Skype can now be used as a SIP gateway, enabling integration with legacy phones and PBX.

A new business product, Skype Connect is a regular SIP gateway, albeit one that is connected to the Skype network. For 4.95 a line/month professional users and enterprises can receive calls from Skype users on regular phones (connected to a SIP VoIP router or software/hardware SIP PBX), receive calls from Skype landline numbers (“Skype-In numbers”) and route their outgoing calls at cheap Skype rates.

For more information, visit Skype Connect.

Use the --size-only flag to avoid downloading remote files for checksum generation.

Navigating the plethora of Microsoft’s online solutions can be confusing. Here’s a high-level overview to help you choose.

Document-centric services

Office Live Workspace

Microsoft’s first try at online editing of documents, Office Live Workspace was free for all kinds of users. The service has been discontinued in January 2011 and was replaced with “Office Web Apps on SkyDrive”.

Office Web Apps on SkyDrive

Targeted towards home users and students, this free solution allows users to view and edit documents through most web browsers, share them and collaborate on Office documents with others.

Documents from SkyDrive can easily be opened in the full versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint, if the user has them installed, but purchasing these applications is not required to use Office Web Apps on SkyDrive.

Go to Office Web Apps on SkyDrive

docs.com

Like Office Web Apps on SkyDrive, docs.com lets home users create and share Office documents for free and through a web browser. The main difference is a deep integration of docs.com with Facebook, making docs.com a more attractive solution for social collaboration with Facebook friends, classmates and coworkers.

Go to docs.com

Office Web Apps on-premises

Business users who purchase Office 2010 through volume licensing can run Office Web Apps for their users on own servers by installing SharePoint 2010.

Learn more about deploying Office Web Apps

E-mail centric services

Windows Live Hotmail

One of the world’s most popular e-mail services for personal use, Hotmail gives users a huge inbox accessible through most web browsers and the choice of an address under one of hotmail.com or several other domains.

Go to Windows Live Hotmail

Windows Live for your domain

A free solution for groups which includes Hotmail with a group-owned domain. Targeted towards personal users such as football clubs.

Sign up for Windows Live for your domain at the Windows Live Admin Center

Office Live Small Business

This solution for small businesses includes Microsoft-hosted e-mail under a business-owned domain, website hosting and online document storage (though apparently no editing), all for free. Additional storage space can be purchased for a small fee.

Office Live Small Business is still available, but will be replaced with Office 365 for small businesses after October 2011.

Read more about Office Live Small Business

Microsoft Online Services

Microsoft Online Services is a professional line of hosted services sold directly by Microsoft and targeted towards businesses of any size. Offerings include mix-and-match services such as hosted Exchange, SharePoint, Office Live Meeting, Dynamics CRM, Windows InTune and more, priced per service, user and month.

Read more about Microsoft Online Services

Office 365

Currently in beta, Office 365 seems to be meant to replace the functionality currently offered through Office Live Small Business and Microsoft Online Services. It is going to offer hosted Exchange, SharePoint and Lync services together with licenses to run Office Professional Plus on customer workstations at different service levels priced between $2 and $27 per user and month.

Go to Office 365

Here’s how I got a Mercurial server up and running using Windows 2008 and IIS 7:

1. Download ActiveState ActivePython 2.6.6.18. Choose the 32-bit version regardless of the Windows flavor.
2. Install ActivePython using the default installation path of C:\Python26.
3. Download the binary version of PyWin32
4. Install PyWin32 using the default installation path of C:\Python26
5. Download the source code of Mercurial
6. Extract Mercurial to C:\Mercurial_src
7. Open a cmd window and change directory to the above folder:
   C:
cd \Mercurial_src
8. Run the following commands:
   python setup.py --pure build_py -c -d . build_ext -i build_mo --force
python setup.py --pure install --force

