Slicehost VPS hosting

December. 24. 2009 by lawnz –  Category: Computers, Internet (No Comments)

I have web sites on shared servers at many web hosting companies,
most those web sites are not mission critical sites, hosting companies charge
about $10 per month, just recently I need to have a dedicated server for
hosting a web site that requires an ip and dedicated port number,
I found slicehost.com for VPS (Virtual Private Server) for $20 per month,
the VPS even […]

Solaris network installation without DHCP

October. 14. 2009 by lawnz –  Category: Computers (No Comments)

one reason I got this network installation working without DHCP is cdrom drive on T2000 is bad,
Sparc system does not do cdrom boot from external usb,
only way to install OS on it is replace cdrom drive or network installation,
network installation is more interesting than replacing cdrom drive,
here is procedures,
prepare Sparc install server
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svcadm enable svc:/network/nfs/server
mkdir -p /export/home/dvdsparc
cd /cdrom/cdrom0/Solaris_10/Tools
./setup_install_server /export/home/dvdsparc
share -F nfs […]

Solaris sucks now

May. 22. 2009 by lawnz –  Category: Complaints, Computers (1 Comment)

I used old Sun OS in the past, now I use Solaris at works for test software developement and network driver testing, I saw my colleague using Ubuntu desktop version on his workstation, he is a Solaris driver developer.
I tried Solaris 10 Ldom, compared with VMware, Ldom is a nightmare, it is much harder to configure than VMware, and the network in Ldom is much slower than […]

Remove browser redirect virus

May. 22. 2009 by lawnz –  Category: Computers, Internet (1 Comment)

My Windows XP computer was infected with browser redirect virus recently, the symptom is any links on Google search result page are redirected to random sites, I tried anti-virus software Microsoft malicious software removal tool and Symantec anti-virus software, they did not work, Symantec software has nice gui, uses tons of system  resources, I went to cnet.com, users rated it one and half […]

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May. 9. 2009 by admin –  Category: Computers (No Comments)

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