I’ve installed Fedora Core 6 on Dell PowerEdge 4600 before and this whole week I’ve been trying to upgrade the previous installation to Fedora 10. However, I can’t get it running on the box. The installation went smoothly without any error but whenever I have to reboot the system to complete the installation, it cannot load the newly installed OS. I kept getting many types of errors, SCSI…PS/2…boot…dev/sda…fail…bla..bla..and bla…I have no idea how to eliminate all of those stupid warnings. I’ve tried fixing the bios, boot, RAID config, etc. but it seems that everything that I’ve done were not working. The errors are still there! damn!…I’m getting tired with those stupid servers! I’ve got 3 boxes to be set up by next week, one for web server, another one for application server and the last one for proxy server. Previously all of them were running Windows Server 2k/2k3 and my job is to eliminate those Wins from the boxes.

I will be trying Ubuntu 9.04 on those boxes by next week. I want to test Fedora 11 on those boxes but the launching date  of Fedora 11 Leonidas has been extended from 2nd to 9th June 2009.

I saw another interesting search terms on my Feedjit widget, “universiti malaysia sabah result hack“. As usual, I LOL~

hacking UMS exam result?...LOL!

The person was redirected to my site from Google Search as my blog came in the 10th place for the results. It seems that the person is REALLY desperate to change his/her score. Well, I think he came to the “right” place.. (…cuma tak beri salam pada ‘tuan rumah’…main jenguk dan blah je..)

*p/s: let me know if you have found your way in..hehehe~*

After failing miserably (this whole week!) to run Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) on Dell PowerEdge 4600, today I had successfully installed Fedora Core 6 on the box. At first when I get the chance to work with the quite-old-server (6 years old), I wasn’t aware about any OS related issues with it, so I just go on with my favourite distro (Ubuntu) and formatted the whole disks and install Intrepid as the server’s new operating system. But then whenever the box was rebooted, the only thing that appear after the BIOS startup were “Error Loading Operating System” and “Missing Operating System”. At first, I thought it was my fault that maybe I have done something wrong during installation process, RAID settings, etc. but then after trying several times I am sure that it was caused by the box itself. Googling for the problem doesn’t help much. When I came across PE4600 user guide, I found that the only operating system supported by PE4600 are:

• Microsoft® Windows NT® 4.0 Server
• Microsoft Windows® 2000 Server and Advanced Server
• Red Hat Linux 7.x
• Novell® NetWare® version 5.x

No wonder the installation before were complete failure. Then I look for other Linux OS on the CD archive but most of them were either damaged, “partial” (missing parts) or outdated (…and they have about 5 same-version-Ubuntu discs..wow!). The only working discs were Fedora Core 6 (in 4 CDs), a 2006 distro…duh! I have no choice but to use it because:

• - the PE4600 can only read CDs as it has no DVD drive (…it’s really fucking old…
• - no more CDs stock at the moment..
• - I’ve wrongly downloaded the Fedora 10 live CD, and the installation failed on that..
• - Fedora has somewhat relation with RHL, I “think” it will meet the OS requirement..
• - …..I’m in a hurry!

Inserted the first CD, choose the options and remove all GUI leaving only the core components, and there it goes…a smooth and successful installation!

The “new” box is running, but without a proper network connection. Then I reconfigure the network settings, set up the static IP address for eth0 adapter (the other two NIC slots were not used). The box were running fine on the network, but without connection to WAN. damn!…I forgot to add the NameServer record.

Edited the /etc/resolv.conf file and added the DNS server’s address, nameserver 10.x.x.x, to the record and walla!…a success!

*side note: Kris Allen won A.I 2009!…suck. Adam was way better…so does Allison

Yesterday my supervisor @ ‘boss‘ assigned a task for me. My primary job is to create a vehicle registration system for monitoring the distribution of car stickers for PKK staff’s and to replace the current manual filing system. Not my favorite type of work…but…whatever~

Besides doing the main task for my report evaluation, I am also required to deal with networking, server administration and troubleshooting. These are the fields that I prefer the most. I really hate doing programming (sometimes), but because of my varsity course, I am required to do something that suits my study field…wrong course choice, I think..whatever~

