Jun 6, 2012
Fix Corrupt Yum Database
Recently ran across an issue when running yum update that threw a db3 error similar to this: rpmdb: Thread/process 16539/140090604701600 failed: Thread died in Berkeley DB library error: db3 error(-30974) from dbenv->failchk: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery error: cannot open Packages index using db3 – (-30974) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm... read more
May 30, 2012
Upgrade Fedora 16 to Fedora 17
Good news!! Fedora 17 has been released officially in the wild. Now the fun part, do we upgrade or fresh install? Well for my part I am upgrading. easy for me there is a simple way to upgrade using PreUpgrade package from Fedora. Open a terminal session and first make sure your system has the latest updates. $ sudo yum update Now lets install the preupgrade package. $ sudo yum install preupgrade Once the... read more
May 22, 2012
Installing .NET 1.1 on Windows 2008 R2
Overview This postexplains how to install .NET 1.1 on Windows 2008 R2. .NET 1.1 is not officially supported on Windows 2008 platform but can be installed and used. First IIS 7.5 must be installed with a few additional features. Step 1: Install IIS and IIS 6 Metabase Compatibility Open Server Manager and click on Roles. In the right pane click Add Roles, click Next on the Before You Begin Screen.... read more
May 20, 2012
Installing Nagios Part 2 – The Agents
In following with a previous post on installing Nagios we are ready to move to installing the agents. In particular Linux, Solaris 10 and Windows agents to allow Nagios to do what it does best and monitor. Linux For my installation I am using CentOS 6.2 for which the EPEL repository has all the packages I need for NRPE and Nagios Plugins. # yum search nagios nagios.x86_64 : Nagios monitors hosts and... read more
May 5, 2012
GIMP 2.8 Released
After a long wait GIMP 2.8 has been released. GIMP has always been my favorite graphics editor and it is free! I have always liked the fact that it is a cross platform app that I can use no matter what OS I have chosen to complete my task at hand. GIMP is the alternative to Photoshop which is great but very expensive product. Long-anticipated features such as layer groups, on-canvas text editing, advanced... read more
