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Entries for November, 2008

Xen Guest, Dom U - dont use LVM

I dont see any reason why one should use lvm in xen guest. The whole idea of using lvm is to have the ability to resize disk size easily and resizing a xen guest can be done easily without using LVM. Actually, having LVM in xen guest complicates the process of resizing… You can google [...]

Configure Mutt to receive mail via POP3

1. install ‘fetchmail’ to get mail from POP3 server.
2. under home dir, create .fetchmailrc and use following syntax (assuming no ssl)
poll [SERVER] with proto [PROTOCOL]
user [REMOTE_USER] there with password [REMOTE_PASSWORD] is [LOCAL_USER] here
3. Start getting mail using “fetchmail -v”
4. mutt tips:
# view html within mutt
auto_view text/html
# press I to auto fetch mail
macro index I ‘ [...]

Zend QuickStart Error

If you have been following the zend quickstart tutorial at Zend site:
http://framework.zend.com/docs/quickstart
and couldn’t work out why it didn’t work… You need to check a few things. A few friends complained that the code aren’t working. How can you expect Zend to release something that is not working??!! Well, I was persuaded to go through the [...]

Google Adsense Scam - Tricky

I think this is tricky. the url might look ok on first glance
http://adwords.google.com.session-57391038778512910152.17112081177941850527
.sys68.ru
look again. the extension is .ru not .com.

Our system was unable to process a payment for your outstanding Google
AdWords account balance using your primary credit card. For the time being,
your account is still open, and your ads are still running. However, we
require you [...]