Archive for May 2008

Received a book from Packt Publishing

Sometime ago Rebecca from Packt Publishing sent me an email asking if I would review their recently launched  book on Scalix titled ‘Scalix: Linux Administrator’s Guide’.
Yesterday I found the postal package on my table, it was from them.
I did go through the book roughly, I find it quite useful as a reference in your bookshelf. [...]

How to configure hardware RAID in Dell Servers

One of the Dell Servers, Dell PowerEdge 2850, in our Cyber Jaya DC had hard disk issues, so I had to replace it. For some reason, I had a little bit of trouble setting up and configuring hardware RAID. Mostly because the terms used in the configuration menus and the menu itself is kinda confusing
So [...]

Free public DNS servers to use

If you happened to be using TMNet(Malaysia’s leading(?!) ISP) DNS servers you probably know how much do they suck. Well here’s a small tip from me for those in need: a small list of publicly available DNS servers to make a switch.
1. OpenDNS – http://www.opendns.org – pretty much solid dns servers, highly recommended by many [...]