Archive for September, 2009
Snow Leopard and madwimax
If you’re one of the Yota’s frustrated users, me is also included, because of lack support for Snow Leopard, then here is a possible solution, though being currently under development, that could possibly make you a bit happier and fill your soul with hope: Download http://tuntaposx.sourceforge.net/download.xhtml. Download and unzip http://wart.highsecure.ru/madwimax.zip. Uninstall Yota access software/drivers. Plug […]
In: Apple · Tagged with: mac os x, yota
Keynote speech from Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore
If you followed Kernel Conference Australia 2009, also mentioned in my blog here, you’d noticed that not every presentation was available for online visitors and that made me mirthless, since I was so much keen on listening about ZFS and its future, i.e. quota support, dedup, triple raidz, shadow migration, etc. from the creator’s lips. […]
In: Solaris · Tagged with: zfs
Oracle’s Exadata innuendo
During todays conference organized by Brocade and called “Brocade Extraordinary Networks 2009”, I couldn’t leave unnoticed a presentation made by Sun Microsystem’s Senior Systems Architect in CIS region Vitaly Soloviev about recently announced Exadata V2. Though I learnt nothing new, there was one thing that drew my attention so now I couldn’t get it out […]
Two sessions from Java ComunityOne 2009
If you haven’t attended CommunityOne conference then here is a sweat gift from Sun Video blog materialised in “Becoming a ZFS ninja” and “Developing in OpenSolaris: Solaris Device Drivers” presentations driven by Ben Rockwood and Max Bruning respectively. Enjoy.
In: Solaris · Tagged with: zfs
Sun’s SPARC CPU Roadmap
Saw it a couple of days ago but recently this “confidential” information has leaked into public. Now it’s clear that so much anticipated and hyped Rock CPU is out of the game.
Oracle and Sun Live Event
Found an intriguing invitation from Oracle in my inbox which says: You are invited to attend this exclusive live Webcast in which Oracle CEO Larry Ellison will unveil an innovative new product, the world’s first OLTP database machine with Sun FlashFire technology. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn firsthand how the partnership between Oracle and […]
SPARC/Solaris is still afloat
Just as many other out there today I received a very promising poster from Oracle that stately confirms all our expectations and proves that SPARC and Solaris don’t droop.
Do vxinitrd after kernel upgrade
Just a quick reminder. If you have your root disk on a Linux box encapsulated then don’t forget to recreate initrd image after the kernel has been updated. /usr/lib/vxvm/bin/vxinitrd /boot/VxVM_initrd.img ‘uname -r’ Otherwise you’ll end up being welcomed by the following message once you reboot. Kernel panic – not syncing: Attempted to kill init! Have […]
In: Linux, Veritas · Tagged with: Linux, mkinitrd, VxVM
Failed to open PAM security session
If one day you notice that your super-duper script doesn’t work when executed from cron and crond itself is whining about: CRON (username) ERROR: failed to open PAM security session: Success CRON (username) ERROR: cannot set security context Then the most obvious step from here is to take a look at /etc/pam.d/crond and /var/log/secure (if […]
In: Linux · Tagged with: cron, pam
Migrating from RAID0 -> RAID1 with mdadm
Because of a stupid mistake made during a hectic installation of RHEL /var partition was configured as RAID0 instead of RAID1. Thankfully, it could be easily fixed though with a short downtime. Here is how I did it: Stopped all processes that were using /var. In my case they were sendmail and named. Backed up […]