November 21st, 2008 by TheBonsai
Ha! A rant!
Yesterday someone gave me a link… The 7 deadly Linux commands
It sounded interesting, so I started to read. The whole thing was about 7 ways to (permanently or temproraily) kill a Linux system. I picked 4 below.
I didn’t trust my eyes, not only that the initial article has some really serious bugs, especially the comments are really amazing. That looks like an own “dailyWTF” for administration! Read the rest of this entry »
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October 14th, 2008 by TheBonsai
At work, we have Oracle and -related systems on top of SLES10. When you need them to work in a shared environment (e.g. shared NFS disk), the user oracle and the group oinstall need the same user ID on all systems (naturally).
Unfortunately, the IDs of these entities depend on the point in the installation process where you install the SUSE orarun packet, since the UID is generated on the fly. This leads to trouble here and then (nothing serious, but it’s a bit of work to fix such an issue afterwards). Of course I think the installation procedure of the SLES orarun package should use a fixed ID here, but that’s something SUSE decides, not me (it tastes like a bug).
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September 23rd, 2008 by TheBonsai
The Scheherazade release - 1001 nights of coding
Damien Sandras has released the Version 3.0 of his Ekiga software phone.
This is a major release, most of the code has been rewritten. Many changes are not visible because they are in internal code. See the feature list (major new features are in bold-italic font):
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