XceptN’s IT Blog

I remember 20 years ago when I just gone into customer IT support business. Many customers could only rely on fax, phone instead of emails where they actually prefer to communicate face-to-face.

As the business was transforming in past years, (more…)

The Fujitsu Lifebook UH572 provides access to clouds and internet in public locations. Two major internet connectivity options are:

1. Public/local Wi-Fi available in the venue
2. 3G/UMTS through SIM card

During one lunch I was at Hayal Kahvesi with friends: (more…)

For the wordpress theme you are using on your blog, you might like to change the background image. Some themes support that directly and some don’t. But you still have a chance. (more…)

If from the /var/log/messages you are receiving network / o2net related errors and some OCFS2 / system functionality is not available or not working properly, generating a ‘tcpdump’ over the network interconnect may help to diagnose the problem for root cause analysis (RCA). (more…)

With traceroute-1.4a12-XX  the -F argument is used to avoid intra-switch fragmentation. From traceroute(8) manpage:

When ‘-F’  is specified the traceroute fails to get connected. Even with localhost: (more…)