Weblog for Asbjorn Riedel

Thanks to an article on mashable.com and the service offered by intersquash.com my blog is now also easily accessible from the iPhone

Not that I expect many to read by blog there.

The article from mashable is here.

Over the last 6 months I have had the privilege to work as intern on the Immediate Edge.

A very interesting experience. As with all projects there are positive parts and negative parts.

Right now it is however in the middle of the positive parts. Testing of the newest Market Samurai.

Just for this tool alone I would become a paid subscriber of the Immediate Edge.

Having tested the Market Samurai over the last month
I URGE you NOT to buy it.

Why?

Because it is so bl**dy powerful that I would rather that
NOBODY else got their hand on it.

Keyword research is a time consuming business, you can
literally spend days and days trying to find keywords and
phrases. I know because I have done it again and again
only to find, in the end that they did bring loads of traffic
but nobody wanted to buy.

Market Samurai can do the same work, from start to end
in less than 30 minutes. And with the added bonus of
identifying the phrases and keywords that actually convert.

Less than 30 minutes … It is just so good.

So why should you not buy it? Because I(!) want to have
the unfair advantage the tool gives.

Keywords are directly from Google, with Googles own traffic
estimates! No wild guess. Googles own figures. Each keyword
is then judged for commercial intent. How big is the chance
that somebody writing the keyword will actually buy something.
Priceless!

Well, I guess with millions of words and phrases there is room
for everybody. So if you cannot contain yourself, then go ahead
and get the Market Samurai.

It will do keyword research faster and more precise than any
other tool on the Internet.

Asbjorn

In the end I decided to stay up for the show.

The chat before the show was hectic, many people were online.

Then …

My Mac just stopped! No responses. So in the end I rebooted and started again with only one browser window open.

And the show started. I could see 673 people online, but the chat had gone. Ustream was not coping with the number of people, and the video link was less than perfect.

So I went to bed.

This morning I found the link from the Ustream site

so now I just have to find time to watch it.

Update: well it seems it isn’t ready yet anyway.
And it seems that more people had problems with the site yesterday.

With only 3 hours to the pre-season start of the Thirty Day Challenge, it is maybe worth having a look at what the Thirty Day Challenge really is.

The first challenge started in 2005.

Ed Dale had just sold over 30 small websites for several millions of dollars (really!) and wanted to 1) give something back 2) have something to do

I came across the challenge when I heard it mentioned on a podcast with Frank Kern and the NitroMarketing team, and I decided to join, since the cost was exactly zero Dollar!!!

The target was to make $1 in 30 days …

What a target !

Anybody could do that, or maybe not?

I had already made money on the Internet selling ebooks others had written.

There was only one problem. It had cost me more in advertising cost than I earned.

So I was ready for the challenge (on a side note, the reat of the family had gone to Russia)

Ok, so while this year’s challenge have not started yet and the pre-season is only starting now, I’ll follow along, and tell what happened on the first 30 Day challenge over the next 30 days.

Stay tuned

Asbjorn

PS. You can see the kickof (I will be sleeping) here

How to install Squid on FC 4.0

log in on box

become root

get the squid package

yum install squid.i386

Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
–> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
—> Downloading header for squid to pack into transaction set.
squid-2.5.STABLE13-1.FC4. 100% |=========================| 164 kB 00:00
—> Package squid.i386 7:2.5.STABLE13-1.FC4 set to be updated
–> Running transaction check

Dependencies Resolved

==========================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
==========================================================
Installing:
squid i386 7:2.5.STABLE13-1.FC4 updates-released 1.2 M

Transaction Summary
==========================================================
Install 1 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)
Total download size: 1.2 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/1): squid-2.5.STABLE13 100% |===========| 1.2 MB 00:01
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Installing: squid ########## [1/1]

Installed: squid.i386 7:2.5.STABLE13-1.FC4
Complete!

vi /etc/squid/squid.conf

http_port 127.0.0.1:3128

Configure firefox. Set the proxy to 127.0.0.1 + set the port to 3128

Configure putty

set up a tunnel which will be setup when connecting with ssh to the server

How To Configure Hardware Mirroring on Sun T2000

You need a boot server or boot of a CDrom

boot net -s

After the client has booted, run the following command:

bash; export NOINUSE_CHECK=1

Run the following command to create the RAID volumes:

raidctl -c c0t0d0 c0t1d0

Answer “yes” to the prompt.