9. Download isapi-wsgi
10. Install isapi-wsgi using the default installation path of C:\Python26
11. Create a folder for a new website somewhere:
    C:\
mkdir \inetpub\hg.mydomain.com
12. Copy C:\Mercurial_src\contrib\win32\hgwebdir_wsgi.py to the new website’s root folder:
    cp  C:\Mercurial_src\contrib\win32\hgwebdir_wsgi.py C:\inetpub\hg.mydomain.com\
13. Open hgwebdir_wsgi.py in a text editor, and configure the following settings:
    hgweb_config = r'C:\inetpub\hg.mydomain.com\hgweb.config'
path_prefix = 0
14. Create a folder for the repositories somewhere:
    C:
mkdir \Repositories
15. Create C:\inetpub\hg.mydomain.com\hgweb.config with this content:
    [paths]
/ = C:\Repositories\*
16. Execute python hgwebdir_wsgi.py which will generate a DLL shim called _hgwebdir_wsgi.dll:
    C:
cd \inetpub\hg.mydomain.com
python  hgwebdir_wsgi.py
17. Start IIS Manager:
    inetmgr
18. Create an application pool; set its .NET version to “No Managed code” and enable 32-bit apps under “Advanced Settings”
19. Create a website with the root folder C:\inetpub\hg.mydomain.com and set its application pool to the newly created application pool
20. Double-click “Handler Mappings”
21. Click “Add Wildcard Script Map”
22. As Executable choose the dll file in C:\inetpub\hg.mydomain.com (it was created when you ran hgwebdir_wsgi.py previously)
23. As name enter “Mercurial-ISAPI” (it doesn’t matter really)
24. Click “OK” and “Yes” to allow this ISAPI extension
25. Browse to your new website in a browser and you should now be greeted by Mercurial
26. Create a repository in your repositories path:
    C:
cd \Repositories
hg init testrepo
27. Browse to your new website again and the repository “testrepo” should now be displayed
28. Don’t forget to set up authentication in IIS Manager to only allow authorized developers to access the repositories.
29. Restart IIS:
    iisreset

When trying to restore a backup taken using Jungle Disk Server Edition on a workstation running Jungle Disk Desktop Edition I received the following error message:

Could not download and open the backup vault database

Error Details (Jungle Disk Desktop 3.12 Win64)
------------------------
xOverwriteFailed - Failed to rename backup database to final name (file in use?): C:\ProgramData\JungleDisk\cache\cfjd2-us-mmdb\XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX-backup.db
Exception Code: xOverwriteFailed (144)
Time: 20-01-2011 21:09:03 (GMT+1)
Detailed Message: Failed to rename backup database to final name (file in use?): C:\ProgramData\JungleDisk\cache\cfjd2-us-mmdb\XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX-backup.db
Error Location: BlockBackupManager.cpp:1062 BlockBackupManager::ExecuteDownloadAndOpenDatabase
via BlockBackupManager.cpp:1098 BlockBackupManager::ExecuteDownloadAndOpenDatabase

To solve this problem I had to follow these steps:

1. Stop the Jungle Disk service on the restore machine
2. Rename/delete the “cache” folder from C:\ProgramData\JungleDisk
3. Start the Jungle Disk service
4. Click “Restore files” in the vault’s menu in Jungle Disk monitor
5. The vault database is downloaded – twice. During the second download, click “Cancel”.
6. Click “Restore files” again.

I had a few problems installing Jungle Disk Desktop Edition on Ubuntu Linux 10.10, probably all related to the fact that my device ran a stripped-down installation of the operating system without X libraries. Here’s what I had to do to get it running:

1. Find the right download for this operating-system on https://www.jungledisk.com/downloads/personal/desktop/linux/:
   wget http://downloads.jungledisk.com/jungledisk/junglediskdesktop_312-0_amd64.deb
2. Install the package:
   sudo dpkg -i junglediskdesktop_312-0_amd64.deb
3. Install missing libraries:
   sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-0 libxxf86vm1 libsm6 libnotify1
4. Now running the software succeeded:
   junglediskdesktop

The Asrock ION 330 HT makes a nice little HTPC, but installing XBMC on it can be daunting for Linux newbies. Here’s how I managed to get most everything working.

This guide is for the second edition of the Asrock ION 330HT, the one that includes WLAN and a remote control (and an integrated infra-red receiver). It’s mostly these new components that can pose problems. While Windows generally has better driver support for new hardware, I am using Linux because the Windows version of XBMC doesn’t have good hardware acceleration yet – which means HD movies would play sloppy, if at all.

