Category Archives: Open Source

How To Grayscale and Image Using GIMP

Alright, here’s one of many tutorial you will find here at SysadmindayPH. This post is all about how to turn your colorful pictures and images into black and white, or grayscale using GIMP …Of course using GIMP! For those who do not know what GIMP is, is short GNU Image Manipulation Program. What’s GNU? It’s … Continue reading

Optimized Open Source Software Stack (Cool Stack) 1.3.1 Final Release

Optimized Open Source Software Stack (Cool Stack) 1.3.1 Final Release… Will be installing Ruby on Rails using Cool Stack… this is the first of sets of post.. Now downloading the packages from Sun.com Optimized Open Source Software Stack (Cool Stack) for the Sun Solaris Operating System(TM). Cool Stack is a collection of some of the … Continue reading

Top equivalent for AIX – Topas, Only Better

Top equivalent for AIX – Topas, Only Better… That’s what I searched when I got a ticket from one of the AIX boxes here complaining about CPU being 99% used up. Of course, you can use vmstat with interval, but for those sysadmin folks who are use to using Top, its still more comfortable using … Continue reading

Searching For Fee Car Classifieds Script

Cars are no longer a luxury nowadays (except if you want to own a Ferrari or something). Cars are now a necessity in today’s standard of living. And let’s face it, with the price of brand new cars and the forever raising price of gasoline, not every one can buy a new set of wheels. … Continue reading

FireFTP | FireFox | Firefox Download | FireFox Tutorial

FireFTP is an FTP program that works within the Firefox Web browser. Well, Firefox is not actually a full-pledge program but a Firefox plugin or addon. The best thing about this ftp client is that it’s FREE! (Just like any other open source applications/software). If you’re not familiar with Firefox, it’s an open source web … Continue reading

Configure Virtual Hosting in Apache Web Server

When we say or mention the word Web Server, the first thing that comes to our mind is Apache, right? (if you don’t then what are you doing here reading this? ) Apache is the most well known open source web server there is! Open source?? Make that the most wildly used webserver on the … Continue reading

Sun Microsystems Owns Mysql AB

Here’s the news that everyone involved in IT should know by now – Sun Microsystems bought Mysql AB! For those who doesn’t know, MySQL AB isĀ  the company behind MySQL, the world’s most popular open source database. From the blog of Sun Microsystems’ CEO, Jonathan Schwartz‘ : We announced big news today – our preliminary … Continue reading

OpenLDAP Installation Using Packages (pkgadd)

I would like to post an update on our previous OpenLDAP source installation, but I encountered an error so, enough with the source thing and let’s install one from packages which is available on Sunfreeware. OpenLDAP is an open source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. These build packages installs in /usr/local/ Requirements and … Continue reading

The getent Command

For the UNIX side of things, we’ll try to feature one command a week that is commonly used in system/user administration on a UNIX box. If anyone wants to contribute more, then we may do one command every two days or ‘Unix Command for the day’. Something like that. For today, it’s all about getent. … Continue reading

VirtualBox Installation

innotek VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. VirtualBox allows an unmodified operating system with all of its installed software to run in a special environment, on top of your existing operating system. Just like VMware Workstation allows one physical machine to run two or more operating systems simultaneously You’ll then be presented … Continue reading