Beating the crap out of your ISP’s DNS filtering & redirection
So recently, my home ISP decided to jump the shark and join the line of Indonesian ISP enforcing the use of their DNS server to their customer, by way of…
Identifying LUN ID on Redhat Enterprise Linux
Applies to: RHEL v5 or newer Any other linux distro, I guess? You can get the LUN ID info for certain LUN, by either performing several commands. If you have…
Installing Oracle Java JDK/JRE on RedHat Linux
Applies to: RHEL v5 or newer To the rest of us, the included OpenJDK shipped on our RHEL installer is more than enough. But for some peculiar reason, application vendors…
IIS 7.x and Oracle Client 11.x : System.Exception: System.Data.OracleClient requires Oracle client software version 8.1.7 or greater
Applies to: IIS v7 on Windows 2008/R2 Oracle client v11.x 64-bit Symptom: an exception “System.Exception: System.Data.OracleClient requires Oracle client software version 8.1.7 or greater” may occur when Combination of IIS…
Adding a Windows Azure Cloud Service to virtual network
Ah, Windows Azure. Can’t put more that one NIC on a VM. A VNETs can’t talk to each other. No web-based virtual display or console for your VM, so a…
Setup sendmail to forward to external smtp server
If you want your local installation of sendmail to forward all emails to certain, external smtp server, all you have to do is to enable and setup the smarthost feature…
GnomeShell 3.10 extensions not loaded on startup
I’ve been using GnomeShell since Canonical shoved Unity to my face back in 2011. I recently put GnomeShell 3.10 on my Ubuntu 13.10 install, and I quite like it. Some…
A bit more on sudo: Assigning selective privileges to executables
So I have a user in my box, dedicated only to run database dump from our oracle database. All they have to do, is to execute a specific command, with…
Replacing WIFI+BT combo adapter on Lenovo Ideapad Y510p
Sooo… screw it. Even after everything that I did, the support for BCM43142 bluetooth on Ubuntu just isn’t there yet. Sometime it’s working, most of the time it isn’t. When…
Ubuntu 13.10 and Bluetooth on Broadcom BCM43142 WIFI+BT combo adapter
So, wireless and bluetooth on my spankin new Y510p are provided by a single Mini PCI-e Broadcom BCM43142 adapter. The wifi part worked out of the box, most of the…