1. Start by installing Ubuntu 9.10 from a USB stick or CD. There is an abundance of tutorials that describe this step, so I won’t go into further details except recommending to choose “Automatic log-on” during the setup so you won’t have to type a password every time you boot the device.
2. Upon restarting, connect to your network. After entering the WLAN key Ubuntu will ask for a password to protect the key. Do not enter anything or you will have to enter this password upon each reboot. Confirm that you want to use “Unsafe storage”.
3. To get the infra-red receiver working, install these:
   sudo aptitude install lirc lirc-modules-source
wget http://europe.asrock.com/downloadsite/drivers/Nettop/Ubuntu/IR(9.10).zip
unzip IR(9.10).zip
sudo dpkg -i lirc-nct677x-1.0.4-ubuntu9.10.deb lirc-nct677x-src-1.0.4-ubuntu9.10.deb
4. The infra-red receiver should now be working, however when we later update the kernel it will stop working. To avoid this, enter the following commands:
   sudo dkms add -m lirc-nct677x-src -v 1.0.4-ubuntu9.10
sudo dkms build add -m lirc-nct677x-src -v 1.0.4-ubuntu9.10
sudo dkms install add -m lirc-nct677x-src -v 1.0.4-ubuntu9.10
sudo reboot
   This will allow the system to automatically recompile the infra-red receiver driver when the kernel gets updated.
5. After the system has rebooted, lets update all other software to the newest versions:
   sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude upgrade
sudo reboot
6. After the system reboots, you can now install xmbc like this:
   sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install xbmc xbmc-standalone
sudo aptitude install xbmc-eventclients-*
sudo aptitude install xbmc-scripts-*
7. Install PolicyKit to allow power management:
   sudo aptitude install policykit policykit-gnome
   In the following commands, replace “xbmc” with your username:
   sudo polkit-auth --user xbmc --grant org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.suspend
sudo polkit-auth --user xbmc --grant org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.hibernate
sudo polkit-auth --user xbmc --grant org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.reboot
sudo polkit-auth --user xbmc --grant org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.shutdown
sudo polkit-auth --user xbmc --grant org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.reboot-multiple-sessions
sudo polkit-auth --user xbmc --grant org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.shutdown-multiple-sessions
sudo apt-get install policykit-1 devicekit-power
sudo nano /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/custom-actions.pkla
   This has opened a new file in the editor, paste the following lines in there and replace every occurence of “xbmc” with your username:
   [Actions for xbmc user]
Identity=unix-user:xbmc
Action=org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.*;org.freed esktop.devicekit.power.*;org.freedesktop.consoleki t.system.*;org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable;org.freedesktop.hal.device.volume
ResultActive=yes
ResultAny=auth_admin
ResultInactive=yes
   Finally save the file using Ctrl+X, press Y and Enter.
8. Now install the Nvidia driver to get hardware acceleration – a must for playing back mostly anything:
   sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
   The file has been opened in the editor, scroll to the bottom of it and paste this line:
   deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/nvidia-vdpau/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
   Finally save the file using Ctrl+X, press Y and Enter. Then run these commands:
   sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com CEC06767
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install nvidia-190-modaliases nvidia-glx-190
sudo nvidia-xconfig -s --no-logo --force-generate
sudo reboot
   After the system reboots, the Nvidia driver should be active.
9. In order to avoid sound problems, unmute all outputs like this:
   alsamixer
   In this application, use the left and right arrow keys to navigate between the columns. When the box above the cursor displays MM it means this output is currently muted; if so unmute it by pressing M on the keyboard. Repeat for all muted columns until you don’t see any more boxes with the text MM on the screen. Then press Escape to exit the program. Finally save the settings with this command:
   alsactl store 0
   Now, go to “System” > “Preferences” > and click “Sound Preferences”. Click on the “Hardware” tab and under “Profile” choose: “Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output + Analog Stereo Input”. Apply and close the “Sound Preferences”.
10. Audio, video and IR are now working fine, but the wireless connection is still unstable and freezes often. To fix this enter:
    sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-karmic
    The above command might give some errors about modules not being built. To fix this:
    sudo apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.31-22-generic
    Now the IR and video driver should have been compiled for the new kernel, and we can continue to install the updated WLAN drivers:
    sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-wireless-karmic-generic
sudo apt-get install wireless-tools
sudo apt-get install wicd
sudo reboot
11. After the system reboots there will be a new network management widget in the menu. Go to the Options in that widget, click “Preferences” next to your wireless network, and enter and save the network key again.

