I have been introduced to a very cool software/hardware combination yesterday. It has been, without exaggerating, one of the coolest things I have seen in a while. As you may know, x86 has an issue with scaling up. It’s that x86 architectures and price don’t justify scaling up to tenths and hundreds of CPUs. The…
While Linux vendors tend to maintain and publish the whole zone and daylight saving (DST) information, most legacy Unix vendors do not. Especially when it comes to such a small country such as Israel. The following solution was tested for HP-UX B.11.31, and would probably work for all 11i versions. Israel timezone is called IST….
Suse, for some reason, has to be over-complicated. I don’t really know why, but the time required to perform simple tasks under Suse is longer than on any other Linux distro, and can be compared only to other legacy Unix systems I am familiar with. When it comes to a more complicated tasks, it gets…
I’ve lost an external DAS (Direct Attached Storage) today. Not lost as in could not find, but lost due to power supply failure. I’ve been home, got a phone call saying all the company’s Unix storage, which is contained on a DAS including two 72GB HDDs in a mirror (DiskSuite on Solaris8) is not available….
Well, It’s been a while since I’ve considered playing with a blog of my own. I’ve never quite found the convicting reason which will pull me out of my chair, and not-a-single-thing-doing-for-a-whole-afternoon-while-browsing-the-net into the active part of installing my own blog. Well, I did just ten minutes ago. Why? Because during my tech adventures (as…
