Until We Meet Again

To My Colleagues / Friends at ITC / BGI / Blackrock

Today (16th Dec 2009) is my last day at ITC Infotech as I have decided to explore opportunities elsewhere in India. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all and let you know that I have enjoyed working with you over the past almost three years and am greatful for the opportunity to work with you.
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Creating VPNs with OpenVPN

Introduction

A VPN is a set of tools which allow networks at different locations to be securely connected, using a public network as the transport layer. A VPN produces a virtual “dedicated circuit” over the internet and use cryptography to secure it.
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Upgrade to php5 in CentOS 4

Recently one of my clients requested that he needs php5 on one of his production servers. The server runs CentOS 4.7 x86_64. I had recently migrated this server from RHEL 4.7 (see Migrating RHEL 4.6 to CentOS 4.6).
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Locale Problems in Debian and Ubuntu

Recently I have been facing some issues with locales in Debian and Ubuntu based Xen based virtual servers. These typically appear while running the man command and apt-get or dpkg commands.
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Migrating RHEL 4.7 to CentOS 4.7

Recently I was asked by one of my clients to convert their RHEL system to CentOS after their RHEL subscription expired. At the time of migration the server was running RHEL 4 update 7. Based on the current version, I chose the target version as CentOS 4.7.
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