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 […]

Posted on September 29, 2009 at 2:07 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · 7 Comments
In: Apple · Tagged with: ,

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. […]

Posted on September 29, 2009 at 10:41 am by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Solaris · Tagged with: 

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 […]

Posted on September 25, 2009 at 11:18 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Oracle, Sun

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.

Posted on September 17, 2009 at 9:50 am by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
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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.

Posted on September 14, 2009 at 10:48 am by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Sun

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 […]

Posted on September 14, 2009 at 10:29 am by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Sun

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.

Posted on September 10, 2009 at 11:57 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Sun

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 […]

Posted on September 8, 2009 at 2:42 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Linux, Veritas · Tagged with: , ,

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 […]

Posted on September 7, 2009 at 12:38 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · 7 Comments
In: Linux · Tagged with: ,

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 […]

Posted on September 2, 2009 at 5:39 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Linux