When someone at a conference discovered that I was the original author for the utility “top” the reaction is always the same: “hey that’s a really cool program”, “thanks for writing it”, or “top really saved the day”. I am glad that in my own little way I was able to contribute to the system…
Register for the website! http://www.austinsug.org/Members.html If you want to be part of the leadership board, contact Jeff. Jeff.blanchard at sun.com. Thanks to Sigma Solutions for providing the food and drink. Next meeting: August 15, 2007. Solaris 10 Dtrace by Jarod Jenson, chief architect at Aeysis. Jarod is the resource Sun brings into companies who need…
No, I’m not talking about using the wit of Walt Whitman or the eccentricities of Emily Dickinson for choosing technology. Nor am I talking about some new program that automates decision making for you. I’m talking about what I see as being the five main dimensions of technology decision making. I am asked repeatedly by…
Things one must remember when dealing with Dell firmware updates…
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Solved — The box didn’t retain my permissiable SELinux environment after a yum update. With a ‘sudo setsebool -P samba_enable_home_dirs=1’ there was a mighty noise and it started allowing public read-only access to the share. Someone liked my work (that they help me do) so well, that recently they requested I share the file with…
While taking part in a storage install the last few days, including creating and deleting quite a few RAID groups and so forth, I’ve had to click on quite a few “Are you SURE?!” dialog boxes, even for completely idle, never-used LUNs. Here’s an idea for storage management folks: keep a bitmap of recently-accessed LUNs….
I’ve been busy lately, so I’ve been catching up on my RSS feeds in Google Reader on Saturday mornings while having coffee. This morning I read a post from 37signals that, among other things, mentioned keeping your email INBOX as empty as possible. I’ve seen lots of other people mention this and I can’t understand why this is such a big deal. I guess it’s a personal preference. A “less is more” stance to email management.
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A while back I decided [Learning to Code|:node/1192] in Ruby would be a good idea and it was suggested that I blog about the process. I got off to a good start, I made my declaration and I posted my first blog entry. I then found some online resources for learning ruby (I must say,…
On the subject of tools and hints; I’ve been using tools like Faq-O-Matic on the job for years, to attempt to capture all those little things that you can never quite remember. Lately, again at work, I put together a large TWiki based FAQ for users and administrators. I used TWiki simply because it was…
My main blog is currently the Solaris Troubleshooting Blog. I will probably continue post my maunderings there and at my Solaris Troubleshooting web site. –Scott