Since my first day at PKK, I noticed that their DHCP IP always goes berzerk after every few hours. The DHCP IP would get disconnected and then after about half an hour, it would be back to normal and then a few hours later the same thing keeps repeating. No wonder the staffs always complain about the inaccessible internet. It’s actually because of their DHCP server. I told them about the problem and suggest them to use static IP. I have been using static IP since my first day and when the problem occurs, the only person who were able to surf the net was me. Then my boss showed me the DHCP server they were using, a Fedora 9 box. She asked my opinion about the DHCP server problem but since I don’t know the server settings and I am not quite sure how the thing operates, I suggest that it may have been caused by some misconfiguration or hardware/networking problems. She asked me about some command on the unix box since she was not quite familiar with it and reboot the box. Then I learned that the server actually may have some hardware and OS problems after it hang upon loading some startup module (always happened) and the server could not be shut down ‘normally’ (the power button is damaged)…old box

Tomorrow I will be continuing my work to troubleshoot one of the file server, which are running on Windows Server 2003 and always having problem of getting disconnected from the network (if I’m not mistaken), and also setting up the KVM switch for monitoring multiple servers from a single keyboard, video monitor and mouse.

Today is my first day going to internship at ICT Department, Politeknik Kota Kinabalu. I arrived early in the morning, about 7.35 a.m like that. Then I waited for 20 minutes before entering the office as I don’t see anyone inside although the door is open. After I went inside, I introduced myself to the staff and waited for another 50 minutes for the staff-in-charge to come. She is late because of some problems in the administration department. Nevermind. After a brief chat with her, she introduced me to my office mates. They are all very friendly. It was a slow start, but at the end of the day we started talking cock. My job for the first day, nothing in particular. I made a straight-through cable for the servers as the technician was not available. The specific job has not been assigned yet but I have an intuition that it will be something which “I don’t like”. Whatever~

GEORGETOWN: Seorang pensyarah Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) hari ini membuat laporan polis berhubung satu klip video dalam sebuah laman web yang didakwa menghina dan mempersenda Islam.

Pensyarah di Jabatan Komunikasi USM, Prof Madya Muhammad Hatta Muhammad Tabut, berkata klip video selama 1 minit 23 saat itu dimasukkan dalam laman web http://www.youtube.com oleh seorang yang menamakan dirinya sebagai “Streeticeshark” kira-kira dua bulan lalu.

“Klip video itu memaparkan seorang lelaki memakai seluar jean tanpa baju sedang menyembah potongan ayat Al-Quran sambil berkata, ’sabda Rasulullah (saw.), marilah kita semua orang Melayu makan babi’.

“Klip video yang turut memaparkan dia mengajuk laungan azan telah disaksikan 9,032 pengunjung laman web antarabangsa itu,” katanya kepada pemberita selepas membuat laporan polis di Balai Polis Jalan Patani di sini, hari ini.

Muhammad Hatta berkata, pihaknya telah membuat siasatan dan alamat Internet Protokol (IP) di laman web berkenaan menunjukkan ia didaftarkan di Kota Baharu, Kelantan.

“Kami berharap pihak yang bertanggungjawab menyiasat dan mengambil tindakan tegas demi mencegah perkara sedemikian daripada terus berulang”, katanya. - Bernama

source: Berita Harian

Ternampak berita ni sebentar tadi di headline Mutakhir dan teringat kembali tentang video ni yang semacam pernah dilihat sebelum ni. Bila tengok balik history browser dan klip video tu, baru la konfem yang memang aku pernah tengok benda ni dulu. Satu tindakan yang bagus dengan melaporkan kepada polis, at least lepas ni tiada lagi orang-orang bangang suka letak klip video macam tu di internet. Cuma ada satu benda saja yang menarik perhatian aku tentang berita tu yang telah di-bold-kan. How the heck can he trace the IP of the user?..kecuali la dia ni admin youtube atau dia ada berhubung dengan staff youtube (which I doubt!)..Mungkin tersalah laporan oleh wartawan yang tak tau selok belok komputer atau pensyarah ni yang tak tau nak describe the situation. Actually the location is stated clearly on his (the poster’s) profile (betul atau tidak, blakang cerita..), no need to do stupid IP tracing la..

Anyway, the statement “pihaknya telah membuat siasatan dan alamat Internet Protokol (IP) di laman web berkenaan menunjukkan” makes him looks super-fucking-cool, like he’s somewhat a hacker or working with some special organization that can track and trace user’s IP without having to ask youtube’s permission, etc.

cool huh!