After the above steps the following works stable for me: Video (hardware acceleration), the WLAN connection and the remote control. There is still a slight problem with audio, whenever I play a movie that contains AC3 or DTS sound I have to press the “Windows” button on the remote (to get to the movie menu) and navigate to the sound icon, then press OK on “Output Stereo signal to all speakers”. Only then am I able to output AC3 or DTS to the receiver over HDMI. It’s a minor nuisance but if anyone knows how to fix this please leave a comment. Thanks for reading!

General setup:

1. Set up WordPress as usual
2. Follow http://wptheming.com/2010/03/wordpress-3-0-enable-network/ to enable multi-site; use sub-directory config
3. Change wp-config.php and .htaccess as described in the admin
4. Follow http://ottopress.com/2010/wordpress-3-0-multisite-domain-mapping-tutorial/ to enable domain mapping

For each site:

1. Log in to the control panel
2. Upgrade site to 3.0 by copying files over and reloading the control panel
3. Add the site on the WPMU installation
4. Map the domains
5. Add domain to hosts file
6. Export database to a file
7. Edit the file, remove wp_options, wp_usermeta and wp_users tables from dump
8. Rename prefixes from wp_ to wp_X_ where X is the blog id
9. Import SQL into new database
10. UPDATE wp_{ID}_posts SET post_author = 1
11. Switch theme
12. Move uploads and change post image path
13. Reenable plugins
14. Reenable widgets
15. Restore options
16. Check no broken Media

Especially in case of Thesis 1.7:

For Thesis, also see http://www.clausconrad.com/blog/thesis-customizations-i-like to fix thumbs and post images.

http://www.binaryturf.com/using-thesis-theme-with-a-wordpress-multisite-installation/

http://www.kristarella.com/2009/09/using-thesis-with-wpmu/

1. Restore Thesis options
2. Copy rotator images (if used)
3. Copy custom.css
4. Restore OpenHook
5. chmod 666 custom/blog-name/custom.css
6. chmod 775 custom/blog-name/cache

Thanks to MakeUseOf I discovered Jolicloud, a version of Linux optimized for netbooks.

For the last year or so I had given up on using my Asus Eee 900 for anything more than the occasional recipe surfing in the kitchen, it was simply too slow to open tabs or do any normal computer work. The original Linux wasn’t too slow, but nothing near fabulous either. I tried Ubuntu Netbook Remix, which felt even more unresponsive to me. Some months ago I switched to Windows 7 just to get disappointed once more.

Apart from the slow performance, all of these operating systems suffered from stability problems; for example, Windows 7 would usually come up with a black screen after waking up from suspend mode. Thanks to Jolicloud, this problem is gone and my Eee feels actually usable for the first time. Installation was child’s play and everything, including sound, wifi, stand-by mode and the webcam worked out of the box.

But I think what surprises me most is not the ease of use of Jolicloud, but that it changed my view on Linux in general – I had this connotation that Linux was an OS that could only be either stable, user-friendly or powerful, not all of them at the same time. Unlike most other distributions (versions of Linux) their website is quite sexy, probably inspired from Apple – in a good way. Thanks to the developers for combining the speed of Windows XP with the usability of Ubuntu Netbook Remix!

How to export a mailbox from Exchange 2007 SP1 to a PST file:

1. Prerequisites:
   You will need a machine with a 32-bit version of Windows (Windows 7 is fine) and Outlook 2003 or 2007.
   Join the machine to the domain that contains the Exchange server.
   Log on as a domain administrator.
   Install Exchange Server Management Tools 2007 SP1. To achieve this, insert the Exchange disc, do a custom installation, and only select the Management Tools.
2. Open Exchange Management Shell.
3. Give the current user permissions to the mailbox you want to export:
   Add-MailboxPermission -Identity <EMAIL> -User <DOMAIN\CURRENTUSER> -AccessRights FullAccess
   - where EMAIL is the e-mail address of the mailbox you want to export, and DOMAIN\CURRENTUSER is the name of the user you are logged on with.
4. Export the mailbox to a PST file:
   Export-Mailbox -Identity <EMAIL> -PSTFolderPath <C:\SOME_PATH>
   - where EMAIL is the e-mail address of the mailbox you want to export, and C:\SOME_PATH is some path (doesn’t have to be on C: of course).

