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Fireworks on Thames 2011

That just unbelievable.

Posted on January 1, 2011 at 11:22 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
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RSS Graffiti

I’ve finally given up trying to setup Facebook’s feature that allows everyone to import an external bog. It just keeps returning a stupid and absolutely unhelpful error message “We couldn’t find a feed using the URL you provided.” I checked the Apache’s logs and it clearly returned 200 error code to the feed request that […]

Posted on January 1, 2011 at 10:08 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Happy new 2011

This was undoubtedly the best NY night I’ve ever had and truly believe that everyone has enjoyed it as much as I did. Hope this elicit mood and vivid night would sustainably prevail and would walk us through out the upcoming year. Enjoy and have smile-full fun!

Posted on January 1, 2011 at 12:21 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Two days of outage

Recently I had an unpleasant experience when I found my small blog unavailable whilst a day before it was up and running at full speed. Thankfully, the support team that stands behind my VPS box recovered the system from their backup quite rapidly putting it back on stage. The data were intact so there was […]

Posted on December 22, 2010 at 6:12 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
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An error during APA creation

If you see an error message like this “unplumb operation for lan was unsuccessful” when creating APA interface double check that all members of APA configuration are down and none of them has an IP address assigned.

Posted on December 21, 2010 at 6:00 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Khor Virap – Noravank – Tatev

That was one on those rare days filled to the brims both with the breathtaking views and the spectacular historical places. We covered 500 km. and it took us a whole day to get to Tatev from Yerevan. Here are just a few photos I’d like to share. Now I’ve got a clear understanding of […]

Posted on December 18, 2010 at 3:40 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Expanding SB40c with hpacucli

One of the tasks that we had to deal with during the last trip was to expand SB40c blade storage by replacing 4x146GB SAS disks with 6x30GB SAS disks. Preferably, this operation should be done online causing our client a zero downtime. Since these 4x146GB had been configured into RAID10 the initial idea was quite […]

Posted on December 18, 2010 at 12:39 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Armenia. Garni – Gehdard

Today, as a worm up for tomorrows journey to Tatev, we had a quick trip to Garni. It’s such a beautiful place and I have a few photos to give you a taste of what it’s like:

Posted on December 11, 2010 at 10:27 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Yerevan. Armenia.

Yes, I’m in Yerevan and will spend at last the next two weeks here doing random SA’s stuff from installing HP-UX and HP hardware to migrating Veritas Cluster to a new node and configuring space-ptimized snapshots.

Posted on December 6, 2010 at 9:34 am by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Recovering data from iPhone backup

Here is a story about how to recover the data from old iPhone’s backups. As you know iTunes stores iPhone backups in your home directory or more precisely in ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup. The problem is that it’s not very convenient to mess with restoring iPhone and as a result to end up with your current data […]

Posted on November 26, 2010 at 10:29 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
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