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My tweetsI am writing this from India (GMT + 5.5) and roaming with my Singapore (GMT + 8.0) mobile phone. I noticed something very strange. In all my mobile phones, under “time and date” settings, I usually setup time zone as local time instead of GMT +/- X and Network operator time as auto-update. By this way, I hope to always have the current local time updated automatically. Everything seem to have worked fine until now…
This is part 2 to my earlier post “A Linux crash, burn and recover experience“. I had mentioned in there that I plan to use a Virtual Machine (VM) strategy for easy backup and porting in future. However, the reality forced me to abandon the approach. It could also be that I don’t know the trade secrets 
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I had a chance to beta test the upcoming release of Windows OS, version 7. I didn’t have any expectations for the Windows Vista successor; I have downgraded all my factory-installed Vista systems to Windows XP within 15 minutes … I was pleasantly surprised with what Microsoft had done this time though :O
One of my trustworthy RHEL servers which was up (virtually) for 4+ years and served thousands of users over-the-web recently crashed. As data in the server was critical, we had to undertake a salvage operation before re-install. This post is my experience of recovering the server’s data and also some of the lessons learned and new strategies evolved for configuring future resilient server…