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Published May 24th, 2009
I often forget all the parameters to mount a DVD on a running system, so here is my blog-reminder:
# mount -t iso9660 -o loop /path/to/dvd.iso /mount/point
Example:
mount -t iso9660 -o loop CentOS-5.3-i386-bin-DVD.iso /mnt/dvd
This will mount the CentOS 5.3 DVD iso on /mnt/dvd directory.
Published May 20th, 2009
We use BackupPC and have a love-hate relationship with it. We love that it works most of the time, and hate that it uses CGI Web interface and also outputs cryptic error messages when backup fails. But never the less, we have not found a better deal so far. Hence we continue to use it.
Here [...]
Published May 8th, 2009
Today we found out one of our customers office cannot connect to their mail server, which we host in our data center. They use comcast in their offices and comcast all of a sudden decided to not allow customers use comcast mail server for outgoing mail. Wonderful, no one told us that comcast did that [...]