Yea, so where’s the system administrator when you need one?!? Shared my support work time fiddling with our server at office.

Atlantis rolled over and died last week.. I’m now trying to raise if from the dead.. Sounds catchy eh?!? Being the support engineer, slightly a mentor and mostly a system administrator has really taken a toll on me today. Standing in a server room is never a fun thing to do.. Especially when the keyboard and the monitor is weirdly configured..

Oh well, it’s part of a very big learning process on how to setup a server for people to use. Learned something today also. I was struggling on how to set $JAVA_HOME globally. I’ve always set my desktop’s $JAVA_HOME at ~/.bashrc which is not a good method of doing so. Googling taught me to set it at /etc/bash.bashrc.

Source: Difference between .bash_profile and .bashrc Files

What else.. What else..

Well, here’s something that would put a smile on your face:

Guess it’s about time that I sit down and do an update again!  For the past week, the goal at work was to reach the next support level which I am but two points away! Seesh.. How tough is it to get those points.. Work for this week was largely scarce. Most of the people in office are off in conjunction with the Hari Raya holidays. Did have to do the night shift work on Monday as one was on leave and another one on medical leave. 1st day of Hari Raya was spent at church installing fans, lights and wire trunking from 10AM till 9.30PM. Hiding wires is not fun!! Neither is it fun to do it outdoors at 7PM when mosquitoes are taking pot-shots at your leg.. Buggers..

Swapping to Ubuntu on my home desktop has caused me two specific problems:

1. Unable to hear any audio from Flash + Firefox which equals to ultimate stress. Checking out my solutions did not work. Removing and reinstalling Firefox and the Flash plugins did not help. But suddenly this morning, things started to work with libflashsupport, flashplugin-nonfree and a few tweeks to System > Preferences > Sound.

2. Utopia Angel will not run on Wine. Now this one, I do not have the means and the expertise to even comprehend on how to fix it.. Dammit. Why the hell does everything have to be built for Windows..

New stuff for this week and last month:

1. Dell Multimedia Keyboard

2. Ubuntu OS on desktop

3. Brisingr - The latest book to the Inheritance series by Christopher Paolini

4. Something bigger and better than all that I had ever owned. Stay tuned!!

My first post from:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092510 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.3

Windows finally decided to give up on me. Therefore, I have given up on it too! Eat dirt Windows!!

Yea, that’s the right word for it! Pic SPAM!!

Truvative Stylo crank 2nd hand

Hope Pro 2 Hubs (Gold). Just what the doctor ordered!! A new set of hubs to bling Stumpy up! Go Stumpjumper go!!

Ahh, just got down to installing a VMWare on my machine to get Ubuntu up and running. Wanting to get out of the dark side just seems so hard.. Manage to get the scroll on the mouse working by having this configuration in my xorg.conf:

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Configured Mouse”
Driver “mouse”
Option “CorePointer”
Option “Device” “/dev/input/mice”
Option “Protocol” “IMPS/2″
EndSection

After trying out many different configurations found at Google, this worked for me.. Changing the driver type and adding the Protocol options worked.. Bugger!!