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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 […]
First day at kindergarten
Yes, today is the first of September and it’s the first day when my boy went to a kindergarten. Ooh, time runs really fast indeed!
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: the Ars Technica review
An outstanding and in depth review of freshly released Snow Leopard is available at Ars Technica. So if you’re wondering about the changes introduced with this update then the article is a must-read.
Back on the track
Since all good things alway come to the end, I’m sitting at the office re-spinning again and again vivid memories of the holidays I had. I doubt I’d be able to put my feelings and impressions into coherent words so I won’t even try just believe me – it was spectacular and flamboyant in every […]
Two weeks of silence
I doubt that anyone out there would notice my absence but, anyway, just for a record, tomorrow I’m ducking out to Croatia for vocations. Have fun and enjoy your time, friends!
Redsnow is waiting for reboot
I always used either pawnage or quickpwn tools to unlock/jailbreak my iPhone but yesterday I gave a go to another tool from the iPhobe Dev-Team called RedSnow which provides similar functionality to quickpwn. Said and done, I installed required package, upgraded my phone to 3.0.1 release and fired up the redsnow thoroughly following the instructions. […]
In: Apple · Tagged with: iphone, redsnow