Alan's Real Life Notebook 2009-11-11T23:08:40-0800 <p>My occasional writings about daily events, FOSS, politics and all real life related things...</p> LifeType Copyright (c) alan tag:blog.technotux.org,2009-11-11:19 CMA Awards 2009 2009-11-11T23:08:40-0800 2009-11-11T23:08:40-0800 2009-11-11T23:08:40-0800 In overall, it was fantastic. Hosted by Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood - following a joking type performance method, they were making jokes out of that Kanye West incident you know whenever ... alan http://blog.technotux.org/blog/1 Real Life <p> In overall, it was fantastic. Hosted by Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood - following a joking type performance method, they were making jokes out of that Kanye West incident you know whenever they could! Their performance about warning parents from raising kids like Kanye West was hilarious. &quot;<em>Cowboys have manners</em>, <em>they don't interrupt&quot;.</em> You can watch that Kanye West funny part here. I was wishing Billy Currington to win something but it didn't happen. </p> <p> <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="450" height="350" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/snPyyULfw5c" id="ltVideoYouTube"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/snPyyULfw5c" /> <param name="wmode" value="transparent" /> <param name="allowScriptAcess" value="sameDomain" /> <param name="quality" value="best" /> <param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /> <param name="FlashVars" value="playerMode=embedded" /> </object> </p> tag:blog.technotux.org,2009-09-29:18 RAID on NSLU2 2009-09-29T21:15:04-0700 2009-09-29T21:15:04-0700 2009-09-29T21:15:04-0700 Already wrote about it, I fell in love with my NSLU2 device. Its really cool that you can run almost everything that completes your home network on a small 133Mhz, 32MB RAM machine. Imagine ... alan http://blog.technotux.org/blog/1 FOSS <a id="res_28" href="http://blog.technotux.org/gallery/1/p8050004.jpg"><img src="http://blog.technotux.org/gallery/1/previews/p8050004.jpg" border="0" alt="Raid on NLSU2!" align="right" /></a>Already <a href="http://blog.technotux.org/post/1/12">wrote</a> about it, I fell in love with my <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2">NSLU2</a> device. Its really cool that you can run almost everything that completes your home network on a small 133Mhz, 32MB RAM machine. Imagine how cool is it to <a href="http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/OverClockTheSlug">de-underclock</a> your NSLU2 to make it work on 266MHz speed and install a second hard drive to run it over <a href="http://www.howtoforge.com/software-raid1-grub-boot-debian-etch">RAID1</a>! This small little guy is now running as my file, print, DNS, APT repository and local Web server! Here I post a newly raided NSLU2. Its fantastic. tag:blog.technotux.org,2009-07-05:16 Avoid IBM x3650! 2009-07-05T20:05:30-0700 2009-07-05T20:05:30-0700 2009-07-05T20:05:30-0700 It was about six months ago that we got two IBM x3650 servers. Since the very first week after installing operating system and making them operational, we were having several raid controller ... alan http://blog.technotux.org/blog/1 General It was about six months ago that we got two <a href="http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/x/hardware/rack/x3650/index.html" target="_blank">IBM x3650</a> servers. Since the very first week after installing operating system and making them operational, we were having several raid controller instability crash problems. First I tried to upgrade aacraid kernel module to some newer versions hoping it would solve the problem; but it didn't help. Then doing more research led me to updating controller, hard drive and main board firmwares. Thank God, that helped to make the whole thing running more stable. But this was not the end of our trouble road. Last week we lost raid 5 configuration on one of the servers running six virtualized servers over XenServer. Long story short, it took a week to be able to recover data from the raid array and setting up a new server to restore it all. Guys! seriously avoid x3650 machines. tag:blog.technotux.org,2009-06-14:15 Elections? Kidding Me? 2009-06-14T10:25:46-0700 2009-06-14T10:25:46-0700 2009-06-14T10:25:46-0700 Think about it; what happend in 2009 Iranian presidential elections was a really really nice designed political scenario. Dude, they got 85% turnout, that ofcourse is really really vital for ... alan http://blog.technotux.org/blog/1 Politics <a id="res_27" href="http://blog.technotux.org/gallery/1/Iranian_presidential_election_2009_protests.jpg"><img src="http://blog.technotux.org/gallery/1/previews/Iranian_presidential_election_2009_protests.jpg" border="0" alt="Iranian Presidential election protests" align="left" /></a>Think about it; what happend in 2009 Iranian presidential elections was a really really nice designed political scenario. Dude, they got 85% turnout, that ofcourse is really really vital for their dictatorship regime while turning it down to the wanted result of Ahmadinejad's glorious victory. I'm sorry, but you're an idiot if expected something else. Yes, your vote counts but to buy global legitimation for them and nothing else.&nbsp; Anyway you better know than me that what really Iranian regime is. If you voted, I'm sure you have the right filling of being hardly screwed. tag:blog.technotux.org,2009-03-29:14 Shutting Detroit Down! 2009-03-29T12:35:06-0700 2009-03-29T12:35:06-0700 2009-03-29T12:35:06-0700 Actually I became a country music fan since found the great Go Country 105 radio station. (FM 105.1, Southern California). Here I present my favorite song these days. It really nice and I'm ... alan http://blog.technotux.org/blog/1 General <p> Actually I became a country music fan since found the great <a href="http://www.gocountry105.com/">Go Country 105</a> radio station. (FM 105.1, Southern California). Here I present my favorite song these days. It really nice and I'm sure you would like it. I believe that John Rich is a really talented guy. An hour for a complete song, its amazing! </p> <div style="text-align: center"> <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="380" height="321" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/GoIXxFSq7og" id="ltVideoYouTube"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GoIXxFSq7og" /> <param name="wmode" value="transparent" /> <param name="allowScriptAcess" value="sameDomain" /> <param name="quality" value="best" /> <param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /> <param name="FlashVars" value="playerMode=embedded" /> </object> </div> tag:blog.technotux.org,2008-11-24:12 Debian Rocks! 2008-11-24T18:10:45-0800 2008-11-24T18:10:45-0800 2008-11-24T18:10:45-0800 Got my NSLU2 on Friday as expected. Its a small ARM architecture based NAS server from Linksys. Wiped out its firmware and installed Debian Lenny on it. Now I have a small file/backup server ... alan http://blog.technotux.org/blog/1 FOSS Got my <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2" target="_blank">NSLU2</a> on Friday as <a id="res_26" href="http://blog.technotux.org/gallery/1/nslu2.jpg"><img src="http://blog.technotux.org/gallery/1/previews/nslu2.jpg" border="0" alt="NSLU2 Running Debian" align="right" /></a>expected. Its a small ARM architecture based NAS server from Linksys. Wiped out its firmware and installed Debian Lenny on it. Now I have a small file/backup server at home to store files over NFS or to automatically download backups from server. Using lighttpd It also acts as my local Parsix apt repository mirror. It really worths that 50 bucks I paid for ;-) See how small is it comparing to my AT&amp;T wireless router!