I am heading to LISA ’08 tomorrow afternoon and will be attending the follow tech sessions. Wed: Morning: Keynote Morning: Programming the Virtual Infrastructure Afternoon: MySQL: Guru Talk Afternoon: Spine: Automating Systems Configuration and Management (maybe Hallway track 🙂 Thurs: Morning: Plenary Session Morning: VMware: Guru Talk Afternoon: Time Management: Guru Talk w/ Tom A….
Roger Kelley from Xiotech presented to UUASC last week on Xiotech’s next-gen storage technology. The basic ideas are: – Xiotech is a spin-off from Seagate and still maintains an R&D relationship with Seagate – The basic disk storage unit from Xiotech is a unit that holds two sealed-in datapacs, each of which holds 10 drives….
My old MacBook Pro (a two-year-old refurbished 2.16 GHz Core 2 Duo with 2 GB of RAM and 120 GB hard drive) had developed problems with its left fan some weeks ago. It was noisy (like, outboard-motor noisy) and the internal temps were alarmingly hot (often exceeding 200° F). I knew I needed to get it repaired, but I use my laptop as my primary development machine, carting it from home to work, and just couldn’t be without.
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It’s often challenging to find answers for the problems that plague you — and it’s even worse when the folk that you try to ask are frustrated and confused by how you’re trying to ask, or simply ignore you completely! There have been tons of good things written about how to ask questions in a…
Here are my notes how I set up SVN over SSH to an SVN server that had been set up to run SVN as a single user, “svn”. So, we have multiple users on the remote side, all logging in as “svn” on the SVN server side. Authentication is done via a dedicated key-pair, with…
As a sys admin I hear a lot of funny stuff from users and other people that would probably be funny to other system administrators and others who are deep in IT business. So I decided to share the experience with you people here on LOPSA. So Part 1 is: IT Audit It’s funny how…
National Websites: Pre-College NSBE Alumni NSBE International NSBE National Convention Regional Sites: R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 Donate to NSBE $ ID: 70634 Mr. Kenneth Smith Logout View Resume Smith, Mr. Kenneth National Society of Black Engineers View Original File: file588447.htm ID:70634 1130 North Franklin Street Black Data Processing Associates Member Pittsburgh, PA 15233…
This is nifty – you can specify a remote tape drive, root@unix2:/dev/tape Example: unix1# tar -x -v –rsh-comand /usr/bin/ssh -f root@unix2:/dev/tape ./file1 ./file2 ./file3 … unix1#
Systems administrators are magical wizards that know everything and can make computers sing, dance, and do various other parlor tricks. As someone who carries the title, everyone assumes you can do the same. Whether it is a brand new application that no one has ever seen before, a telephone system that has nothing to do…