How To Copy Master Boot Record (MBR) Between Hard Disks

March 7th, 2006 The following collection of useful Unix utilities can be obtained for free on Windows platform without requiring to install Cygwin. df - Shows the free space on disk, also it shows: cluster count, cluster size, free clusters.

October 5th, 2008 The best part of Linux (imho) is the ability to replicate not only the operating system or the data but also the boot loader. This allows you to have two identical disks running RAID-1, each of which are independently bootable, should one of them fail.

September 2nd, 2007 Have you tried Master-Master replication (bi-directional slave-master replication) for MySQL? I am finding myself in a position where I need to have this replication to support the load on my blogs and sites. I would very much appreciate if you can share your experience & suggestions with master-master replication of MySQL database.

December 30th, 2008 Windows 7 has this unique feature of creating and manipulating a virtual hard disk drive as if they were real. More importantly, you don't even need to boot in virtual PC environment to do so.

November 16th, 2007 When you try MySQL master-master replication with two (or more) servers you may often find that in the process of configuring the original master to also act as a slave server (start slave), it fails with the following error: mysql> start slave; ERROR 1200 (HY000): The server is not configured as slave; fix in config file or with CHANGE MASTER TO To rectify it locate and delete the master.info file and restart the mysql server. Now try to start slave and it should work.

January 14th, 2009 It happened to me just the other day. Someone deliberately got into my Firefox, cracked my login information from security options and surfed to my password secured websites at glory.

November 18th, 2007 Replicating on two or more MySQL master database servers 1. MySQL Master-Master Replication Fails With ERROR 1200 (HY000) on Master 2.

February 18th, 2007 The basic idea of RAID (Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks) is to combine multiple small, independent disk drives into an array of disk drives which yields performance and recoverability exceeding that of a Single Large Expensive Drive (SLED). Redundancy is also provided (unless RAID 0) which allows easy and often automatic recovery from hard disk crash.

April 6th, 2009 Hard drives used to be one that comes with the computer a decade ago. People wouldn't care about it unless its crashed.

August 12th, 2009 Often we come across a question which is the best way to partition a hard drive on PCs? Well, there could be no specific answer to it, except that it would rely on your requirements of performance reliability and usability. There is no one shot answer to how you should partition hard disks on a computer running Windows operating system.

September 3rd, 2007 SystemRescueCd is a Linux system on a bootable CD-ROM for repairing your system and recovering your data after a crash. It aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the partitions of the hard disk.

March 8th, 2007 I have been evaluating both Xubuntu and Fedora Core along with Cent OS (Open Source version / fork of Red Hat Linux Enterprise Edition). The key value and differences between these releases are: Xubuntu Xubuntu is definitely faster to use in general due to its light-weight Xfce desktop interface.

September 1st, 2007 Working with replication systems is not easy. Learning and testing different kind of MySQL replications and fine-tuning it to your specific needs is a time-consuming endeavor.

March 20th, 2008 Editing boot configuration in Windows Vista is complicated for most users. You have to manually edit the BCEdit file using bcdedit.exe.

December 27th, 2008 I know that Windows runs super slow in some people's machine. And try as hard as you can but you can seldom find a good reason for the slowing up or a remedy to it.