Can you access support.microsoft.com? Chances are you can’t if you’re behind a squid proxy.

Here’s the fix/workaround,

Add the lines below into your squid.conf file. should be in /etc/squid/squid.conf. Restart squid and you should be good to go.

#> vi /etc/squid/squid.conf

add lines into /etc/squid.conf
# Fix support.microsoft.com by removing Accept-Encoding header
acl support.microsoft.com dstdomain support.microsoft.com
header_access Accept-Encoding deny support.microsoft.com

#> service squid restart

The other way is to remove the tick from “Use HTTP1.1 through proxy connections” in IE’s Advanced internet options tab. Beware that this might break other sites.

Source: Whirlpool.net.au

Update:

Newer versions of squid need a different approach as demonstrated by Dave over at davehope.co.uk

This is how you would restart the snmpd service on AIX.

oslevel is used to return the current OS level. stopsrc -s [service] to stop and startsrc -s [service] to start a service.

[root@kakuna]:/# oslevel
4.3.3.0
[root@kakuna]:/# stopsrc -s snmpd
0513-044 The snmpd Subsystem was requested to stop.
[root@kakuna]:/# stopsrc -s snmpd
0513-004 The Subsystem or Group, snmpd, is currently inoperative.
[root@kakuna]:/# startsrc -s snmpd
0513-059 The snmpd Subsystem has been started. Subsystem PID is 8004.
[root@kakuna]:/#

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A spanking new release of Google Earth is out. The latest 4.3 release comes with Photo Realistic 3D modeling for buildings, “Swoop navigation” for an improved navigation experience, “Light and shadow” to catch sunrise and sunset from anywhere and finally the popular “Street View” which was previously a Google Maps only feature.

Now something to excite Linux users, Google Earth is now available for Linux. Not on WINE as but as a native application based on Qt and openGL. I’m yet to try it but for those who have I have heard nothing but good reviews with some minor glitches.

However Google Earth for Linux currently only supports the i386 architecture and seems to only work with 32bit processors.

The embedded video speaks for itself.

Download the latest Google Earth

Oracle, big boy of the Database world. There’s no enterprise in the world today that does not know or use Oracle products in some way.

Their strategy over years has been to acquire their competitors to retain market share. Siebel (CRM), Innobase (InnoDB), PeopleSoft just to name a few.

Oracle has a full page dedicated to it’s acquisitions. It’s a good read  Go there now.

I was playing a round with new software today which needed MySQL 5. My server’s running CentOS 4.6 which ships by default with MySQL 4.

The to upgrade to MySQL 5 from MySQL 4 is easy. There are 2 options you could use.

The first option would require you to remove all MySQL 4 packages by running,

># yum remove mysql

The seconf option is way simpler.

># yum --enablerepo=centosplus update mysql

This will download MySQL 5 from the plus repository and replace the installed MySQL 4.

Remeber to backup your DBs before updating.