This is the second of a four-part series; the first part is here. I officially hate my laptop; I had just typed a nice long blog entry, and the dodgy mouse whatsit decided that I meant “back” instead of “new tab,” so I get to retype it all. Blargh. Anyhow, this afternoon, after a free…
I’ve been asked by Hans to blog my experiences at Phoenix SysAdmin Days, so here’s the first installment. Watch for more as the days go on. I got in last night to warm, sunny Phoenix, a very welcome change from cold, windy Nebraska. Had a few “hydraulic sandwiches” with the other folks from #lopsa —…
So I’ve been working on an internal security review and discovering that the bulk of the issues I run into stem from the fact that the users don’t seem to understand the need for an audit trail. To me, security consists of confidentiality, authenticity, and the auditability. It’s easy to explain the need for the…
I finally discovered why I couldn’t do cpu scaling on my Inspiron 6000. Apparently the default kernel for FC6 is an i586 kernel. It also doesn’t work with acpi-cpufreq. It’s broke. It no-workie. How do you make it work? Why, you install the i686 version of the kernel! Simple you say? Oh sure, you just…
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at the “atheros driver”:http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/wireless/ath/ page, but they are a little out of date.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…