October 2008 Archives

Oct 30, 2008

Ubuntu / kubuntu 8.10 is Out today!!!

Posted by Martin Perron in News No comments

Oh Yeah!!!
Ubuntu:
http://www.ubuntu.com/
kubuntu:
http://www.kubuntu.org/


Oct 29, 2008

Configure a static and dynamic dhcp server on CentOS 5.2

Posted by Martin Perron in HowTo - Linux No comments

yum -y install dhcp
mv /etc/dhcpd.conf /etc/dhcpd.conf.ori
cp /usr/share/doc/dhcp*/dhcpd.conf.sample /etc/dhcpd.conf
to configure your server, your got all the example:
vi /etc/dhcpd.conf  
to force an interface, add the following line: DHCPDARGS=eth0
vi /etc/sysconfig/dhcpd   
Verify that the dhcp server start at bootup:
chkconfig –list | grep dhcp
If not:
chkconfig –levels 235 dhcpd on
Start the service:
/etc/init.d/dhcpd start
 
Reference: http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/s1-dhcp-configuring-server.html


Oct 28, 2008

Install CentOS 5.2 as a server (LAMP/Bind/ntp)

Posted by Martin Perron in Featured, HowTo - Linux 13 comments

Partition:
/dev/sda1 => ext3 -> /boot  -> 128MB
/dev/sda2 => ext3 -> / -> 32768MB
/dev/sda3  => swap  -> 2048MB
/dev/sda4 => ext3 -> /tmp -> Space left.
Disable IPv6 support if not needed.
-PACKAGE CONFIGURATION:
* Choose SERVER Templates.
* In the bottom, check CUSTOMIZE NOW.
-PACKAGES CUSTOMIZATION:
* In DEVELOPMENT: add DEVELOPMENT LIBRARIES, DEVELOPMENT TOOLS, LEGACY SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT.
* In SERVER: uncheck everything (remove [...]


Oct 24, 2008

Is KDE 4.1 for you?

Posted by Martin Perron in HowTo - Linux, Software Reviews No comments

KDE 4.1 was released at the end of July 2008. This is a significant milestone for the KDE 4 series and for KDE in general, but as an early release in the KDE 4 cycle, it does have some known issues which will not be fixed in KDE 4.1. Huge progress has been made in [...]


Oct 23, 2008

\SystemRoot\System32\RDPDD.dll failed to load

Posted by Martin Perron in HowTo - Windows No comments

From: http://blogs.technet.com/brad_rutkowski/archive/2008/01/04/systemroot-system32-rdpdd-dll-failed-to-load.aspx
This is an FYI post for an issue we’ve seen on a couple of Windows 2003 SP2 servers internally.  Hopefully if someone hits this in the wild they’ll be able to find this post on the intertubes.
Symptom:
When attempting to connect from the client via RDP,  you would click “connect” and then soon after it would [...]