The geek's log
How to: Linux Clustering in Five Minutes
Written by Mohd Izuardi Ibrahim   
Thursday, 14 December 2006

The first time I spoke the word " Beowulf Clustering" to my lecturer when he asks me what am I going to do for my small project, frankly I don't even know what "clustering" is... but I sure do know i've heard those words before... and I know it's gonna be fun.

Yeah, I do have fun (not to mention the horrible details I have to go through before getting to know what clustering really is and how it works..). There are many (damn complicated and yet tricky) way that you can setup your linux clustering, including Sycld Rock Clustering, but I'd love to share to you one of the easiest method to setup Linux Clustering (true, it takes me only about 5 minutes to bring up the cluster), that is by using the ParallelKnoppix.

 
Tips on creating SWAP partition
Written by Mohd Izuardi Ibrahim   
Friday, 20 October 2006

What is swap partition? : Save all of the technical explanation. If you are familiar with virtual memory in Windows, then SWAP does the same thing. If you are not, then SWAP partition is a partition where it becames the "secondary memory" apart from your physical memory (also commonly known as "RAM").

 

 
Using #crontab to schedule your tasks in linux
Written by Mohd Izuardi Ibrahim   
Friday, 20 October 2006

The situation: Before I go to my situation where i need to use the #crontab. Allow me to introduce you a bit about #crontab. crontab ( also known as cronjob) is a program to perform tasks (any tasks you give) during a specific time - even certain days of a week, or it could be anything. This command is just so powerful.

 

 
Verify your download using md5sum
Written by Mohd Izuardi Ibrahim   
Saturday, 30 September 2006

The situation: Often I found the md5sum term everytime I want to download softwares. At first I didn't even care what md5sum is. Ok, forget about it for a while...and talking of download, which there is one thing that annoys me regarding download and corrupted download file =.= 

 
Display and force quit/terminate a program/services running on background
Written by Mohd Izuardi Ibrahim   
Friday, 29 September 2006

Where windows Alt + Ctrl + Del doesn't applied in Linux

The situation: While working on some application, you might stumble into a situation where you need to force terminate a running application or services. It is easy to do it in Windows, simply by pressing Alt + Ctrl + Del combination.

 

 
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