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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....

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

[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 Linux users, Google Earth is now available for Linux. Not on WINE as but as a native application based on Qt and openGL....

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...