So, I’ve been thinking of a car. Since I don’t have much experience, as a start I am thinking a low cost local car. I end up having to make choice between Proton Persona and Proton Saga(BLM).

So far I like Persona, but it’s slightly more expensive then Saga. Anyways, I still have time to make my mind up(and to get ready some cash) before I can really afford.

Searching in the internet for Proton Persona clubs, I came across this one - http://www.personaclub.net

This club is quite active, although if you aren’t local you might be a little bit lost coz some threads are in Malay language, or Minglish If you happened to be a Persona owner, you will be most welcome to join this club.

1. wget http://download3.vmware.com/software/vmserver/VMware-server-1.0.6-91891.tar.gz
2. apt-get install build-essential linux-kernel-devel linux-headers-generic xinetd
3. tar -xzvf VMware-server-1.0.6-91891.tar.gz
4. cd vmware-server-distrib && ./vmware-install.pl
5. ln -sf /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.2.3/libgcc_s.so /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1 && ln -sf /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0

That’s it.

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. I will read through the book carefully and try to implement examples and how-tos in this book and write a full featured detailed review.

Until then stay tuned!

So here’s a note to myself on how to make raid in dell servers:

1. While booting the server, enter PERC/CERC BIOS Configuration Utility by pressing Control + M key.
2. From the Management menu select Configure option.
3. Select Clear Configuration from the Configure menu, Select Yes when prompted. At this point we have deleted all existing arrays and/or logical drives. Pressing Escape button go to Management menu.
4. Go to Clear option in Management menu. Select drives by pressing spacebar and when you see READY status flashing you press F10 button. Select Yes and you will be reformatting those drives. This will take some time depending on your drive capacity. With my drives (2×73GB) it took around 1hour ++. When it’s done press escape and reboot your server
5. Repeat Step 1.
6. Select Easy Configuration from Configure menu. Make sure all drives are in GREEN and READY state.
7. Using arrow keys select the drives one by one and press spacebar. This will change drives status from READY to ONLINE A00-00. Repeat this step for as much hard drives you have.
8. If you want to make a hot spare, select a hard drive you wanna make hot spare and press F4.
9. Select all ONLINE status drives and press F10. This will bring you Select Configurable Array(s) dialog. Now pressing spacebar you get A-00 window, here you should get Span-1. Press F10 key to verify your logical drive settings. Here you will get options of RAID-0 and RAID-1. When you made your mind and set your RAID configs go to Accept option and press enter. When prompted select YES.
10. Now it’s time to make our logical drive bootable. In Configure menu go to Specify Boot Drive and select Specify a Logical Drive as BootDrive. The number in Logical BootDrive set to 0. (This will change according to your drive configs). And press enter.
11. Pressing Escape button you quit from the menus and go to Exit dialog. Reboot your server and you are set to install your preferred OS now!

This note is for RAID-1 with 2×73GB SCSI hard drives. For your case it might be slightly different but the overall process should be something like this.

Enjoy!

UPDATE: Here’s a snapshot of the PERC/CERC BIOS Configuration Utility

1. OpenDNS - http://www.opendns.org - pretty much solid dns servers, highly recommended by many people.

2. ScrubIt - http://scrubit.com - Haven’t used myself, found in the net.

3. gtei.net - nosite - One of the advantages of these servers –> IP numbers easy to remember!
a) 4.2.2.1
b) 4.2.2.2
c) 4.2.2.3
d) 4.2.2.4
e) 4.2.2.5
f) 4.2.2.6

Cool, ah?

Others you can get at http://www.dnsserverlist.org/

Then configure your Microsoft VPN Connections in Network Manager. It’s the one on top right corner.

If you are dealing with CentOS 5 x86_64 (Free version of RHEL5), try to install libssh2 for your PHP development you might fail in doing so.

So here’s a quick tip how to install libssh2 on X86_64 systems(I think i386 works just fine)

Edit: /usr/share/pear/pearcmd.php

Set: @ini_set(’memory_limit’, ‘16M’);

And try again!

$ sudo mysqld –skip-grant-tables &

$ mysql -u root mysql

$ mysql> UPDATE user SET Password=PASSWORD(’MyNewPasswordHere’) WHERE User=’root’;

$ mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

$ mysql> \q

$ sudo /etc/init.d/mysql restart

Now you can login using your new root password.

I am excited to see yet another good deal on Open Source projects, the fact that free software can do a good business.

Hopefully, they, Sun, will remain true to the Open Source spirit.

Before we proceed any further let’s take a look into different WP layouts.

This one will be most common layout used among bloggers. It’s very basic layout, designing and customizing this kind of theme is much easier than the most.

This is what we call two column WP layout. Because you have two columns - Main and Sidebar.
It has a header, where we usually put our logo, blog name and tag lines. Also it’s a common practice to put navigation bar there as well.

Then a sidebar, its where we have blog categories, blogroll, may be some ads and things like that.

The main part is where we have our blog posts shown, it will contain posts with details like date published, author and if there are comments to the posts.

Lastly we have footer, usually people want to put some Copyright/Copyleft, site credits.

Also we have another popular layout with three columns. This one can be in two variations, it differs from each other on the sidebars positions.

In the first layout, we can see that sidebars are kept at both sides, so that the main part(the part where you have your blog posts) is kept in the center.

And the second layout is where we like to have our sidebars on the right or the left side of the blog.

So these are more or less standard WP theme layouts you will see in the blogosphere. These types of layouts are common ones but of course there are other types.

So, I have covered basic WP layout types. My next blog post will be about WP theme files and their functions.

Please make sure you have the following:

1. Working WordPress blog installed. It can be on your workstation(local webserver) or hosted in the internet.
2. Basic HTML and CSS knowledge.
3. Your favorite text editor. You can use Macromedia Dreamweaver or any kind of IDE tool at that point. As long as you are comfortable and can manipulate text.
4. Graphical FTP client or knowledge of command line FTP.
5. Covered my previous posts

If you have any other tips or suggestions please drop your comments, I really appreciate your feedback!

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