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Index of pages filed with the "Unix" tag (listing records 1 to 10 of 11):
- As the Dust Settles...
(Date: Sun 27-Mar-2005 | Comments: 1 | Permalink)
Oh boy, the Urban Mainframe server migration certainly didn't go according to plan. In theory it should have been a simple exercise: copy the MySQL database, CMS and web-server file-system from an aging and under-performing Linux 7.3 server to a new RedHat ... (continue reading) - Switching
(Date: Wed 9-Feb-2005 | Comments: 19 | Permalink)
Today I have finally succumbed to temptation and placed an order for an Apple Power Mac G5. I expect to take delivery on Friday (11th-Feb-2005). I've been a prospective "Switcher" for some time, so this move will come as no surprise to regular readers ... (continue reading) - Solaris 10
(Date: Fri 4-Feb-2005 | Comments: 5 | Permalink)
Four and a half hours of downloading, concatenating 5 x 450MB files and md5summing the result... and I finally have a copy of Sun's Solaris 10. I have enjoyed using Solaris (versions 8 and 9) on Sun workstations for a couple of years. Now I can enjoy ... (continue reading) - Technical Weblogs
(Date: Tue 25-Jan-2005 | Comments: 10 | Permalink)
I need to feed (pun intended) my hunger for technical weblogs and add a few more feeds to my blogroll. I am particularly interested in weblogs that cover the following topicsSoftware DevelopmentCPerl / mod_perlRuby / RailsApacheDatabases / MySQLUnix ... (continue reading) - One-to-Many File Distribution
(Date: Mon 3-Jan-2005 | Comments: 6 | Permalink)
I recently had to update some CGI scripts duplicated within thirty or so virtual servers on one physical box. The thought of manually FTPing the revised scripts into each website's file-system wasn't a very attractive one. So I wrote a little shell script ... (continue reading) - Liberation Day
(Date: Tue 9-Nov-2004 | Comments: 8 | Permalink)
This is a momentous day. I have finally purged the last remaining Windows server from my network! The Great Cull of 2004 began, you may remember, with the cleansing of my media server back in August. I subsequently eradicated Windows from my "scratch ... (continue reading) - Chasing Your Tail
(Date: Sun 7-Nov-2004 | Comments: 3 | Permalink)
I've just discovered the *nix command, tail - and what a useful command it is. In its simplest form, tail displays the last 10 lines of a file. Now I appreciate that this doesn't sound very exciting, but tail has a particularly useful trick up its sleeve ... (continue reading) - The SmoothWall
(Date: Thu 4-Nov-2004 | Comments: 2 | Permalink)
I've just installed a SmoothWall Express 2.0 firewall at the edge of my LAN to replace an aging WinGate 4 proxy server. SmoothWall is an advanced, open source firewall distribution based on the GNU/Linux operating system. Along with the firewall, SmoothWall ... (continue reading) - Unix Shell on Windows
(Date: Thu 21-Oct-2004 | Comments: 10 | Permalink)
Our Shapeshifter application servers all run some variant of Unix. Whilst working on the servers I spend most of my time in the BASH shell. On my Windows XP desktop computer, I spend a large portion of my time using the DOS shell. The problem is that ... (continue reading) - Windows 2000 Server Has Pissed Me Off for the Last Time
(Date: Tue 31-Aug-2004 | Comments: 4 | Permalink)
I returned to the office after my week's sojourn in Paris only to find that one of my file-servers had died in my absence. It seems our building suffered a direct hit during an electrical storm and, in accordance with Murphy's Law, I had a single server ... (continue reading)
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