As part of my voluntary actions, I manage and support Israeli Amateur Radio Committee Internet server. This machine is an old poor machine, custom made about 5-7 years ago, containing Pentium2 300MHz, and 256MB RAM. It serves few hundreds of users, and you can guess for yourself how slow and miserable this machine is. After…
I happen to dive. I like it. I happen to be the owner of two dive computers, namely the Suunto Mosquito and the Suunto Vyper. As I don’t have Windows running on my desktop computer, I encountered some problems trying to view my diving profile using a software and a connection between my PC and…
I’ve been using DBMail as my own personal mail server for a long while now. I’ve known the software ever since it’s 1.x release, and been using it for its great benefits – Quick and accessible large IMAP folders (and I have over 60,000 items in there). DBMail is a filtering backend for server based…
As part of my job, as an Infrastructure and Mr. Fix-it in my company, where it comes to Unix, Windows, HA-Clusters, Storages, etc, I often get to encounter some unpredictable situations. During the last two days I’ve had to setup a Compaq Proliant ML360G2 with the following configuration (to simulate customer’s environment): RHEL AS 3…
I’ve been working, on and off, on an update to my Linux kernel, for the last few weeks. I’ve tried my best with 2.6.12.1 to 2.6.12.5, and although it was compiled correctly, it failed to boot. I don’t know why, but this same problem occurred on my desktop PC as well. Yesterday, finally, I was…
It’s been hard times. I’ve been busy above my head with all kinds of end-clients, customer demands, jobs around the clock (it came up to long periods of time I’ve spent in my lab, where it’s hot and humid). It’s hot, way above the tolerable. What were my great fits? Nothing much. The highlight is…
