Archive for April, 2008
support.microsoft.com not working behind Squid
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 [...]
How to restart snmpd service on AIX
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]:/# [...]
Google Earth for Linux
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG7cM5Yvhz4[/youtube]
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 [...]
Oracle’s Acquisitions over the years
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 [...]
How to upgrade MySQL 4 to MySQL 5 on CentOS 4
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,
># [...]
