Brad's Blog

Bookmarks for January 17th

brad — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 03:23:46 +0000

These are my links for January 17th:

Course: Introduction to Moodle Programming – Needs a moodle.org account
HP Directories Support for Management Processors – Includes iLO bulk updater
VMware Communities: bensykes’ blog: Running VMware ESXi inside VMware Server 2 –
HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) family HP StorageWorks HBAs (Emulex LightPulse 4 Gb/s, 8 Gb/s) VMware ESX3.5 Best Practices White Paper (pdf) –
The Oracle+PHP Cookbook –
LDAP enrolment – MoodleDocs –
Red Hat Knowledgebase: How do I configure kexec/kdump on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5? –
If I add several hundred GB of RAM to a system do I really need several hundred GB of swap space ? – RH swap sizing recommendations
MediaCoder – more than a universal audio/video transcoder –

Bookmarks for January 12th

brad — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:28:10 +0000

These are my links for January 12th:

memcached: a distributed memory object caching system –
cooltools: Cool Tools at OpenSPARC T1 – Open source applications optimized for Sun Solaris
Canon Europe – EF LENS WORK III EN –
Deploying Exchange Server 2007 on VMware Infrastructure: A VMware Internal Case Study –
[freshrpms.net] – Oracle 10g Instant Client on RHEL4 and RHEL5 –
Yum Repository at Utter Ramblings –
The Omni Group – OmniFocus – Personal task management software for OSX
Perl Advent Calendar FAQ –
Getting Started with PowerShell and PowerGUI in your Virtual Infrastructure –
Blackboard migration – MoodleDocs –
Systems Administration Advent Calendar 2008 –
Troubelshooting ISW deployments –
bFree – Blackboard™ Course Content Extractor –
Nixu Software – Virtualization-Ready DNS and IP Addressing Solutions –

Oracle Instant Client and $ORACLE_HOME

brad — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:12:31 +0000

On RedHat with Oracle Instant Client you need to be very particular with $ORACLE_HOME, as the following shows:

$ ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/10.2.0.3/client/ $ export ORACLE_HOME $ $ORACLE_HOME/bin/sqlplus Error 6 initializing SQL*Plus Message file sp1.msb not found SP2-0750: You may need to set ORACLE_HOME to your Oracle software directory $ ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/10.2.0.3/client $ export ORACLE_HOME $ $ORACLE_HOME/bin/sqlplus
SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Production on Thu Jan 8 14:48:32 2009

That is, it can not have the trailing / on it.

Bookmarks for January 5th

brad — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:03:18 +0000

These are my links for January 5th:

Using vmware-vim-cmd to Modify a Portgroup -
HP disaster tolerant solutions using Continuous Access for HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array in a VMware Infrastructure 3 environment (pdf) -
EPEL – FedoraProject – Port of Fedora packages to RHEL based Linux distros
Patch Check Advanced – Patching tool for Solaris that doesn’t suck
PCApatch – Addon to PCA to be more smpatch like
Kiwi Enterprises – Windows based Syslog server etc
Let me google that for you – Self explanatory really
Viral Video Chart – Top 20 Viral Videos -
VMware Distributed Power Management: Concepts and Usage -
SQL Server Workload Consolidation on VMware ESX (pdf) -
meebo.com – Web based instant messaging client
The Hacker FAQ -
PetrolMonkey – Tracks and compares your fuel consumption
Windows Server 2008 UNIX Interoperability Components -
YouTube – MontyPython’s Channel – Monty Python’s YouTube Channel

Bookmarks for December 29th

brad — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:45:46 +0000

These are my links for December 29th:

LVM and FS resizing from a RHEL Rescue CD

brad — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 04:35:21 +0000

To resize a filesystem and logical volume after booting off a RHEL disk in rescue mode:

# lvm vchange -ay # resize2fs /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 20g # lvm lvresize -L 20G /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00

Seemed to work ok for me in shrinking a file system, but YMMV.

Mozilla Weave and Dreamhost

brad — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:26:00 +0000

I’ve just upgraded to Firefox 3 to try out Mozilla Weave to sync my bookmarks etc between computers, and it was fairly trivial. I setup WebDAV on my Dreamhost website, and then followed these instructions. Basically, install the extension, point it to my website instead of Mozillas, then log in. It seems to work ok so far, I’ll be doing more testing in the next few days.

Bookmarks for September 8th

brad — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:12:18 +0000

These are my links for September 8th:

Google Chrome

brad — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:59:04 +0000

I’ve been playing with Google Chrome today, and I think I like it. The architecture is quite nice, the way the tabs work feels seamless, and there’s lots of nice little features I keep finding. The comic gives a good feel for the design etc, and is well worth a read. My biggest issue for switching to it is a good way of syncing bookmarks between multiple computers, time will tell how much the browser is picked up and if many plugins are done for it.

Rockhampton Linux User Group

brad — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:45:34 +0000

Recently there’s been a bit of a push to try and setup a Rockhampton Linux Users Group. If you are interested please contact myself via my normal address or the organiser via rocklug@gmail.com. It will be interesting to see if there’s enough interest in Rockhampton or the greater Central Queensland area to start this up.