Good luck!

I experienced very slow speeds when uploading files to a small (m1.small) Amazon EC2 instance using the SCP and SFTP3 protocols with rsync, WinSCP and Tunnelier BitVise – around 30-40 kB/sec.

By simply switching the SSHd listening port to http (80), speeds went up to 1,4 MB/sec. Why Amazon would throttle the SSH port (22) I don’t know, but I hope this helps somebody else out there.

This is a walkthrough for backing up files to Amazon’s data centers, more specifically to an EC2 instance with an EBS root volume. While it is tailored to a UNIX-like environment (as that’s what I use – Solaris 10, Debian and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard), all tools used in these scripts are also available for Windows environments. Some adaptation of the commands might be required.

I recommend that you are at least slightly familiar with the AWS services before continuing to read this walkthrough.

Choosing an AWS backup method

There are many variations of using Amazon Web Services to back up your data. In the following I will shortly describe the methods I know of and the pros and cons I see with each of them.

Backing up directly to S3

For backing up directly to S3, several tools exist.

• JetS3t synchronize
  Synchronize is part of a larger suite of S3-tools called “JetS3t”. It is a command-line based tool written in Java and so it requires a Java runtime, but otherwise it can be run like any other CLI application and doesn’t require a GUI. Don’t let the simple name fool you – it is one of the better tools for backing up data to S3. Apart from Synchronize, JetS3t also contains a GUI to manage files on S3 called “Cockpit” and a SDK for Java developers to integrate S3 into their software. I have used Synchronize on several servers and continue to use it. One problem I experienced several times with this tool was its huge memory consumption when backing up large numbers of files. My server with the largest number of files currently needs to back up over 700,000 files and even though I increased the memory for Java to 2 GB it still ran out of RAM. This might not be due to Synchronize or JetS3t itself, but made me look for other solutions for this server, such as the one presented below. However I still consider Synchronize to be very well-written and user-friendly, and if the number of files you need to back up is small (like in “below 50,000 files”) it is a very reliable application. (Please also consider my general comments about backing up directly to S3 below though.)
• s3sync.rb
  Another popular solution I tried, s3sync.rb is a Ruby-based script that works kind-of like rsync. Unlike JetS3t it had no problems backing up my collection of 700,000 small files. However, it created an enourmous number of requests to S3, resulting in a huge bill from Amazon, so I don’t use it anymore. Apart from that it worked well though. (Please also consider my general comments about backing up directly to S3 below.)
• JungleDisk
  I am reluctant to include this here because I haven’t had a chance to try it, but JungleDisk appears to be a popular solution for backing up data to S3 and it looks pretty good on paper. I didn’t use it because it seems to require a GUI.

A general problem with backing up to S3, not caused by any of the above-mentioned tools, is that S3 requires you to copy whole files. So if you have a 500 MB file where only 1 byte changed, the whole 500 MB have to be uploaded each time, and you will be charged current S3 incoming transfer fees for that. This reason alone made me disregard all S3-based solutions for larger/more frequent backups.

Using EC2 local storage

You could use the (currently 160 GB) local storage of EC2 instances for backups. However, if the instance is shutdown for any reason, all data is lost. Even if you don’t shutdown the instance ever, the host could lose its power or the host’s hard drive could crash, resulting in a total data loss.

This problem can be overcome by snapshotting the local instance storage to S3 in frequent intervals. I just found this solution to be too complex and expensive for my purposes.

Using an EC2 attached EBS volume

It is possible to use an EC2 instance and attach a EBS volume to it. Even though the EC2 instance is shut down or crashes, the EBS volume will be preserved, and even though the EBS host should crash, its data is backed up automatically. While S3 data is backed up about several data centers, EBS data is only being backed up in the same data center. So the safety level of data on attached EBS volumes can be considered to lie somewhere between instance-local storage and S3.

