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            <p>I need to have ReiserFs support in my <a href="001056.html">(Annoying) Centos</a> server. Sadly, the Centos Plus kernel doesn't support Reiser as it is. As <a href="1068.html">I learnt the hard way</a>, It's not safe to attempt to replace the kernel without physical access to the server (The server is in California I am in Sri Lanka), the only way is to compile reiserfs as a module.</p>
            <p>When you do a <em>make menuconfig</em> followed by a <em>make</em>, this is what you get:</p>
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            <p><a href="001056.html">Lame old Centos</a> doesn't support Reiserfs. When the old server was replaced, the hard drive that contained the data was moved across to the <a href="1037.html">new server</a>. It wasn't until a little while ago that I had need to access that data. It was then that I realized that it has a <a href="566.html">Reiserfs partition</a> which is not supported by Centos.</p>
            <p>There were lots of horror stories all over the web from different people who had tried to compile the kernel on Centos. It's littered with pitfalls for the unwary (and even the wary). Apparently the best thing to do, is to install what is known as the Centos Plus kernel.</p>
            <p>It can be installed using yum by the following command:</p>
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            <div>yum --enablerepo=centosplus install kernel</div>
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            <p>The tricky bit is to reboot the server. It's never a good idea to install a kernel when you do not have physical access to it. In this case I felt that I have no choice, so I changed grub.conf and did a reboot. Predictably the server failed to come up.</p>

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            <p>What does a Macbook and a Sigma Zoom lense have in common? their out of this world pricing (at least in Sri Lanka.)</p>
            <p>Today I walked into the apple retailer's shop in Colombo and inquired about macbooks and Imacs. The entry level macbook is Rs 153,000.00 compare that with the price in Singapore which is only Rs 122,000.00 (at current rates) or the price in the US which is just Rs 112,500.00 the gap widens when you look at more powerfull options.</p>
            <p>I wasn't really suprised. When the <a href="988.html">Macbook was first released</a>, I called them up to check the prices and they said it will be in the range of 150,000 (but that was before they actually recieved any stock). The suprise was when I walked into Phototechnica and inquired about the price of a sigma 50-500 zoom lense for my D70S.</p>
            <p>I as given a price of Rs 144,000.00 This costs only about Rs 100,000.00 in the US. In the past, phototechnical always had more reasonable pricing. The prices of their cameras and lense were only a bit higher than the prices in Singapore.</p>
            <p>That's what suprised me.</p>
            <p>My eyes bulged when I asked after the price of a D70S. It's now 145,000.00, mine was Rs 129,000.00 last december. At the time, it was available online for about 110,000.00 that price hasn't changed, but the phototechnica price has.</p>
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            <p>The <a href="http://www.saadhu.com">saadhu.com</a>, the first asian electronic novel will be celebrating it's 8th birthday soon. And it's about time that I regained full control of the domain name.</p>
            <p>I certainly own the domain but I am not in full control of it due to a sequence of events that took place over period of time. It started off when Netaddress switched stopped their free service. I was a student at the time and I wasn't keen to pay for something that is available for free elsewhere. The result was that I lost the email address listed as the administrative contact for saadhu.com</p>
            <p>That in itself didn't matter cause I didn't need to make any modification at all to that domain for quite a while, but then eventually I decided to stop using Network solutions. I tried to transfer the domain a couple of years ago but it turns out my old network solutions password was lost. The trouble is the email address to which the password reset is being sent to is no longer in use.</p>
            <p>I tried to recreate the usa.net address dozens of times, but their payment process kept on failing. Support emails went unanswered, and phone calls only result in an all our agents are busy message. Two events which have become the norm rather than the exception with many US companies.</p>
            <p>I tried again yesterday with a different card, and Eureka the payment was finally processed. Now I own the <a href="../../cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="bdcfdcd9d4c9d5dcfdc8cedc93d3d8c9">[email&nbsp;protected]</a> address which used to be mine many years ago. With that, I reset the Network solutions account and filed in a domain transfer request. It remains to be seen whether there will be another twist to the tale.</p>
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            <p><a href="https://centos.org">Centos</a> is getting on my nervous. raditha.com is now hosted on a <a href="1036.html">server that runs Centos</a>. It was unavailable for nearly two days purely because it's fault (though the Centors community might argue that the fault is mine).</p>
            <p>The server had to be restarted (because a new hard disk was added), after the restart apache had not started up and it went unnoticed. Well you would say that's my fault. The fact that apache didn't start up is not my fault though.</p>
            <p>Each time the server was restarted, the OS decided to start up a mail server other than qmail, <a href="1035.html">which I installed manually</a>. By default the server had sendmail, which I removed when installing qmail. The first restart resulted in the postfix being started up instead of qmail, that was promptly removed but on the next restart, exim was started up! I am wondering what other suprises Centos has in store for me.</p>

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            <p>A friend of mine returned from Sweden a few days ago and gave me a Logitech Quickcam Express as a present. This is the <a href="000361.html">second time</a> that I have recieved a webcam as a present. Both cameras unfortunately are unusable on linux.</p>
            <p>When you plug the device nothing happens, except for a message in the log file.</p>
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Monthly Archives for 2006 09

Building a kernel on Centos

Centos and Reiserfs.

Macbook and Sigma Zoom.

Getting hold of the Saadhu.

Centos Getting on My nervous.

Logitech Quickcam express.