SSH is a wonderful tool. One of its best features is the ability to pierce a firewall and let you go through it. If you’re using the dynamic port (-D as argument in command line openSSH), you actually get a SOCKS5 proxy over which you can transport all your desired data. This allows you the…
I use this blog as an external memory. I found myself lately looking for the obvious patches for Oracle GI and RDBMS products, and although I eventually reach the right location, the time consumed looking for them is a wasted time. So – to make sure I can remember them correctly, here are the two…
As my work takes me to various places (where technology is concerned), I collect lots of browser tab of things I want to keep for later reference. I have to admit, sadly, that I lack the time to sort them out, to make a real good and nice post about them. I do not want…
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…
Most modern servers use Broadcom network cards. The module is called tg3 and is known to have issues. You can find in my blog several posts about weird problems with tg3. This post is about another one I’ve encountered only recently. The server: Dell PowerEdge (PE) 830. Linux version: RedHat Advanced Server 4 (RHEL4) Update…
When a company is about to relocate to a new floor or a new building, that is the time when the little piles of dirt swept under the rug come back to hunt you. In several companies I have been to, I have stressed the need of an ordered environment. This is valid to networking…
