HyperVM Xen Installation
HyperVM installation consists of downloading either the hypervm-install-master.sh or hypervm-install-slave.sh from download.lxlabs.com and executing them as root. They will download all the required files and do the complete installation on their own. You will need to disable selinux. edit /etc/sysconfig/selinux and then run setenforce 0.
Installing suPHP on Centos 5
suPHP is a tool that allows PHP scripts to be executed with the permissions of their owners. By not running PHP script using web server’s user rights, suPHP increase the server security.
First install httpd-devel and compiler tools:
yum install httpd-devel gcc gcc-c++ make
Installing libTorrent and rTorrent on Linux Centos
As requested by one of my blog reader, I write this libTorrent and rTorrent installation tutorial 
I’m installing libTorrent and rTorrent on a Xen based VPS with Linux Centos 5.4
From the project’s website:
LibTorrent is a BitTorrent library written in C++ for *nix, with a focus on high performance and good code. The library differentiates itself from other implementations by transfering directly from file pages to the network stack. On high-bandwidth connections it is able to seed at 3 times the speed of the official client.
To install libTorrent and rTorrent first we install the compiler and dependencies required
Installing Gnome and VNC Remote Desktop on Centos VPS
After writing a how-to on installing Gnome and VNC server on Ubuntu Linux, this time I blog on the same tutorial but now I use Centos 5.3 Linux.
It’s almost similar with Ubuntu, but on Centos we use YUM instead of apt-get command. Both package managers have its own fans, nevertheless both yum and apt-get deliver an easy to use package installer.
To read the how-to please go to: http://www.talk.web.id/2009/08/installing-vnc-remote-desktop-on-centos-vps/ as I write it for Talk Web ID. If you like the tutorial or have questions, please write on the comment box.
Installing VNC Remote Desktop on Ubuntu Linux VPS
I have a linux Ubuntu 8.10 VPS that I would like to have GUI and use it as remote desktop pc just like what we can do with Windows XP. Here are the steps that I run.
no_pubkey apt-get update
I just installed a virtual machine using Ubuntu linux and got NO_PUBKEY error messages when tried to update my Ubuntu installation using "apt-get update" command. To fix this you'll need to install some gpg key:
gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net --recv 9AA38DCD55BE302B gpg --export --armor 9AA38DCD55BE302B | apt-key add -
Is it Time to Move to Linux?
Recently I'm installing Linux Ubuntu on a PC and quite impressed with their developments. Linux Ubuntu becoming more and more user friendly for me (although for average PC users will still quite difficult to use Linux).
With my current needs of computing and work which is almost all of it is web based, such as chat with my abroad collegues, checking emails, social networking, blogging, web administration, server administration, etc. I started to feel that the need of Microsoft Windows is less demanding.
Changing /tmp Partition Size on CPanel Server
Today one of my server have its /tmp partition is full and causing problems such as failed MySQL database query or Fantastico stop working because they can't write temporary file. Here is the solution I found on CPanel's forum:
lsof /tmpThen umount /tmp and /var/tmp:
umount -l /tmp umount -l /var/tmp
Then remove the old partition file:
rm -fv /usr/tmpDSK
Then create a new one:
/scripts/securetmp