August 15, 2007 at around evening time
· Filed under NMS, Uncategorized, live journal, site monitor, site_news
Finally, around lunch time today I subscribed to a free monitor service by SiteUptime.com. Early July, this blog went inaccessible for nine days due to IP address change on my Comcast connection. I was caught off guard, since I had had the same IP for years since 2000. All cache and links were purged from Google Search’s cache, while the site was unacccessible.
I vowed not to have this happen again. With the free monitor service, alerts will sent to me from SiteUptime.com via email should this blog become inaccesible again. If you are serious about your web sites and their readership (your customers, clients, prospects, investors, etc.), you need to maintain uptime and SLA with decent monitoring against services and applications. Monitor Your Web Site 24/7 is a must! Read the rest of this entry »
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August 12, 2007 at around evening time
· Filed under site search, site_news, wordpress
I did a in-place upgrade to wordpress 2.2.2 for this blog ten minutes ago. It was a breeze as usual. I felt good that I finally could find time to catch up with security patches from Wordpress.org.
This site uses almost-springs-adsense-02 theme, with my own tweaks. One of the tweak, google search at the top of the side bar suddenly overgrew and shadowed the body of the blog. Here is a ugly screenshot. Read the rest of this entry »
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August 12, 2007 in the wee hours
· Filed under broadband router, live journal, netgear, networking, site_news, technology, trendnet
I bought a trendnet wireless router recently from CompUSA. Besides it is only four five dollars after mail-in rebates, I have some desperate needs to replace my existing Netgear MR814v2 wireless router.
- It seems that Netgear has no intention whatsoever to add support of WPA on MR814v2. Desperate people on the Net attempted to apply MR814v3 firmware to it in order to gain WPA functionality and had failed miserably. I don’t have the time or skill to add WPA support based on the open-source firmware provided by Netgear. Nobody else does either
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August 4, 2007 late at night
· Filed under PPC64, RHEL5, linux
As root, I used ’strace64′ to trace system calls of ‘db2icrt’ on a new DB2 UDB v8.2 server running RHEL5 (PPC64) on IBM eServer OpenPower 720 hardware. W/o tracking by strace64, the same command failed right away when a database administrator ran ’sudo db2icrt blahInstanceOptionsHere’. Read the rest of this entry »
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