Got the Atheros 802.11abg NIC working on my new Acer laptop under Solaris X86. I tried to follow the instructions at the “atheros driver”:http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/wireless/ath/ page, but they are a little out of date. The atheros driver has been integrated into OpenSolaris, so only one or two instructions are correct. However, it did put me on the right track.
I’ve been trying to figure out how to make a few things easier on myself recently. First and foremost, I like to be able to keep up on my email wherever I am, at home, at work, or on the road. My home office was specifically built in the basement far away from everyone else,…
At work, every new technology we introduce must go through engineering and financial justification and be approved by a standards governance body. This is to help corral the proliferation of technology choices that we already have throughout the world. My most recent major technology introduction is Solaris Containers for virtualization. Awhile back the Windows team…
Daniel Feenburg at [NBER|http://nber.org] writes a [good review|http://www.nber.org/sys-admin/linux-nas-raid.html] comparing performance, reliability, price, and other aspects of common RAID NAS solutions. Among those covered are [Netapp|http://netapp.com], [DNF|http://dnfstorage.com], [Excel-Meridian|http://www.emdstorage.com/], and Linux white-box with RedHat Linux and [promise|http://www.promise.com] IDE controller. What makes this version somewhat unique is it deals with the problem of secondary unrecoverable bit-errors that were…
Some tips on publishing content Most people don’t know some of the shortcuts you can use to make content publishing easier and more useful. One of the first lessons is using interwiki to provide quick links to reference material. For some tips on using this, see http://lopsa.org/interwiki/6. Also, below the list of input…
I wrote some documentation how to integrate yum, nagios and cfengine to regularly check for updates and notify about it. The article is available here: http://members.financial.com/~cmr/nagios-yum-cfengine.html
Yesterday evening, I was supposed to fly to New Jersey for an all day meeting today. The weather was a little overcast, and there had been a few showers earlier, so I didn’t think there were going to be too many problems. When I fly to NJ, I always take the 7:45 out of Columbus,…
(… or how to shed 25 thousand NFSOPS per second off your filer in 3 easy steps) So, we did a large upgrade of the environment over the weekend. It mostly went ok, despite some dramatic schedule slips. We still fit inside the overall window; it just didn’t end up as short as we wanted…
If you’ve ever run into this error while using Solaris’s lucreate to create an alternate boot environment and trying to exclude some directories: foo# lucreate -m /:/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s3:ufs -x /u01 -x /u02 -x /u03 -n s3 INFORMATION: path </u01/> filter specification ‘-‘ overridden by ‘x’ …and then it copies /u01 to the alternate BE anyway… or…