HYPERAXE

I had been a long time BayanTel SkyDSL customer and I must say that it has been the best in terms of uptime and network connection speed for all the time I had been with them, until a few months ago when problems with their internet connection started popping out everyday.

For all those years that I have been with BayanTel, seldom do I had disconnection problems or slow internet speed, but things seems to have gotten worst for them lately. These past few months, I suddenly lose my connection and I had to disconnect and re-connect my router several times a day. It’s worst when it rains hard since I totally lose my connection until the rain stops. There are also a lot of instances wherein my internet speed slows down. Still faster though than a dial-up connection but still a lot slower than our guaranteed speed for our subscription.
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For some reasons, my Linux home server experience frequent hangs or crashes in the past few days. Oftentimes, it would be inaccessible in the morning so I had to press the restart button almost everyday. This morning was the worst experience so far, when I had to reboot it after every 10-15 minutes or so. I was planning to re-install the OS, but got the chance to look at the kernel crash logs first. It was then that I noticed that the logs suggests some problems with the hardware. I suspected that it was probably a faulty video card, so I replaced the video card with an old one from my stock and glad to say, no more reboots until now.

Due to the frequent force restarts I did prior to fixing the crashes due to a faulty hardware, I wanted to make sure that my disks are still ok. You can actually do this using the e2fsck command, but then it’s not recommended or at times won’t work on a mounted disk. Usually, most Linux distros does a disk check after a pre-defined number of reboots, but I just couldn’t wait for this to happen since it usually defaults to around 30 or more before a disk check is triggered upon bootup.

Well, you can actually force a disk check on the next reboot using the following commands:

sudo touch /forcefsck
reboot

You would then see a disk check happening in the boot process. In my case, I was glad that my disks, especially the root partition was still fine and there were no damaged or bad sectors whatsoever. Whew!

I had been using VPS (Virtual Private Servers) for my hosting needs for several years now and been through a lot of providers already. It has been very useful for me, and considering that it provides most of the cool stuffs that a Dedicated Server can offer, it’s significantly a lot cheaper. You can actually get a VPS with 128MB of RAM, and a decent amount of hard disk space for around $10. You can checkout WHT (Web Hosting Talk) for such offers. It’s where I get most of the cool deals I get for my hosting needs. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s a fact, the MacBook Pro is one hot mean machine, literally. It may be one thing that Apple haven’t really worked out, but with such powerful machine it’s not hard to understand that it would have issues on heat generation. It would truly be impossible for you to place your MBP on your lap for long hours, especially when plugged in to a power source without gutting burned. Things would also get worst when you use intensive applications, such as in my case, Java apps or IDE’s and Linux OS under VMWare Fusion.

I also read from some articles that not addressing heat issues with your notebook could affect its lifespan. This made me think things over and I thought that its about time I address this issue rather than have regrets in the end. So I started looking into my options, and researched about each popular products for my needs. I also roamed around computer shops, and found a lot of laptop cooling pads which mostly have USB powered fans.
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