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On some of our older servers we have an issue where the official memtest CD does not boot while using IPMI (virtual CD drive). Upon looking for a work around we found 2 options to allow memtest to run even if it did not boot from the official ISO. The first option is RIPLinux 9.3 (we prefer the non-X version), just boot the CD and select the Memory Test option.
The second option is UBCD5 (in beta currently, v4 did not work over IPMI), just start the CD, select the Memory menu and select which version of Memtest you wish to use.
UBCD5 comes with the latest version (4) of memtest, while RIPLinux comes with v2.
On a number of occasions I’ve attempted to search Google from different locations to either check SEO rankings in different countries, or to simply find vendors in specific customers. Visiting the specific site (such as www.google.com for US, or www.google.co.uk for the UK) still does not appear to give you results from that country. So I did a bit of research and found you can set the location by modifying the URL. While this may not be the prettiest way to search, it does the job!
1. Go to www.google.com
2. Type in the term you wish to search.
3. Once the page loads, you will get a URL something along the lines of: http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=crucial+paradigm
4. Add &gl=uk to the the end of the URL, where uk is the 2 letter country code of where you wish geo-target your results from. (gl stands for Geographic Location).
5. Example: http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=crucial+paradigm&gl=uk – will bring up results targeted for the UK.
Login as root and run the following command:
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.350-1.noarch.rpm
Once finished run:
rpm -U webmin-1.350-1.noarch.rpm
The rest of the install will be done automatically to the directory /usr/libexec/webmin, the administration username set to root and the password to your current root password. You should now be able to login to Webmin at the URL http://localhost:10000/ .
Webmin install complete. You can now login to https://hostname.domain:10000/
as root with your root password.
NOTE: the default login and password is your root and root password. this is the same login you used with you ssh to your server or whatever your root password is, so your login will be like this:
Username: root
Password: xxxx (what ever your root password is)
You can list installed packages with yum by running the following command:
yum list installed
SYDNEY, Australia (December 8, 2009) —Crucial Paradigm Australia, a leading provider of Managed Web hosting and Virtual Private Servers for small to medium sized businesses, announced today it has completed an overhaul of its entire core network, adding significantly more traffic capacity and the capability to quickly scale the network to a larger size.
While trying to change the password, if you get the following error:
“ERROR: Invalid session ID detected”
As a resolution to this issue, please follow the steps mentioned as under:
1. Follow the path Admin CP> Templates> Manage Templates> Expand All
2. You will see some of your templates in Red [in this case only the 'changepassword' template is responsible for this issue]
3. Please restore the templates in red by following the below mentioned path:
Admin CP -> Templates -> Manage Templates -> click on the template you need to restore -> Restore
4. Admin CP >> Diagnostics >> Rebuild Cache
Try changing the password from Support Center >> My Account
In an effort to try and cut down the manual labour in burning in new hardware, we have been working with RIP linux on a USB key. The idea is to fully automate a read and write to all drives in the system, and then automatically run memtest. This way we can just plug the USB key into the system, start the script and it will perform and record the burn in tests to the USB key which we can review after a few days (burn in tests can take up to a few days depending on the hardware!).
To do this we needed to modify the boot menu on the RIPLinux USB key, and set memtest to start automatically after 10 seconds of no input. This can be done by doing the following:
Under:
LABEL Boot Memory Tester!
Enter:
MENU DEFAULT
Under:
DEFAULT menu.c32
Enter:
TIMEOUT 100
A script can then placed to run automatically run when RIPLinux boots into the standard kernel. The script will complete the hard drive tests, then it will reboot the server automatically and the memtest will run.
If you have ever done a mail server migration and you save a copy of your emails on the mail server, you will know what it is like to receive 1000s of duplicate emails.
Here are some utilities which will help you find and remove duplicate emails from your inbox after this has happened!
Thunderbird: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/956
Outlook: http://www.office-addins.com/-outlook-addins/duplicate-email-remover.html
We’ve started something new in the office, it helps with motivation and we believe it could be the next big thing in the corporate world! Forget 4 quadrant training courses or ideologies presented by ex CEO’s! We ask that you try our system first, the FAIL system! 
An interesting service to check your wireless security strength is http://www.wpacracker.com/index.html
The service started by the same person who revealed the possibility in of hacking SSL.
The service runs on a 400 CPU cloud, and you have the option to either purchase full power of the cluster, or half power. The service will search through a database of 135 million dictionary based passwords.