i was trying to install oracle database 11g on solaris 11 and ran into a roadblock. the install requires at least 1GB of free swap space. luckily i found a blog entry where someone else was having the same exact problem and posted a solution for it. here it is in a few steps: root@solaris:~# […]
a while ago i stumbled upon a really cool vintage terminal called cathode (http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode). unfortunately, thus far it’s only available for mac os x. i’ve been looking for a similar terminal for linux. i haven’t really found anything that’s equivalent to cathode, but today i found out that 2 xscreensaver modules (apple2 and phosphor) can […]
encountered an issue a few months ago where a couple of users reported duplicate messages in their unity mailboxes. i verified that this was indeed the case. same exact time stamp and same content. i looked around for a solution and found something on a forum that suggested restarting the Connection MTA service. this service […]
i upgraded to ubuntu 12.04 two months ago and i don’t have much to say about it. which could be taken as a good or bad thing. to me, it’s mostly good because i keep getting a desktop that i want with little to no changes. i know there’s still so much talk about the […]
couple of weeks ago something very strange was affecting one virtual machine. our monitoring solution showed the VM losing connectivity every couple of minutes. the windows system logs showed “LSI_SCSI Event 129 – Reset to device, \Device\RaidPort2, was issued” occurring every minute. clearly sounded like a storage issue, but the SAN performance was fine at the […]
i learned something today about thin provisioning that never dawned on me before. a thinly provisioned disk clearly grows as more storage is required…but when data is deleted from the guest OS volumes the thin provisioned disk does not shrink accordingly. so if you let a 1TB thin provisioned volume grow to say 800GB then […]
after a text install of solaris 11, here’s a quick way to get x & gnome up and running: sudo pkg install slim_install sudo svcadm enable gdm also of note is that all current releases of solaris are 64-bit only…despite some releases still being listed as x86. and…nice first steps article from oracle: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/servers-storage-admin/o11-112-s11-first-steps-524819.html source: […]
i’ve meant to post this forever… in short how to get the quicklaunch bar back in windows 7: add a new toolbar browse to c:\users\%username%\appdata\roaming\microsoft\internet explorer then select the quick launch folder source: http://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to-enable-or-disable-quick-launch-bar-toolbar-in-windows-7/
to get the pano controller functional with vmware view as the broker i had to do the following: setup pano controller appliance as a zero client controller only (for vmware view) disable “use secure tunnel connection to desktop” in view (per panologic docs) on the pano controller, set vmware view as the broker create a […]
on a fresh install of windows 2008 r2 w/ latest updates applied RDP sessions would immediately disconnect after login. then RDP services would appear to become unavailable. event viewer->application showed “faulting application name: svchost.exe_termservice… faulting module name: rdpcorekmts.dll…” this is evidently caused by an update being applied prior to SP1 being applied. the solution i […]