Category: Computers

Howto and other interesting information on computers systems and programming.

Redhat RAID5 setup

This article shows how to create a 3 SATA DISK RAID5 confgiuration using Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.5 aka Redhat 5.5. I used a small 40GB drive the boot drive. This could have been anything including another Mirror but I didn’t go that nuts with my failover. I just wanted to make sure that if one …

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Lotus Notes 8.5 Install on Ubuntu 10.04 32bit

Download C1WR1EN.tar from IBM untar intoibm_lotus_activities-8.5.i586.deb ibm_lotus_cae-8.5.i586.deb ibm_lotus_notes-8.5.i586.deb ibm_lotus_sametime-8.5.i586.deb ibm_lotus_symphony-8.5.i586.deb install ibm_lotus_notes-8.5.i586.deb After installing you will need an additional package to be installed: sudo apt-get install libgnomeprintui2.2-0 Start “notes” from /opt/bim/lotus/notes and point the setup screens to your current user.id enter your password and you should be ready to go.

Want a free VOIP home phone system? Build it yourself with “PBX in a flash”

I took a good look at my monthly bills and found that I needed to curtail them. One useless bill was my phone bill. Almost 600 bucks a year. So I decided to turn to, yes the internet, to find a low cost solution that would do the same things and more than my current …

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Testing Windows Live Writer

Download windows live and check out the Windows Live Writer. It lets you point to your WordPress and other blog software and uses a client server approach which seems much faster than creating blog entries using html forms etc.

Create Windows7 install from usb

Requirements: *USB Flash Drive (Minimum 4GB) *Windows 7 or Vista installation files. Follow the below steps to create bootable Windows 7/Vista USB drive using which you can install Windows 7/Vista easily. 1. Plug-in your USB flash drive to USB port and move all the contents from USB drive to a safe location on your system. …

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