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About javier

Mexicano, Ingeniero en Sistemas egresado del Instituto Tecnológico de Durango, Maestro en Software Libre por la Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua. Apasionado de medio tiempo de la fotografía y guitarrista de closet.

CentOS 5 | NTFS support for Linux

Hi All, After three hours finally my Linux box is able to mount NTFS partitions. Check this link: Linux-NTFS RPMs Documentation. Is really simple, you only need to download the appropriate RPM file. By the way, it just works fine … Continue reading

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Fedora Core 6 | How long are my services running?

If you need to know how long your Linux services have been running you can try this: Linux console $ ps waux | grep -i Or Linux console $ ps -o etime < pid> To get the PID you can … Continue reading

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Fedora Core 6 | Enabling GD support

Do you need PHP support for GD? First you need to be sure this module is not already installed, on a shell window run the following command: Linux console $ rpm -qa | grep php If you have something like … Continue reading

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Una semana muy interesante

Esta semana ha sido muy interesante. Lunes: Una falla en la red inalabrica que afecto solo a media docena de usuarios me mantuvo ocupado desde muy temprano, no pude encontrar nada en los logs, asi que realize un ”’analisis”’ que … Continue reading

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July 27th, 2007 8th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day

If you can read this, thank your sysadmin A sysadmin unpacked the server for this website from its box, installed an operating system, patched it for security, made sure the power and air conditioning was working in the server room, … Continue reading

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OMFG: The FBI installs spyware to search online

As you hear. The mighty and omnipresent FBI is installing ”’spyware”’ to search on line. Get familiar with this term: CIPAV, which stands for: Computer and Internet Protocol Address Verifier, we are going to hear a lot of this. Since … Continue reading

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Network – VLAN’s

A VLAN (”Virtual LAN”) is a broadcast domain created by one or more switches. That means that a switch separates their ports into VLAN’s to reduce the broadcast traffic. The reasons to create VLAN’s are: 1. Separate traffic, keep PC’s … Continue reading

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PAE – Physical Address Extension

Lets say you have a server whith 8 GB RAM installed and when you are getting ready to put the server on production you discovered that it is only reporting 4GB RAM. Don’t be alarmed! It is not a hardware … Continue reading

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TCP/IP Protocol

TCP/IP architecture Protocols Application HTTP, POP3, SMTP Transport TCP, UDP Internetwork IP Network interface Ethernet, Frame relay

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The folded tostada

Have you ever been USA? Well, if you have I suppose you have tried one of those ‘tacos’; from Taco Bell. Let me tell you, those are not tacos; those are Folded Tostadas.

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