Wait for the disks to complete syncing. To verify success, the raidctl command with no options should return the following:

# raidctl
RAID Volume RAID RAID Disk
Volume Type Status Disk Status
——————————————————
c0t0d0 IM OK c0t0d0 OK
c0t1d0 OK

Using the format utility, select the volume, define the type as ⮮Auto configure⮝, and label the volume as follows:

# format
Searching for disks…done

AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c0t0d0
/pci@780/pci@0/pci@9/scsi@0/sd@0,0
Specify disk (enter its number): 0
selecting c0t0d0
[disk formatted]

FORMAT MENU:
disk - select a disk
type - select (define) a disk type
partition - select (define) a partition table
current - describe the current disk
format - format and analyze the disk
repair - repair a defective sector
label - write label to the disk
analyze - surface analysis
defect - defect list management
backup - search for backup labels
verify - read and display labels
save - save new disk/partition definitions
inquiry - show vendor, product and revision
volname - set 8-character volume name
! - execute , then return
quit
format> type

AVAILABLE DRIVE TYPES:
0. Auto configure
1. Quantum ProDrive 80S
2. Quantum ProDrive 105S
3. CDC Wren IV 94171-344
4. SUN0104
5. SUN0207
6. SUN0327
7. SUN0340
8. SUN0424
9. SUN0535
10. SUN0669
11. SUN1.0G
12. SUN1.05
13. SUN1.3G
14. SUN2.1G
15. SUN2.9G
16. Zip 100
17. Zip 250
18. Peerless 10GB
19. SUN72G
20. other
Specify disk type (enter its number)[19]: 0
c0t0d0: configured with capacity of 68.00GB

selecting c0t0d0
[disk formatted]
format> label
Ready to label disk, continue? y

format> quit
#

Now build the server

Procedure as below for reseting the T2000 ALOM password due to no scadm command available for the sun4v architecture in Solaris 10.

Recovering T2000 ALOM Passwords

For security reasons, this procedure is available only while accessing the system
directly through the serial port. The procedure resets all ALOM NVRAM settings.

To Recover Your ALOM Passwords:
1. Connect to the ALOM serial port.

2. Power down the Sun Fire T2000 Server.

Remove the power cords from both power supplies. Wait several seconds for power
to discharge before reinserting the cords.

3. Press the Escape key during ALOM boot when the following text is displayed on
the console:

Boot Sector FLASH CRC Test
Boot Sector FLASH CRC Test, PASSED.

Return to Boot Monitor for Handshake
After pressing the Escape key, the ALOM boot escape menu is printed:
ALOM Menu

e - Erase ALOM NVRAM.
m - Run POST Menu.
R - Reset ALOM.
r - Return to bootmon.
Your selection:

4. Enter e to erase the ALOM NVRAM.

Your selection: e
ALOM NVRAM erased.

ALOM Menu

e - Erase ALOM NVRAM.
m - Run POST Menu.
R - Reset ALOM.
r - Return to bootmon.
Your selection:
5. Enter r to return to the ALOM boot process.
Your selection: r

ALOM POST 1.0
Status = 00007fff

ALOM then boots and resets all NVRAM settings. You are automatically logged on
as user admin with no password and no permissions. All ALOM NVRAM settings
are reset to the factory defaults.

BTW: Make sure place the following lines in your /etc/system file for Solaris 10 which is for mandatory T2000 support.

* Begin tuning recommended for T2000
*
set pcie:pcie_aer_ce_mask=0×1
*
set autoup=900
set tune_t_fsflushr=1
set rlim_fd_max=260000
set rlim_fd_cur=260000
set sq_max_size=100
set ipge:ipge_tx_ring_size=2048
set ipge:ipge_srv_fifo_depth=16000
set ipge:ipge_reclaim_pending=32
set ipge:ipge_bcopy_thresh=512
set ipge:ipge_dvma_thresh=1
set ip:ip_squeue_fanout=1
set ipge:ipge_tx_syncq=1
*
set segkmem_lpsize=0×400000
* End tuning recommended for T2000