*I* deas

I loved GS on MT ,it lets me do many things that i do only on my laptop but with a gift ready i think i would love to move on to dedicated virtual server on MT .its a little costly though $50 a month :( .

Any coupons that will help me bring it to under $40 ? . i know kirupa05 gives you a 15 % discount but still,may be upgrade from gs to mt costs less ?

Iam looking for some nice discount coupons ,anyone ?

and yeah MT is coming up with Django on grid servers ! i have applied for the beta programe ,still waiting ?

[tags]mediatemple,vps,dv,hosting [/tags]

Jottit.com allows you to create a standard page where you can jot down things if you are not the kind to carry a notebook with you all the while .

I usually save the links in my Gmail as drafts as all the while iam on the internet ,my gmail is open so i can be assured of acess .

But what happens if you want to share links or for that matter anything on the web with a lot of people then you can really find this tool useful .

The best thing about jottit.com is that its damn simple ,jus a text box and once u start off it then asks for password to claim the site and you are done :-) .

I know you have Google Notebook for jotting down things from web but then that doesnt make this tool useless ,its stil useful incase you are the guy who doesnt login to google accounts all the time .

You can see my page at http://taggy.jottit.com/

[tags]jottit,notebook,share[/tags]

Now that we have an official Open Solaris user group in our college ,i can find execuses to find computers and free internet .Last weekend i download belenix 0.6.1 and wanted to test it out .So i created some extra gigs on my laptop and installed it out .

Surprising that even though belenix has come out as a full fledged OS,it doesnt have an easy to use GUI installer .It can be difficult especially with partitioning a mistake here can rob you of your entire data on the disk . I tried it out and luckily didn’t screw it up .

After the installation finishes through and it asks for installing grub in mbr ,i say yes and when i reboot i end up with a dreadful GRUB> :( .I so very hate this grub prompt .

And then i had to look for the old commands to find my partition to load from ,and add to that the tabfor kernel path that i usually use in fedora or ubuntu is not there :( .

So,for people who got stuck like me ,here is what you need to do

GRUB> find /boot/grub/stage1

It returns something like ( hd0,2,a) [ for me]

then do

GRUB> root (hd0,2,a)

and it should tell you that the partition is ufs

GRUB> kernel /platform/i86pc/multiboot kernel/unix

It should tell you that kernel has been loaded

GRUB> module /platform/i86pc/boot_archive

GRUB>boot

and now you should see the belenix 0.6.1 booting up.

Apart form this ,belenix is wonderful.light (my laptop has 256 MB ram ) and also contains netbeans ( My fav java IDE) and yeah it obviously comes with DTrace .

And yeah for those with NVidia ,you have compiz too :).

If i have to give it a rating out of 10 i would give it atleast 8 ,and that too only because of its less user friendly installer,somehow installer is the first thing a user sees and it shouldn’t be put off .May be if belenix was a part of code for freedom i would love to write an installer for it in pygtk or gtk for that matter

I definitely suggest people try and use belenix .its not the best but no reasons why it can’t be :)

you can download from here

http://www.genunix.org/distributions/belenix_site/?q=download

[tags]opensolaris,belenix[/tags]

The need to speed up websites and optimize them has assumed importance more than ever .To increase hits and clicks your site must be able to arrive at the user’s browser much faster than mail :) .

But how do you know what makes your site load slower or what is that takes maximum resources and time for the user .

Pingdom gives you a set of tools that give out complete statistics of what goes in to your site’s loading time.

It displays all the files that a browser would download and also the size and loading time of the each file. All this put in together with a fantastic UI.

Now you can see which javascript is taking maximum time to load and which image is taking time.I for example reduced my blog’s load time from 6.2 seconds to 2.1 seconds and i found out what i should be doing by using pingdom and i figured out i was linking to a image from external website and also lots of unwanted plugins with javascript and my profile image which was at Freeshell.in .

Here is an example to what you can do

Here is the link to explore your site and optimize it .

http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/

Thanks to mediatemple ;) my blog is decent fast ,my college website takes almost 5 times my load :)

[tags]pingdom,website,optimise[/tags]

Maintaining a unix/linux based server is not easy ,especially with so many log files and if you were to trace an attack on your system ,it goes from /var/log /whatnot :) .

Many a times when i needed to look at some clean logs like my sendmail logs ,http logs ,looking through the text files can be a horrible experience .

Today i came upon splunk .Its a wonderful tool to analyze log files and provides you with an easy and intuitive user interface .

First the screenshots

And another ..

Steps to get splunk up and running

• Download Link
• tar -zxvf filename.tar.gz
• cd filename
• ./bin/setSplunkEnv
• ./bin/splunk

and now you must be able to run splunk ,and visit the splunk page at http://localhost:8000

Its a very useful and iam sure setting it up :) may be for those who maintain big servers should take a look at it .

[tags]splunk,server[/tags]