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Away for 3 days
I’m preparing for a short, at least I do very hope it will be a short one, 3-days trip to Nizhniy Novgorod to perform SL500 library maintenance. More precisely, I’ll be replacing RLE card but since SL500 is extremely naughty you could never know what another funny thing does it keep in its sleeve. Wish […]
Sleeping in a /vol
If running “ls -l /” stalls but the same command to any other directory works seamlessly then most probably you’re hitting the following issue. To confirm that use truss: # truss ls -l . . . lstat64(“/vol”, 0xFFBFF8E8) (sleeping…) Additionally try “grep /var/adm/message” for NFS errors: # grep NFS /var/adm/messages NFS server for volume management […]
A generous road policeman
As far as I know it’s a common practice amongst the drivers all over the globe to warn each other by blinking with upper-beam whenever there is a road-police on an ambush ahead. In my country it looks quite ugly and ridiculous at the same time to watch them lurking in the bushes, behind the […]
Faint sound from SA
Recently I’ve received few ppictures of myself and my classmates from Sun Microsystems TDC training in South Africa. That was truly awesome two months experience I mentally replay in my head over and over again, not only because it was a great opportunity to visit SA and to meet new faces, but, to a greater […]
Short weekend trip
Trying to break a monotonous weekend we decided to make a short trip near Moscow and set off to Vereya. Though the place was quite nice but contrary to our expectations, massively based on my friend’s impressions, it wasn’t exactly what we expected to see. The town has radiant and old history but unfortunately very […]
Kernel Conference Australia
Kernel Conference Australia is kicking off today. This is a three days event which, as appears from the subject, is dedicated to different intricacies of internals of Operating Systems, i.e. Solaris/OpenSolaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Linux. And if you’re upset of being unable to participate then here is a live stream so you could enjoy the conference […]
Netbackup’s error 96.
Actually this error is trivially easy to overcome. # bperror -S 96 unable to allocate new media for backup, storage unit has none available The tape manager (bptm) could not allocate a new volume for backups. This indicates that the storage unit has no more volumes available in the volume pool for this backup. Note […]
That was quick!
Five minutes ago I received a parcel from Amazon with two books I ordered on Monday. It took only two days to have it delivered from the USA to Russia (Moscow) – I’m deeply impressed! Unfortunately there is always a fly in the ointment. Amazon’s service worked brilliantly but our local DHL didn’t even bother […]
In: Life · Tagged with: book
The Mac Hacker’s Handbook
Have just turned over the last page of “The Mac Hacker’s Handbook” and I’d like to admit that this book is not intended for faint-hearted. To tell the truth, reading this book filled me with controversial sensations. On the one hand, this book has flooded me up with tons of useful information and interesting references, […]
In: Apple · Tagged with: book, mac os x
Solaris 10 Internals
Just finished re-reading few chapters of Solaris 10 Internals and I must admin this book is truly awesome. It’s not only because it’s well written and very detailed but also spiced with code examples and this fact just encourages you to dive deeper and deeper. Moreover, this book covers some topics (i.e. Memory, The Process […]
In: Solaris · Tagged with: book