Go OpenVZ or Go Xen for VPS?

Paravirtualization-capable hypervisors include  Xen, Virtuozzo, Vserver, and OpenVZ (which is the open source and development version of Parallels Virtuozzo Containers), but the most common types used are OpenVZ and Xen.  If you are a first time VPS user, you might want to know which one to go for: OpenVZ or Xen? OpenVZ is an operating [...]

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How to Set Up LNMP on Debian, Ubuntu or CentOS

As I announced that Rockia.com has been moved to Linode VPS, I received numerous emails asking how they can do that.  My answer is that if you are professional in Linux, you can just follow the tutorials in Linode Library; I strongly believe that there are more tutorials than you actually need to set up [...]

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How-to: Set Up Parked Domain on Netfirms for Google Adsense

A friend of mine asked me if he could use Google Adsense without purchasing a hosting plan; the answer was obviously “yes” because Google has prepared Adsense for parked domains. In this post, general domain registration with Netfirms and Google Adsense are not taking into consideration; I am writing because Netfirms is not one of [...]

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How to Set Up Telus.net Email Account in Office 2007

Over the last weekend, I received a job to set up an email account for a customer who purchased a desktop from the store I am working at. His email account was provided by telus; I initially thought it was going to be fairly easy to set up because while I googled online, I found [...]

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How to get unlocked iPhone legally from Carriers

Most of the iPhones are manufacture-locked; that means you will have to stick with whatever telecommunication carrier you were with in order to use your iPhone. Rockia lives in Canada where Fido and Rogers were the first two companies that carried iPhones.  Personally, I have been with Fido for a long time. When I got [...]

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LEGO Photo — Legoized your photo on iPhone

I am not sure how much you love LEGO, but if you are interested in LEGO creation but not too familiar with how those cubic pieces work, or you are a new LEGO fan who would like to start with something light first, then you should try this free application on iPhone/iPod Touch and later [...]

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Have you got your .co domain yet?

On July 20th, .CO domain was officially launched and Google also approves it as an international domain name. “We will rank .co domains appropriately if the content is globally targeted. Webmasters will soon have the functionality to be able to specify this by using the geotargeting options in Google Webmaster Tools,” said a Google spokesperson, [...]

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SecondBar puts the OS X menu bar on both of Mac’s monitors

SecondBar puts the OS X menu bar on both of Mac’s monitors

Being a programmer, I enjoy using my Mac with dual screen.  I put one vertically for better view of the websites as well as more lines of my program; the other one is set up horizontally for movie and other stuffs. Usually with Macintosh, you can set one monitor to primary monitor while the other [...]

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Phone Disk — Mount Your iPhone as a Disk on Mac

Phone Disk — Mount Your iPhone as a Disk on Mac

Rather saying iPhone is good for multimedia and entertainment, I solely use it as PDA, email and internet browsing device, and of course my phone (duh!).  Right now at the moment of writing this post, my 16GB iPhone 3GS has 186 song, 17 videos and 8290 photos, yet, I still have more than half of [...]

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Sweet Home 3D — Interior Design

Sweet Home 3D — Interior Design

I used Google Sketchup to build simple 3D model before; it’s an awesome software to build a single 3D object with ease and efficiency.  Nonetheless, if you are going to plan your room or even your house ahead before everything is settled, Google Sketchup might not be the hero for you. I am going to [...]

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Visor — Shortcut to Terminal

Visor — Shortcut to Terminal

The utility software I am gonna introduce today is a bit special because it provides only one single function; that’s to help you open Terminal faster. You might want to ask, with the Exposé built in Mac along with shortcut keys “Command + Tab“, we can switch between applications very easily, why do we want [...]

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New me.com interface

New me.com interface

Alone with the release of WordPress 3.0, even though there is absolutely no relations in between, Apple also pushed out the new MobileMe web interface. I would like to share more about the update of this online service with you all, however, for the past 20 minutes, I am not able to login to my [...]

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