Month: March 2009

  • Getting started with EC2 tutorial

    I just start playing with EC2 today and these are some useful notes and observation. The small standard instance is quite slow, only scores 50 under Unixbench-WHT. Our quads E5405 are around 410+, Q9550 is at 650-750. I also was confused about S3 versus EBS. The console management makes life much easier, but could be…

  • Brother 5440CN Control Center in Mac OSX

    If you turned off Control Center from starting up at boot, you can find it again in this folder. It took me a while trying to find it under Spotlight, /Applications without luck. /Library/Printers/Brother/Utilities/

  • Adaptec RAID under CentOS

    Download the Storage Manager RPM for your card model and architecture from their site http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/support/raid/ If you run /usr/StorMan/arcconf and get this error: ./arcconf: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Do this export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/StorMan/libstdc++.so.5 root@r StorMan]# ./arcconf | UCLI | Adaptec uniform command line interface…