Review: Pentax SMC-A 28 F2.8
When I got my K100D, the first lens that I sought the most is the 50mm fast prime… until I realized that combining the 50mm lenses with cropped APS-C sensor…
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…
Island Hopping
I spent my last holiday on October last year on Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok. Well it’s close to a shopping spree than a vacation. Then My friend Ebbie posted an…
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…
Happy Pi Day!
Today is March 14th a.k.a 3.14!! So, before the day is over, allow me to wish you a very happy Pi Day!
Review: SMC Pentax-DA 14mm F2.8
It’s been a while since the last time I posted something related to my hobby other than installing the most cutting edge Linux distros, which is taking photos 🙂 I…
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…
PHP 5.3 & MySQL 5.1 for RHEL 4.x
For those who are still using RHEL 4.x and in need of deploying PHP 5.3 & MySQL 5.1 , you can get the required rpm packages from here. You can…