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Creating and Using MS DOS Virtual Machine in QEMU

Being an old DOS user, sometimes there is an urge to go back to college days and recall how we used to do various things in DOS. Using dbase III, in a DOS environment reminds me of some of the … Continue reading

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Interconnecting QEMU and VirtualBox Virtual Machines

Sometime back I came across VirtualBox, an excellent replacement for commercial Vmware. I installed few OSes in VirtualBox and found the performance pretty good. In my opinion the performance of Windows virtual machines is much better in VirtualBox, perhaps because … Continue reading

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Setting Up A Local Yum Repository

Introduction Yum (Yello Dog Updater Modified) is a popular high level package management tool for RPM (Red Hat Package Manager) packages. RPM packages are used by several popular distributions based on Red Hat Linux. Some of these distributions are Red … Continue reading

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Monitoring Lotus Notes/Domino Servers

Very recently I was asked to setup Nagios to monitor the Lotus Notes/Domino Servers. There were some around 500 plus servers across the globe. It was an all Windows shop and the current monitoring was being done using GSX, HP … Continue reading

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Apache LDAP Authentication

mod_auth_ldap modules allows an LDAP directory to be used to store the database for HTTP Basic authentication. This document describes an example implementation in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This document also applies to any Linux distribution in general, provided … Continue reading

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