SCO OpenServer

another unix flavor added into my portfolio, SCO OpenServer 6.0.0 ;)

friend of mine asked me to do the SCO installation last friday. upfront i told him that i never do any of SCO installation before so don't expect it will go smoothly. well i was right, it didn't go the way it should. we stayed up till 4am but still couldn't get it installed. dang!!!

the hardware is Dell PowerEdge R200. at first it was SATA CDROM issue. somehow SCO couldn't detect it if its connected to 2nd or 3rd SATA port. we opened up & changed to port 0 then it good to go. then half way through the hard disk couldn't be detected! turned out the SCO installation CD doesn't have this Dell RAID Controllers driver. after googling, downloading & burning necessary files, we finally made it through. yeyyy!!!

one thing about SCO installation script, it sucks big time. we have to find out ourselves on how to load those addtional drivers. there's no help or note during the installation tell us how to do so. we even need to key in all those license & code key during the installation. couldn't it wait once it get installed? well, anyway we successfully installed it, now time to configure.

on the same time we also did the FreeBSD 7.2 installation. on the same spec of hardware but the installation was straight forward & perfect. we even only use the bootonly cd, the rest downloaded through mirror. freebsd rock, SCO scissors hehehehehe :P

p/s: probably you all wonder why not use other unix or linux for that SCO box, but according to my friend, it was their legacy application running on Infromix database that only can run on SCO. whatever lor... (janji payment aku jgn lupa! hehhehe)

tab for putty

have u ever wish putty comes with the tabbing? your wish come true :)


get PuTTY Connection Manager here - http://puttycm.free.fr/

p/s: baru terasa cam pakai konsole KDE ;)

data center

HP BladeSystem c7000 front view

its has been quite sometime for me not visiting data center. i think it was like 1 year plus ago. not like friend of mine ni, tiap2 hari kuor masuk dc :P

but recently we have a project to build up new infrastructure that made me visiting this freezing dc again.

as u can see from the pics here, this new infrastructure will consists of 4 HP BladeSystem c7000 rack up in 2 racks and 2 of NetApp FAS6080 also in 2 racks.

HP BladeSystem c7000 rear view

from the 1st pic you can see 2 HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosures. the upper enclosure consists of 4 full-height (FH) Server Blades with 8 Virtual Connect modules (rear view). we gonna install VMWare ESX servers here to host windows & linux as clients.
and the lower enclosure consists of 16 half-height (HH) Server Blades with 4 Virtual Connect modules. these will be installed with linux.

NetApp FAS6080 front view

NetApp FAS6080 rear view

and each of the NetApp FAS6080 comes with 21terabytes of disk storage. so total up is 42terabytes. huge huh!

p/s: storage tu aku rasa lebih dari cukup utk mirror kan semua porn or torrent oss projects :P

ubuntu + 32" Sony Bravia LCD

well, its actually Ubuntu Live CD running on my Dell Latitude D830. Unfortunately couldn't get it to work in full screen. maleh nak godek sbb lagipun running from live cd.

and this is XP. perfecto!

p/s: now what i need is the new wireless keyboard & mouse ;)
leh la surfing from couch jer hehehehee

bunyi yang dilihat

baru balik dari melayan Konsert Alam Muzik M. Nasir di Istana Budaya sebentar tadi. best giler! superb!

actually konsert ni start esok 27, 28 Feb & 1 Mac, mlm ni tadi kiranya warm up session la hehehe. org2 terpilih jer leh gi tgk ;) (thanks to my SIL)
tapi tadi emcee dia ckp tickets all sold out. hahaha padan muka korang tak dpt tgk!!! and padan muka redmummy tak dpt pegi kena jaga anak2 hehehhe

berakustik lagu kelate

1 2 3 do re mi apa nak jadi alif ba ta a b c

rasa cam nak berjoget pun ade tadi, sib baik la kat istana budaya, kalo dak sure jadik joget lambak!

Dalam hutan
Ada taman
Dan dalam taman
Ada puterinya
Dalam baju
Ada cinta
Dan dalam cinta
Ada segala-galanya

p/s: dan cinta itu penuh keindahan... kasih dan sayang....