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Open-Mesh! Let the games Begin!

By admin, on September 23rd, 2010%

Being so preoccupied with other wi-fi architectures and deployments, I failed to catch up to the meshing Craze. Yes its true that for speedy wifi nets you need the directional antennas, the best and fastest SBCs or X86s, various optimizations and tens of other detains. On the other hand when you move closer to the ground, you different issues. To deliver signal to users you really need something better, more clever than a dozen of WDS devices. The truth is that mesh configs with OLSR and BATMAN really shine in Hotspot conditions and outperform older solutions. Continue reading Open-Mesh! Let the games Begin!

LVM Partition Resizing After Imaging Or VM disk Resize

By admin, on August 30th, 2010%

This is topic that I tend to revisit forget… revisit…. forget…loop.

This is getting printed before we do another log google loop.

Taken from my LVM management notes. I had first used this when I imaged an 80GB drive to a 120GB drive and wanted to make use of the 40GB of free space.

Boot from an ISO and ruin (or Fix) Your Dedicated Hosting

By admin, on June 15th, 2010%

Intro

OK so you went and splashed out on a Dedicated Hosting Pack only to find out you do not like the OS list included. You have IP KVM Access to the Machine and you feel you want to ruin it (OR Fix it). Lets assume you have debian and you want to install ESXi Here is How!
Continue reading Boot from an ISO and ruin (or Fix) Your Dedicated Hosting

Installing the OpenSKS keyserver on Debian like machines

By admin, on April 15th, 2010%

I’ve been trying to install a PGP keyserver for some time, then found sks.

It’s in the Ubuntu repositories, so actually installing it is a breeze :

# sudo apt-get install sks

However, configuring it is a little more complicated, here are the steps I took :

Open a terminal window Create the database . . . → Read More: Installing the OpenSKS keyserver on Debian like machines

Zimbra 5 & 6 on Debian 5 i386

By admin, on March 10th, 2010%

Install Debian 5

Zimbra 6

Install required packages

# aptitude install sudo libidn11 libpcre3 libexpat1 libstdc++5 sysstat

Edit the host file

# vi /etc/hosts ip.add.re.ss hostname.domain.tld hostname

Download Zimbra 6

# wget http://…/zcs-6.0…DEBIAN5…tgz

Extract the archive

# tar xzf zcs-6.0…DEBIAN5…tgz

Install Zimbra 6

# ./install Zimbra 5 apt-get install binutils build-essential gcc-4.1-base make psmisc . . . → Read More: Zimbra 5 & 6 on Debian 5 i386

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