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Useful OS X Applications for System Administrators | Life of an IT guy
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Useful OS X Applications for System Administrators. I have started heavily using my new Mac for both personal and professional use. Learning curve of OS X passed much sooner than I expected (less than a week). As mentioned in my previous. Post I have migrated from Windows to OS X, here I am listing out the alternative softwares which are helping me out to be as productive I was on Windows. I might add few more down the line, but as of now these are good to take me off. Https:/ www.textpad.com/. Http:/ ww...
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Specify gem version in ruby script. Posted on 20 Feb 2015. Amazon has recently launched AWS SDK for Ruby version 2. This was a good move, but unfortunately version 2 is not compatibe with version 1. Due to this my ruby scripts which were using old gem failed to work when I updated aws-sdk gem. This is how I tackled it. Now, that I have both the old and new version of them gems, I altered my old scripts to work with the v1 gem and the new ones to work with v2 gem. Continue reading →. Posted on 15 Sep 2014.
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How to use Route53 to manage DNS records | Life of an IT guy
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How to use Route53 to manage DNS records. In this post, I will walk you through another awesome service of AWS i.e Route 53. You might have a question popping in your mind, why it is called Route 53. It is because DNS listens on port number 53. To know more about DNS, visit this article. I assume that you have your domain with you and ready to create records. I am taking an example of mys3example.com. Login to Amazon console. And click on Route 53. Under Storage and Content Delivery. Usually Route 53 rec...
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Networking in VMware Fusion | Life of an IT guy
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Networking in VMware Fusion. I am in a long flight from Sydney to Dallas and was looking to kill some time. What can be better than writing a post for my blog :). I have seen and helped many people struggling with networking. In VMware Workstation or VMware Fusion. Common problems are unable to connect (ping/ssh/rdp) to the virtual machine from host or other VMs in the farm. When someone installs a VM (Linux or Windows), the very first requirement if often to have the ability to SSH or RDP it. Vikas@Vika...
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Hardware RAID Monitoring on Citrix XenServer 6.2.0 | Life of an IT guy
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Hardware RAID Monitoring on Citrix XenServer 6.2.0. Recently, I had installed Citrix XenServer 6.2.0. On IBM x3650 M2. Rack server and it had a LSI Logic 1068E. Now, I had to set up health monitoring for raid disks. Few minutes on Google lead me to mpt-status. And I found my new friend. The steps are pretty simple. Download the below RPMs. RPMs? Yes, Citrix Xenserver is toned down version of a 32-Bit Red Hat based distro. In fact, I found some CentOS 5.X packages installed on the server. Id 9 IBM-ESXS MB...
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mount could not find any free loop device | Life of an IT guy
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Mount could not find any free loop device. If you like to play with lots of ISO files at the same time, you will inevitably encounter the below error while mounting the ISO files as loop devices. Root@vikas027: # mount -a mount: could not find any free loop device root@vikas027: #. I have a PXE Kickstart Server. For which I need to mount numerous ISO (RHEL, OEL, Ubuntu, Debian, etc) files at the same time so that the can serve as Kickstart installation trees and yum repositories.
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How to host a website on AWS using S3 | Life of an IT guy
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How to host a website on AWS using S3. I have read many blogs, forums and youtube videos to host a website using Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). I ran into some issues while hosting my website which I will address in this post. I will cover the issue of Apex (or naked or bare) Domains too. For first 12 months. So lets start with what do you need to get this done. Amazon Web Service Account. First and foremost, register a domain name with any of the big players like GoDaddy. And click on S3. These two...
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How to create a GitHub blog - Jekyll with GitHub Pages | Life of an IT guy
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How to create a GitHub blog - Jekyll with GitHub Pages. This is my first blog post and it is for someone who is looking to create a blog with minimum efforts or is completely new to GitHub Pages. And of course Web development. There could be numerous options to improve this write up, I welcome everyone to post their issues and comments. So lets start with what do you need at the first place. Disqus Account (to enable comments). Linux Server (I have used CentOS 6 but you can use any Linux distro). Account...
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NFS on Mac OS X. Posted on 23 Aug 2014. My Ubuntu Kickstart Virtual Machine relies a lot on NFS for sharing ISO images from Mac OS X to the Kickstart Virtual Machine. Some people copy large ISO files to the VMs which I believe is not a good idea, waste of time and disk space. This is a short and sweet post of how I share various Linux distros ISO files with my kickstart server. And if you run out of loop devices check out this. I have kept all my ISO files under /Users/vikas/Documents/ISOs. It is definit...
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Specify gem version in ruby script | Life of an IT guy
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Specify gem version in ruby script. Amazon has recently launched AWS SDK for Ruby version 2. This was a good move, but unfortunately version 2 is not compatibe with version 1. Due to this my ruby scripts which were using old gem failed to work when I updated aws-sdk gem. This is how I tackled it. Now, that I have both the old and new version of them gems, I altered my old scripts to work with the v1 gem and the new ones to work with v2 gem. Gem aws-sdk, =1.60.1 require aws-sdk. Hope this saves your time.
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