Archive for January, 2008

Google, Welcome to Malaysia!

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

As we know Google is considering building a largest off shore data center outside of US and probably Asia. In fact, many Asia country are trying hard to bring Google to their country such as: Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia, India and etc.
According to Slashdot, Malaysian prime minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi [...]

Are you receive Chinese New Year card?

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Personally I don't send any Chinese New Year greeting card to anyone anymore. Are you still receive or send any Chinese New Year greeting card?
Yes, I have received one Chinese New Year card from insurance agent today. I know this may not true in real life but some of them may create their own [...]

Add Planet Malaysia to your iGoogle

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Attention our readers, this is to informed another great news from us!
If you are iGoogle supporter, probably you can add Planet Malaysia Aggregates and Planet Malaysia Blog to your iGoogle now! 
How can I do that?

sign in to iGoogle in any internet browser
click here or copy and paste the URL link: http://www.google.com/ig/adde?moduleurl=hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/114784037938428703586/planetmy.xml in the new [...]

Running FreeNAS on Vmware ESX and VMware Workstation

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

My previous test about running OpenFiler as iSCSI target for VMware ESX on my desktop working well. As part of my on going testing with VMware ESX Server, I tested running FreeNAS version 0.686 on my VMware ESX version 3.01 and VMware Workstation 6.
FreeNAS is a free NAS (Network-Attached Storage) server, supporting: CIFS (samba), FTP, [...]

How to install and configure NTP on VMware ESX host

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

The following article will guide you ‘how to install and configure NTP on VMware ESX host’
1. SSH on to VMware ESX host service console as the root user
2. Make a backup copy of existing files.
[root@esxhost]#cp /etc/ntp.conf /etc/ntp.conf.orig
[root@esxhost]#cp /etc/ntp/step-tickers etc/ntp/step-tickers.orig
3. Edit /etc/ntp.conf
[root@esxhost]#vi /etc/ntp.conf
#Insert the following details as example below:
restrict ntp1.planetmy.com kod nomodify notrap server
restrict ntp2.planetmy.com kod [...]