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I recently received a 13″ MacBook Pro with an internal 512GB SSD. I support a lot of different products and need to virtualize many different environments to do so. Naturally, 512GB fills up pretty fast when creating a bunch of …
I’ve recently been evaluating iSCSI target drivers on my Mac. I tried several and I won’t bore you with those details but one, iSCSI Initiator X from KernSafe, did cause some issues following the evaluation. I wanted to capture the …
I am providing support for Solaris Cluster again and have am now on a Mac (Hacintosh) using Vmware Fusion for my virtualization. Before you proceed with this tutorial, you must first install socat on the Mac as it is used to …
I recently had to upgrade our home network wifi to accommodate the growing number of smart devices needing network access. It's nice to share…LinkedinFacebookTwitteremail
This is a compilation of several posts I found while researching this procedure and I wanted to save the steps. I’m sure I’ll need them again. My “MAC” is running 10.10.5 and the NFS server is Ubuntu Linux 14.04 with …
Here’s a quick bash script to clean up archive logs older than a week. It reads the Oracle SIDs from /etc/oratab and invokes rman for each SID. One could put this in cron to be run once a day to …
I recently had the need to install systemtap on one of my CentOS 7 VMs and the process isn’t as straight forward as it should be. It seems not all packages needed are built for all revisions of the kernel. After …
I wanted to capture the changes which need to be done to a fresh centos7 server install to support Oracle 12C. The server was installed with Basic Server using a 4GB swap device but before we can start the Oracle …
Ingredients: 2 cups flax seed meal 1 Tablespoon baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 5 beaten eggs 1/2 cup water 1/4 cup oil Preparation: Preheat oven to 350 F. Prepare pan (a 10×15 pan with sides works best) with oiled parchment …
I recently had the need to update my shiny new FreeBSD jailed server because I wanted to migrate to WordPress. I didn’t want to bring down the existing server while I did the install and converted my content so I …
