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The most-watched IT questions this week: Oct. 6, 2009

Once again, we’ve compiled the 10 most watched questions on ITKE, and found some great discussions on topics ranging from virtualization to disaster recovery to disaster recovery. Go answer a question now and you could win a TV, or check out the rest of the top 10 on the Community Blog: 1. How...

How do I configure VMware guestOS(s) to talk to Vista Home Premium as a Host to access DB2 or any other database?

Greetings all, I have a Vista home premium 64-bit, 4GB AMD ram, etc on a HP pavillion Laptop. My goal is to work with DB2 in testing advanced features such as replication, federation, failover and data partitioning (DPF). I want to do all of this with one physical machine (a spare office laptop)...

Can't copy from NFS share to NFS share

Looking for help with a an NFS issue I have two shares one with zfs filesystem the other with a UFS filesystem shared via NFS. I use the shares as home directories for my users The ZFS has the following in dfstab running on solaris 10 share -F nfs -o anon=0,log /mypool/home The UFS has the...

Ideal memory for DB2 (V8 fixpak17a) on 64 bit Linux (SLES10SP2) box.

We are running one instance of DB2 (V8 fixpak17a) on 64 bit Linux (SLES10SP2) box. this box is dedicated to Db2. We have 32G of memory. I would like to know what is the ideal amount of memory to be allocated to DB2 and how much for the OS? Also how much of swap space should we have? ...

The IT Blog Top 10: Oct. 1, 2009

10. Choosing a block size when creating VMFS datastores Eric Siebert provides a guide detailing how to choose a block size for VMFS datastores. 9. Using VRDP to view VirtualBox virtual machines remotely Rick Vanover walks through Sun’s xVM VirtualBox’s ability to tap into VRDP remote viewing. ...

Automatic exchange of file between AS400 and Linux

Hi! A sympathic  colleague of my office comes to me and ask a very simple question  : Is ist difficult for a software working on LINUX to go and import Files in an AS400. I said him there are a lot of very good emulators functionning with windows. There are even possibilities of ODBC links with...

LINUX Key Audit checklists

Is there any standard LINUX Audit checklist procedure for assessment? Software/Hardware used: Hardware/Software

Installing apache with yum or kloxo fails

I'm running a VPS with Kloxo admin. When switching program I get an error install_httpd_failed  I've tried installing httpd via ssh and the problem seems to originat from yum. Any command to install or update a serive via yum gives the following error message Loaded plugins: fastestmirror...

EMC SAN and Ubuntu

Has anyone had success connecting their Ubuntu installation to an EMC SAN? They do offer Navisphere Agent support for Ubuntu Software/Hardware used: EMC SAN, Ubuntu

The most-watched IT questions this week: Sept. 22, 2009

Curious as to what the most popular IT questions and answers are on  ITKE? So were we! So we’ve been watching the watchlists, so to speak, to bring you the top 10 questions, answers and discussions at the top of user watchlists this week. Read them all at our Community Blog.

Nominate a member for our latest Panasonic flatscreen giveaway

In our latest (and biggest!) IT Knowledge Exchange giveaway, we're giving thanks to the star members of the community who provide quality contributions in their questions, answers and discussions. Did a member answer your question in a particularly great way?, Did someone recently contribute to...

blocking sites(URLs) by squid proxy server (Linux)(with webmin)

How to block some IP addresses of users so that they cann't access some defined sites by use of Webmin in Squid Server(access contol) ? Please help....?   Software/Hardware used: squid Proxy server(Linux)

Dual boot Windows 7 and Unbuntu

Does anyone have instructions on how to dual boot Windows 7 and Unbuntu Software/Hardware used: Ubuntu, Windows 7

What's the license of VM which running Windows or Linux?

What's the license of VM which running Windows or Linux? This question is from the Microsoft Virtualization Live Chat which took place on August 27th.

Redhat linux- What print command checks the list of print jobs yet to be processed

What print command checks the list of print jobs yet to be processed Software/Hardware used: RedHat

The most-watched IT questions this week: Sept. 15, 2009

As part of a new feature on the IT Knowledge Exchange Community Blog, we're highlighting the top 10 most-watched questions. Here are the top 5: Virtualization vs. Consolidation, Tracing a computer to an IP address, Connect remote Oracle 11g server in VB 6.0, How to utlize multiple static IP's when...

UNIX Security Assessment

What is the best way UNIX Assessment procedure? Software/Hardware used: Hardware & Software

Is there a release date for the Red Hat integration components?

Is there a release date for the Red Hat integration components? This question is from the Microsoft Virtualization Chat held on August 27th.

Community Update: The IT Blog Top 10 for Sept. 10, 2009

As part of a new feature on the Community Blog, each week we'll be doing a run down of the 10 most popular blog posts over the previous week, in case you were wondering what your peers were reading or a hot topic somehow missed your radar. Still think we missed something? Send me an e-mail at...

Unix/Linux vs. Windows

What are the advantages and disadvantages of UNIX/Linux vs. Windows? Software/Hardware used: Unix, windows