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Roll Your Own Thunderbolt 3 External SSD

By Tom Southerland Posted on August 17, 2020 Posted in Mac, Technology, Virtualization No Comments

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 …

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Cleaning up after KernSafe Trial

By Tom Southerland Posted on March 19, 2020 Posted in Mac, Technology, Uncategorized No Comments

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 …

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Solaris 11 Serial Console

By Tom Southerland Posted on August 26, 2017 Posted in Mac, Solaris, Technology, Virtualization No Comments

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 …

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Linksys (NOTSO) Smart Wi-Fi

By Tom Southerland Posted on December 6, 2016 Posted in Networking, Technology No Comments

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

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Using NFS for a Time Machine disk.

By Tom Southerland Posted on September 4, 2015 Posted in linux, Mac No Comments

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 …

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Oracle archive log cleanup script

By Tom Southerland Posted on July 21, 2015 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments

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 …

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Installing systemtap on CentOS 7

By Tom Southerland Posted on May 25, 2015 Posted in linux, Technology, Virtualization No Comments

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 …

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Installing Oracle 12c on CentOS 7

By Tom Southerland Posted on February 1, 2015 Posted in linux, Technology, Virtualization No Comments

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 …

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Focaccia Style Flax Bread

By Tom Southerland Posted on April 23, 2014 Posted in Recipe No Comments

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 10Ă—15 pan with sides works best) with oiled parchment …

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FreeBSD / FreeNAS Clone Jail

By Tom Southerland Posted on April 22, 2014 Posted in BSD, Technology, Virtualization 1 Comment

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 …

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