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If you have ever been round the operating system neighborhood and knocked on every platform door then you know that like most things in life with cars being a good comparison , you can’t get everything out of an operating system. This is unreasonable for a particular number of reasons and I hate it.
For the first time I’m impressed with Windows Vista. I wanted to get load balancing running on a Vista machine and I thought it would require a relevant amount of programming amongst other things. None of that! Though it’s not a visible setting in a dialog box , you can still activate it.
After a Saturday filled with everybody else’s issues other than my own (studying and relaxing , being with people and away from machines) , I suddenly feel stupid. Not because I feel mentally challenged in any way or have a doubt that the intelligence given to me by God has anything to do with my blog post or how I can troubleshoot a problem.
I feel stupid because sometimes , just sometimes I get the feeling that my stomach is spinning into circles when troubleshooting larger scale stuff. Very wrong , but you know what? This is Saturday and people on Saturdays try to relax - or something…
Oh yeah.. the reason I feel stupid (the barebone one) is that I was troubleshooting something today , doesn’t matter what it is , and I saw that indeed I was moving in the right direction to solving the problem. Though the visible end result as to my troubleshooting was not solving the problem itself, what actually feels nasty is to not be able to convert time into a solution in a balanced equation. The only thing that makes me happy though is that I was moving in the right direction despite external suggestive factors.
I recently found this story on a friend’s blog (in a comment) and I decided to share this with you. It shows you sometimes that real problems do exist within silly things and the only thing stopping us from identifying and resolving problems (especially ones that seem silly to us) is the fact that we do not apply the classic troubleshooting approach to it. Enjoy!
*.deb packages are well known from Debian and the later on Ubuntu. They are packages which contain software and automated instructions on the installation of that software on your computer. The extension deb comes from the Debian’s maker’s wife which you can guess her name is Debora.
Today after a long time I decided to take it apart and see what it looks like since I am working on a pet project that requires me to know deb packaging inside out. This is what it looks like and how it works…
Before I spit my words of justice it would be fair to mention a very interesting belief of mine. When CyTA originally came out with a 640Kbps DSL service , take my word for it when I say that was NOT a revolution. I stayed with POTS for quite a while before moving on to broadband. These are my words that conclude a prediction perhaps not only for Cyprus but surely for countries far beyond.
I got around to setting up a backup project. The original plan was a Microsoft Windows 2003 deployment with HP Openview Storageworks and complicated (needlessly) deployment design. It also consisted of an HP MSL2024 tape library (I hate tapes) , an HP DL380 G5 server and an annoying ATTO SCSI card (dual channel , u320 , low profile). Usually I feel kind of “iffy” when I’m facing hassle overhead as I call it. So we decided to change a few things.
After considerable thought I decided to let you know on some tools I use for troubleshooting , auditing and analyzing networks. I truly cannot work without these tools. This is a Linux only set of applications. For any windows ports you will have to do your own digging. I have used most of these over the years. Some are new and have been faintly tested but never the less I feel they are functional and should be here. Enjoy!
Continue reading ‘A bunch of network admin’s applications (Linux)’
Ubuntu always had a super challenging task of proving worthy to desktop users. This task is Ubuntu’s burden twice as heavy as any other operating systems simply because there weren’t enough believers in the world to back it up. Now that Ubuntu has been proven to be the nicest of things Linux has given us , supersede it’s expectations and continues to grow strong ; here are some applications which you might have not noticed before but are essential to improve your desktop experience and make Ubuntu on your puter just a little better , enhancing the Ubuntu experience and making your life easier.
Other than the fact that I finally found time to update my blog , I also found the time to install Ubuntu 8.04 hardy heron on my Toshiba. I honestly didn’t like the brown stuff again so I gave it a facelift. This is what it looks like and I’m also including a list of things I changed to make it look nicer.
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