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I thought I would share the steps I took to setup CentOS 5.1 on a Dell PowerEdge 1900 withPerc 5/i and 6/750GB hard drives in a RAID 5 configuration.

1. Setup your RAID arrays:
   • OS VD: Using the Perc 5/i configuration utility, remove all existing arrays (If new from factory), then setup the first virtual disk (VD0) as a RAID 5 using all drives (right all of them), then specify the volume size. In my case, I chose to allocate 120GB (122880 MB). This is where I’m going to install the OS.
   • Data VD: You’ll want to setup a second virtual disk as a RAID 5 with all of the disks selected and allocate the remaining disk to it. When you continue to the OS install, the installer will see SDA (VD 0) and SDB (VD 1) for the partitions.

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Yeah, here we go with the bashing on Digg. But for what its worth, I enjoyed reading the story and correlating to the book of Genesis. Read the whole article here.

Yeah, I upgraded to Outlook 2007 and here is what I got: 0×800CCC80 when attempting to send an email. The solution to the problem is listed below:

Go to Tools > Account Settings > Double click the account > More Settings > Outgoing Server > ‘Log on to incoming mail server before sending mail’.

You’re welcome!

A small portion of the American education system at play.

I suppose this is what I would look like if I were to be animated:

Yeah, I like cats…

I’m already screwed up, so seeing something like this just tears my heart out.

I’ve found God, says man who cracked the genome.

I got a little paranoid with MySQL running in Windows 2003, so I wrote a quick script to make backup script of the databases along with the save date:

@echo off
FOR /F “TOKENS=1* DELIMS= ” %%A IN (’DATE/T’) DO SET CDATE=%%B
FOR /F “TOKENS=1,2 eol=/ DELIMS=/ ” %%A IN (’DATE/T’) DO SET mm=%%B
FOR /F “TOKENS=1,2 DELIMS=/ eol=/” %%A IN (’echo %CDATE%’) DO SET dd=%%B
FOR /F “TOKENS=2,3 DELIMS=/ ” %%A IN (’echo %CDATE%’) DO SET yyyy=%%B
SET date=%mm%%dd%%yyyy%

echo Running MySQL5 Backups
“C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.1\bin\mysqldump” -uroot -p[PASS] -P [PORT] –result-file=”c:\backup\[HOSTNAME].%date%.sql” –all-databases –verbose –add-drop-table -add-locks -f
echo Done!