Create a custom database for fortune
I’m pretty sure that most linux users are familiar with fortune. I use it for a lot of stuff, such as adding random footer for my email, or providing feed…
Making a plurk bot
Ever want to have a bot post periodically o your plurk timeline? Well it’s easy with with the plurk-api, a simple php script, and a cronjob This post is based…
Canon Pixma MP140 / MP145 on Ubuntu 10.04
Since I rarely print at home, My Canon Pixma MP145 has been sitting in a corner of my room collecting dust. The Pixma MP145 is a multifunction inkjet printer, with…
Ubuntu 10.4 Lucid Lynx On Vaio VPCEA36FG
Due to a sudden death of my beloved M300, I’m back in the market for a new laptop. And despite the bad news I have been hearing right and left,…
IBM Tape drive serial number in Redhat, AIX, and HP-UX
One thing that you need to set up LanFree on TSM (or any kind of SAN Fiber channel backup) is the serial number of the tape drive registered on your…
bash on AIX
I miss bash when I’m working on those aix boxes. On default setting ksh won’t give you your command history on the press of arrow keys. Yes you can set…
Cisco IPSec VPN support on Ubuntu
This is old news, but here it goes. Need to connect your Lucid box to your office Cisco VPN gateway? Easy. All you have to do is just to add…
0653-447 Requested a write of 4096 bytes, but wrote only 3584
I hit a roadblock when trying to copy a 50G file from an NFS mount to a local disk on an AIX 5.3 server. The error is as follows: 0653-447…
ANR0454E Session rejected by server , reason: Authentication Failure
So somehow, the storage agent in one of the node of my HP-UX RAC clusters won’t start. Manually starting the storage agent reveal this error message : “ANR0454E Session rejected…
Using Nokia E51 on Ubuntu Karmic Koala as gsm modem with USB or bluetooth
I’ve noticed that some of the visit to website is due to google queries regarding how to use a Nokia E51 as a modem on an ubuntu box. While my…