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A coalition of churches quickly formed following the quake in Haiti, Churches Helping Churches, made up of several churches including Pastor Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church in Seattle. They went on site last week to assist the churches in Haiti and assess the needs. Yesterday Pastor Mark preached a special sermon which told the entire story of his trip. If your interested in the situation on the ground in Haiti and particularly in ...
A colleague recently told me that he'd heard that you could create some file that would change the default parameters that "useradd" used, such as change the default shell. I hadn't heard of this before and answered, "Ya, you just specify it as an argument to useradd!" Never the less, he was insistent that there was a way and wanted to know what it was. So our journey began. If there was a way, we had two options. First, we could run ...
2009 is going... along with the first decade of the new millennium. After 10 years I'm still unsure what we call this decade, seems like we've dodged the question in uncertainty. I'll end this year on a personal note and get back to technical posts in the new year. If there was any doubt about my suspicions of being ADHD they are confirmed by the strange journey my studies have taken me in December. You'll notice my last post was an ...
Let there be great rejoicing! Oracle 11g R2 has been released for X86!!! So snubbed was Solaris/X86 that there was no release for Oracle 11g (R1)... but that time has passed and R2 is available on BOTH SPARC & X86. w00t! Only 5 years of checking daily... I knew it would pay off eventually. ;)
Role models are something we have few of; sad that perhaps the most recent one comes from a beer commercial: I mean, come on... his advice on careers "Find what you don't do well.... and don't do that thing." Classic! Need something more expansive? Learn Chinese! If you find it difficult, try to learn Japanesse... and then you'll go back and appreciate how much easier Chinese languages are. Not intellectual enough? Need ...
Lots of folks have switched to Mac, its the most commonly used laptop in the Bay Area now. Sometimes people give me flack for using it, but I'll tell you why I use a Mac laptop: It just works! When going to a client site, a conference, or just a cafe, there is nothing more embarrassing than spending 20 minutes trying to get your l337 *NIX laptop to connect to wireless or properly DHCP or work with a printer. This isn't as big a problem ...
I'm really pleased to announce that Intel Capital has invested in Joyent. This is a really exciting thing for us. This is the first time we've taken funding. We've really been proud of the fact that we haven't needed funding, but the benefits that come along with an investment from Intel are fantastic and just that relationship alone is exciting. This is a big announcement not only for Joyent, but for OpenSolaris as well. We're ...
My talk at LISA is now available. This is a 1 hour version of the ZFS in the Trenches talk. As always I hope that you find it informative and at least a little entertaining. Slides are here). I also want to take this opportunity to say a heart felt thank you to Deirdré Straughan, Lynn Rohrer, and Teresa Giacomini. Because of Deirdre countless people around the globe can participate and learn from important events. Not only ...
For sometime now I've gone back and forth on what is my personally preferred (LDAP) directory server; in particular between Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition, OpenDS, and OpenLDAP. Each has advantages and trade-offs: DSEE: Not free, complex, but well trusted, exceptional scalability OpenDS: Free, super simple install and management GUI included, best starter directory for sure, but relatively new to the scene and thus needs to ...
benr@quadra ~$ zpool list NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT quadra 928G 518G 410G 55% 1.00x ONLINE - Shiny. ;) More to come soon....