For increased security, EBS volumes can be snapshotted to S3 as often and with as many concurrent copies as desired.

This is certainly a viable backup solution. Depending on how important your data is, you might want to take S3 snapshots in addition to your EBS backups. While I tried it, I found it too complex to administer and also kind-of expensive.

Using an EC2 root EBS volume

For increased security, EBS volumes can be snapshotted to S3 as often and with as many concurrent copies as desired.

My guide

Based on the determined importance of my data, the fact that this is a second site (in addition to on-site backup) and budgetary constraints, I chose to use an EBS volume as an EC2 instance root without snapshotting the volume to S3. This is the method I am going to describe in detail in the rest of this walkthrough. Before cloning this process I invite you to study the AWS documentation to determine its fitness for your purposes.

Signing up for Amazon AWS

If you don’t have an AWS account yet, sign up here using your Amazon login (or create one using the same link, if you aren’t an Amazon customer yet). Even if you’ve already ordered books and stuff from Amazon, signup for AWS services is separate from that. However, the only AWS service you need for this guide is EC2.

Choosing an AWS region

Amazon AWS currently has server farms in three regions: US-West (Northern California), US-East (Virginia) and EU-West (Ireland). Usually, you want to use the one closest to the location of your servers. Depending on the type of data you want to back up, you might even have a legal obligation not to move it outside of your own country or region. In my case this means I have to use the EU-West region.

Choosing an AMI

TBD

Preparing your environment (installation)

TBD

Downloading your cert and private key

TBD

Creating an EC2 key pair

TBD

Other tools

Download and unpack the Amazon EC2 API tools.

Set the following environment variables:

EC2_HOME=/path/to/ec2-api-tools
JAVA_HOME=/path/to/java
PATH=/path/to/ec2-api-tools/bin:$PATH

Download and install the latest version of boto.

Configure your region in ~/.boto

Setting up the instance

TBD

I want to clarify this part further, but as a short note, in the following command you will most likely want to change:

• The number 100 in the “block-device-mapping” argument is the size of the EBS root volume in GB
• ami-13042f67 is the ID of the AMI you want to use, find it at https://console.aws.amazon.com/

ec2-run-instances --private-key /path/to/private-key.pem --cert /path/to/cert.pem -H --region <regionName> --availability-zone <availibilityZone> --block-device-mapping /dev/sda1=:100:false --instance-initiated-shutdown-behavior stop --key <keyName> ami-13042f67
ssh -i /path/to/keypair-private-key.pem root@<instance public dns name>

Now connected to the instance, resize the root volume to its full size:¹:

sudo resize2fs /dev/sda1

Running a backup

TBD

Starting the instance

conn.start_instances([instance_id])
res = conn.get_all_instances([instance_id])[0]
while not res.instances[0].state == u'running': wait
ip = res.instances[0].public_dns_name

Running rsync

TBD

Putting it all together

TBD

Foot notes

1: Thanks to Alestic

How to display newer files at the bottom of the ls output on Solaris 10:

ls -latr

• l
  Long list with more details
• a
  Include hidden files
• t
  Sort by date descending
• r
  Reverse sort order

After registering your Solaris system you might want to install updates from the command line. Here’s how to do this in one to three easy steps.

1. Check for available updates (optional):

   # smpatch analyze

2. Download and install the updates:

   # smpatch update

3. If the system requires a reboot, do this as soon as possible by running:

   # init 6

A short step-by-step guide on how to register your Solaris server from the command line in order to be eligible for security patches (this doesn’t require a service subscription).

1. Copy /usr/lib/breg/data/RegistrationProfile.properties somewhere:

   # cp /usr/lib/breg/data/RegistrationProfile.properties /tmp
# chmod 600 /tmp/RegistrationProfile.properties

2. Edit the copy of RegistrationProfile.properties:

   # vi /tmp/RegistrationProfile.properties

   Enter your Sun username and password at the end of the appropriate lines. If applicable, enter your subscription key and proxy settings (optional). If you don’t have one, register a Sun account here.

3. Register your system online using the newly edited file:

   # sconadm register -a -r /tmp/RegistrationProfile.properties
sconadm is running
Authenticating user ...
finish registration!