a client’s Blackberry device.  Whenever he sync his Blackberry to Desktop Manager he will see the same confirm calendar edit items.  I spent two hours trying to figure out why this is happening and it turns...

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  • Solaris : How to reset root password

    Solaris : How to reset root password

    Posted on March 16, 2009 | No Comments
    Tweet How to reset the root password in Solaris? 1. Restart the machine and when you are at the GRUB menu press the ‘e’ button to edit it. 2. Highlight the line with the ‘kernel’ word and press the ‘e’ button to edit it. 3....

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  • Linux Root Password

    Linux Root Password

    Posted on March 11, 2009 | No Comments
    Tweet hmmm… must be the age… or not.  It is that I don’t use Linux much, so every time when I need to do some Linux work I have to google it. Anyway, if any one interested here is how you change the root password...

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  • XenServer on T61

    XenServer on T61

    Posted on March 9, 2009 | No Comments
    Tweet I just tested and installed Citrix XenServer on a Lenovo T61 laptop.  I have to say the installation was easy and without issues in comparing to VMware ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V.  XenServer is similar to VMware in usability and manageability.  Also, it is so much better...

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  • Installing ESXi on IBM Lenovo T61 Laptop

    Installing ESXi on IBM Lenovo T61 Laptop

    Posted on March 1, 2009 | 7 Comments
    Tweet Finally, I got ESXi to work on my IBM Lenovo T61 laptop.  VMware doesn’t make it easy for unsupported hardware, but I found the file and site with the instruction on how to do it.  Check out VM-HELP. 1. You will need to download...

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  • Unable to find a supported device to write the VMware ESX Server 3i 3.5.0 image to

    Unable to find a supported device to write the VMware ESX Server 3i 3.5.0 image to

    Posted on February 28, 2009 | No Comments
    Tweet If you get this error when trying to install ESXi, “Unable to find a supported device to write the VMware ESX Server 3i 3.5.0 image to” Make sure your devices are supported by VMware. VMware HCL Also, visit the VM-HELP site for more help...

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  • How to create your own bootable ESXi usb stick?

    How to create your own bootable ESXi usb stick?

    Posted on February 28, 2009 | No Comments
    Tweet How to create your own bootable ESXi usb stick? 1.  You will need to download two programs : “7-zip” and “winimage” * 7-zip is free * winimage is a shareware with 30 days evaluation period 2. Make sure you have an USB stick with...

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  • Best Wiki

    Best Wiki

    Posted on January 19, 2009 | No Comments
    Tweet Best Wiki 1. MediaWiki – The software behind Wikipedia! 2. TikiWiki 3. DokuWiki All of these are written in PHP Choose  a hosting company to host your site and wiki appliction below Tweet

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  • Best Free Monitoring Software

    Best Free Monitoring Software

    Posted on January 11, 2009 | No Comments
    Tweet MRTG – Multi Router Traffic Grapher If you want to monitor the traffic on your network, then you got to try out MRTG. It is a free network monitoring software. It will monitor SNMP devices and will draw a graph of the traffic passing...

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