Catching up on blogs yesterday in the airport, these two posts popped up right after each other in my Google Reader: OpenSolaris: the universal storage platform? http://cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=876 Which just strikes me as… odd.
If you’re like me, you have similarly named directories—src, bin, images, etc.—strewn all over your filesystem. It’s always irked me that the Mac OS X Finder windows display only the basenames in title bars. You can visually see the containing tree by Command-clicking the basename in the title bar (and, under Leopard, View → Show Path Bar), but I’ve wanted to see it at a glance.
Turns out, it’s easily fixed, with the shell command:
$ defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES
Then just restart the Finder (since you’re in a shell anyway, killall -HUP Finder will do nicely, or if you’re more visually-oriented, just option-right-click the Finder icon in the Dock and choose Relaunch.
Found on the irreplaceable macosxhints.com.
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Someone on the sage-members mailing list asked about checking SSL expiration dates. We use the following script to check them via nagios (actually, we use a slightly older version that takes hostname and port instead of URL, but this is the next version we plan to roll out). I thought I’d post it here (with…
CIO magazine says, System Administrators: what they are, why you need them, and what to look for.
Max Spevack blogged today to remind everyone that with Fedora 8 due out early next week, Fedora Core 6 will be EOL in about a month. If you’re running FC6, now is about the time to think about upgrading.
The premise is believable enough. There are still quite a few vendors out there that still distribute BIOS updates as a floppy image. Heck, they even make it ‘easy’ for you.. The program comes in a self-contained executable that has the image inside it. All you have to do is run the thing and put…
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Earlier this week, after the US Courts ruled that Novell owned the copyrights to Unix, Novell spokesman Bruce Lowry — trying to reassure the Linux community about Novell’s good intentions — proclaimed that Novell is “not even in the Unix business any more.”
If they’re not in the business, then that means the copyrights are essentially worthless to them. There are however at least three big players still in the Unix business: Sun, IBM, and HP. There’s several smaller players in the business, but really no one else worth mentioning.
I just sat in on the teleconference with Sun and IBM announcing that IBM will become the first tier one vendor to resell Solaris on X86. Although HP has supported running Solaris on their Proliant line for several years, they have never had a reseller agreement or any kind of cooperative engineering agreement with Sun….