http://www.jusupov.com Open Source Technology, Hardware, Software Reviews, Programming, Web Development Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:59:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been long enough in Malaysia to start thinking of getting a car for my family.  Having two kids, younger daughter is 1 year plus and elder 3 year plus, makes traveling quite unpleasant experience. You have to  make sure everybody sits in the taxi, the bags, baby things and ... http://www.jusupov.com/2008/06/07/malaysia-proton-persona-club-online/ Another note to myself. wget http://download3.vmware.com/software/vmserver/VMware-server-1.0.6-91891.tar.gz apt-get install build-essential linux-kernel-devel linux-headers-generic xinetd tar -xzvf VMware-server-1.0.6-91891.tar.gz cd vmware-server-distrib && ./vmware-install.pl 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. http://www.jusupov.com/2008/06/06/how-to-install-vmware-server-on-ubuntu-804/ 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 ... http://www.jusupov.com/2008/05/29/received-a-book-from-packt-publishing/ 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 ... http://www.jusupov.com/2008/05/27/how-to-configure-hardware-raid-in-dell-servers/ 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 ... http://www.jusupov.com/2008/05/13/free-public-dns-servers-to-use/ sudo apt-get install network-manager-pptp sudo killall nm-applet sudo /etc/init.d/dbus restart nm-applet --sm-disable & Then configure your Microsoft VPN Connections in Network Manager. It's the one on top right corner. http://www.jusupov.com/2008/02/22/how-to-setup-windows-vpn-in-ubuntu/ This post is just for archiving it, if you find it useful I'm glad! 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 ... http://www.jusupov.com/2008/01/19/libssh2-on-centos-x86-64-systems/ In case you have forgotten your root password on your Ubuntu Linux, here's a small tip on how to reset it. $ 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 ... http://www.jusupov.com/2008/01/18/how-to-reset-mysql-root-password-in-ubuntu-linux/ Jonathan Schwartz reports they are to acquire MySQL. 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. http://www.jusupov.com/2008/01/17/sun-to-acquire-mysql/ In our first part on how to create WordPress(WP) theme we've covered basic installation of WP and also got to know where are the theme files located. 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 ... http://www.jusupov.com/2008/01/10/wordpress-theme-layout-structures/