Fix: Unable to click on Enter license key for VMWare Workstation
If you're unable to enter the license key for VMWare workstation version 8 or 9 on your Debian/Ubuntu based machines try the following command: sudo /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx --new-sn Note: Replace with the serial number. This should fix the issue. Alternative...
HTTP Compression test for your website
https://platonic.techfiz.info/2013/05/http-compression-test-for-your-website/Web servers can support compression of the websites content on server itself. If web servers such as apache is compiled with mod_deflate and configured to compress static files such as html, js, css, images etc your site would load faster. To test whether your web...
RAID1 – Boot from second drive after disk failure
RAID1 Drives allow you to have a redundant solution to bring back system with a mirrored drive during disk failures. Let us look at a disk failure in one of the linux machines. Run cat /proc/mdstat This will show the current raid statistics as as follows: server1:~#...
Citrix Xen – Server Pool unavailable
Due to power failure if your Citrix Xen Slave server doesn't get back online in pool, this might help: When the Xen environment changes the pool master, If a slave cannot reach the pool master it goes into a failed state. To change this edit pool.conf file (vi...
Copy or Mirror partition table from one drive to another
Use the following command to copy the partition table from sda to sdb. sfdisk -d /dev/sda | sfdisk -f /dev/sdb sfdisk -d dumps the partition table on to stdout. This is being piped to sfdisk /dev/sdb with the --force to write it on /dev/sdb. You can use dd to copy the...
Life at 16ft or 9100+ ft
After getting drenched in Ganga during our Auli trip @ Haridwar some how I started loving water sports more than ever. To give a little background on my water adventures, We were at Dandeli last year for a short vacation, photography & birding at Ganesh Guri, as...
My X!’s Edit Counter Result for Kannada Wikipedia
ToolServer shows my wiki activity. It's nice to see that I have done atleast an edit on Kannada wiki through out 2012. It has been very tempting to go and find stuff that is not available on Free Encyclopedia of my Language, and edit whatever I feel is necessary. Here...
Eiffel Tower & Vivekananda @ Lalbagh Flower Show
Eiffel Tower & Vivekananda @ Lalbagh Flower Show, a photo by omshivaprakash on Flickr. We were bit worried to be late for the flower show as it becomes too much crowded and we never enjoy even walking around the flower monuments created at Lalbagh. From year to...
iDeaBox – Share Your Old Book Shelf
I was having a word with a trekking friend about book that I had bought. Suddenly he recalled that he gave off many books just a week back while shifting his house. What a loss. He then realized that I might have been the right person to read those book once again! We...
Where do I start editing on Kannada Wikipedia?
Many people keep asking this question on facebook, in meetups etc. I have tried to compile a quick list of pointers to start editing on Kannada Wikipedia. Hope this helps. To start editing Wikipedia: First create an account on Kannada Wikipedia...
Weekend on Cycles
At last we ended up starting our long cycle trips last Sunday. The short weekends always make me feel lazy on Sunday mornings, but Pavithra makes sure that I don't hide behind the blankets. Still we ended up starting our journey only at 10AM. Thanks to house warming...
SecurityException in Application.cpp:188: Do not have root privileges. Executable not set-uid
If you're getting Internal server error all over the places on your websites on a cPanel server and PHP is configured to run as suphp CGI mode, then you might be observing the following error on error_log due to ModSecurity. It might be searching for the sticky/suid...
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