In da Wok ......

CCIE lab in 76 days

deadwait — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:44:18 +0000

Well i have’nt updated this blog in a real long time, lot of things occured in that period i finally got a newer laptop, the older one which i repaired started having problems with the LCD, i gave up and got a new one, the lenovo g450, labs work fine in them, have stopped using slitaz [...]

openBSd 4.7 is released

deadwait — Wed, 19 May 2010 15:57:48 +0000

well 4.7 is out, i finally found the src.tar.gz file , mpls here i come.

8500 ft above sea level

deadwait — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 05:08:26 +0000

That’s where we were since last Saturday, in landour Mussourie, today evening we will be returning back and I’m kinda feeling sad about it, might write a series of long posts regarding this vacation and will definitely put up a lot of photos.

Graphviz

deadwait — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 09:56:39 +0000

If your in working on slitaz and want to use the graphviz package, first thing you need to do after installing graphviz is , as root, type in dot -c , or you’ll keep getting errors.

First Steps with OpenBSD

deadwait — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 06:16:50 +0000

I’m using the acer aspire one D250, and as mentioned before the current snapshot is the only which detects the network card fine, but along with that even the Wireless card and Display card are detected fine. OpenBSD installs fvwm as the window manager for X, which is good not enough to get started and [...]

Happy Easter to you all

deadwait — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 10:03:51 +0000

Finally Easter, turned out to be the first i really enjoyed, i guess fast does that you, as a mumbai catholic i must be of the very few who must have never fasted before, but now i’m glad i did it, the thought came to me when my ex-boss mentioned it one day over lunch, [...]

dokuwiki lighttpd and error 413

deadwait — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 05:32:23 +0000

I decided to setup dokuwiki, to use as a documentation and network diagram database, ( if you think any other open source tool is better for this purpose , please tell me so ) , anyways the install is super easy, and as usual my server is slitaz, just do a tazpkg get-install php which [...]

Slitaz 3.0 is out

deadwait — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 04:34:41 +0000

Slitaz 3.0 is out, go get the coolest linux ever right now, –> slitaz

Welcome OpenBSD 4.7

deadwait — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:36:06 +0000

I know its not released yet, but i downloaded it from the snapshots, once i read that the alc driver from freebsd had been ported and installed it, installation was very smooth and easy, i actually booted it from a usb drive using a tool from pendrivelinux and then did a http install . [...]

Some cool Stuff coming in OpenBSD 4.7

deadwait — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 05:44:16 +0000

Taken from http://www.openbsd.org/47.html OpenBGPD, OpenOSPFD and other routing daemon improvements: * Update capability code in bgpd(8) to follow RFC 5492. * BGP MPLS VPN (RFC 4364) support added to the bgpd RIB. * In bgpd(8), implement the RFC4486 BGP Cease Notification Message subcodes. * [...]