TheCloud Wi-Fi SpeedTest

I was using my android on my local McDs TheCloud Wi-Fi hotspot this morning and decided to do a couple of SpeedTests and I was very impressed to see 5M download speed – thats the same as i get on my cable at home !

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moving & swapping google apps domains

If you are getting the error Error: This domain name has already been used as an alias or domain when you are trying to move or swap a Google Apps domain alias or primary domain try either waiting for at least five days or delete the existing primary account in order to create a new primary account.

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PhotoRec & TestDisk file undelete

PhotoRec & TestDisk file recovery and FAT, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS undelete programs allow you recover accidentally deleted photos, videos or other files on SD cards and most other digital camera media and memory.

PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks, CD-ROMs, and lost pictures (thus the Photo Recovery name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the file system and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media's file system has been severely damaged or reformatted.

TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery program! It was primarily designed to recover lost partitions, repair FAT/NTFS boot sector, NTFS MFT and Ext2/Ext3 superblock and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software or human error (such as accidentally deleting your Partition Table).

Screenshots

See also

• http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/DOS_BootDisk
• http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Livecd
• http://git.cgsecurity.org/cgit/testdisk/

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.EU Internationalised Domain Names

the .eu domain is now supporting ACE Internationalised Domain Name (IDN) names which means that most european characters can now appear in the domain name part of URIs and URLs !

Examples:

• déjà.eu (or xn--dj-kia8a.eu)
• vis-à-vis.eu (or xn--vis–vis-2ya.eu)

Note : type the second (ACE encoded) version in brackets if your keyboard doesn't have a à character !

See also:

• http://www.domainmonster.com/domains/eu-idn/
• http://faq.domainmonster.com/domains/idn/what-is-an-ace-string/
• http://news.domainmonster.com/new-eu-idn-domain-name/
• http://www.domainmonster.com/domain-registration/eu-idn/
• http://faq.domainmonster.com/domains/eu/german-%C3%9F-in-my-eu-idn/

And if you're interested in Arabic or Russian domain names see:

• http://news.domainmonster.com/dec_2009/

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Sun Solaris 10 and Sun OpenSolaris 10

Sun Solaris 10 Operating System and Sun OpenSolaris 10 Operating System

Supported on over 1000 x86 and SPARC platforms—delivers the performance, stability and security your users and customers demand. With more applications available than for any other open operating system, one OS can span your entire enterprise: the Web tier, the data warehouse, and the most demanding technical compute applications.

Solaris appears to be free of charge (subject to the Legal Requirements below) while OpenSolaris is free libre open and free of charge !

OpenSolaris Links

• http://www.opensolaris.com/get/index.jsp
• http://www.opensolaris.com/learn/specifications/
• https://oscd.sun.com/
• http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/opensolaris/get.jsp

Solaris Links

• HCL http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/os/ listing 800+ desktops and 2000+ notebooks
• HCL search page http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/search.jsp
• http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/10/index.jsp

Solaris Legal Requirements

The Solaris 10 code can be obtained via a free Web download, obtaining a Solaris 10 media kit through the Sun store, receiving Solaris 10 pre-installed on Sun systems, among other methods. Use of the operating system is governed by the terms of the Software License Agreement (SLA).

In order to use the Solaris 10 Operating System for perpetual commercial use, each system running the Solaris 10 OS must have an entitlement to do so. The Entitlement Document is delivered to you either with a new Sun system, from Sun Services as part of your service agreement, or via e-mail when you register your systems through the Sun Download Center.

In addition, if you install the Solaris 10 OS on additional systems, you must register those systems to receive an additional Entitlement Document.

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Now everyone can try an Amazon AWS EC2 JumpBox for an hour !

You dont need an Amazon AWS Account, a credit card or even need ElasticFox !

JumpBox will automatically start up an Amazon AMI for you on the cloud and shut it down one hour later !

Try an Amazon EC2 JumpBox with Zenoss for yourself for an hour @ http://www.jumpbox.com/app/zenoss

Just give them your email address your get three URLs:

• Amazon EC2 JumpBox Admin https://ec2-<random-ip-addr&gt;.compute-1.amazonaws.com:3000
• Amazon EC2 JumpBox Zenoss Admin http://ec2-<random-ip-addr&gt;.compute-1.amazonaws.com/jblogin.html
• Amazon EC2 JumpBox Zenoss User http://ec2-<random-ip-addr&gt;.compute-1.amazonaws.com/

Surely this is the future of all software demos for distros, software appliances, virtual machines, etc etc ?

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SYS-CON Magazines

SYS-CON Magazines:

• http://linux.sys-con.com/
• http://php.sys-con.com/
• http://soa.sys-con.com/
• http://virtualization.sys-con.com/

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WebMin VirtualMin is a “non-core module” !

So if you wish to update WebMin VirtualMin you must tick the "Update non-core modules as well" checkbox on the WebMin Module Update screen !

PS VirtualMin is now available as a Amazon EC2 AMI.

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ABC – Always Be Copying

A New Moto for System Administrators
I noticed that nj_dodge and ekarjala have created a flickr group ABC – Always Be Capturing possibly inspired from the sales persons favorite moto "Always Be Closing" featured in the film Glengarry Glen Ross !

Glengarry Glen Ross [1992]

So following on from recent real world System Administration experience I've thought I'd try to come up with a ABC moto for SysAdmins !

First I thought of:

• Always Be Backing Up

but the TLA of this is ABBU instead of ABC so I then thought of changing it slighty

• Always Be Copying
• Always Be Cloning (too virtualisation specific ?)

are there any better ABC motos for SysAdmins ?

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Unbound DNS validating resolver

Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver.

The C implementation of Unbound is developed and maintained by NLnet Labs. It is based on ideas and algorithms taken from a java prototype developed by Verisign labs, Nominet, Kirei and ep.net.

Unbound is designed as a set of modular components, so that also DNSSEC (secure DNS) validation and stub-resolvers (that do not run as a server, but are linked into an application) are easily possible.

The source code is under a BSD License.

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