Directory Services
opends ldap | General | Tuesday October 20, 2009 | By William Hathaway
Ludovic has posted some information about two cool new features that are coming really soon to OpenDS : Enumeration based attributes Regular expression based attributes Before these features were added, you generally had to perform logic about what...
Sysadmin Corner
dedup opensolaris zfs | General | Thursday October 15, 2009 | By William Hathaway
I just noticed on the OpenSolaris ARC discussion forum that a proposal for adding de-duplication into 'zfs send' has appeared . Updated: There is another ARC sighting - ZFS deduplication properties .
Sysadmin Corner
installcluster solaris patch patching solaris10 | Solaris | Friday August 14, 2009 | By William Hathaway
Check out the entry on the Solaris patching blog: http://blogs.sun.com/patch/entry/improvements_to_solaris_10_recommended It looks like a lot of good (and long overdue) updates made it into&nb...
Sysadmin Corner
solaris ldoms virtualization sparc | General | Thursday July 02, 2009 | By William Hathaway
Links: download and docs I think the physical to virtual conversion tool would be of interest to a lot of folks with aging hardware running on Solaris 8 and 9 who would love to convert their machine to a couple of threads on a CMT box....
Sysadmin Corner
jumpstart jet solaris | Solaris | Wednesday June 10, 2009 | By William Hathaway
I've been working on JET for a customer this week. It provides a nice framework around Jumpstart and handles a lot of the details in an organized fashion. I think using JET can reduce the amount of time needed to customize and troubleshoot the...
Sysadmin Corner
storage | General | Friday May 29, 2009 | By William Hathaway
Henry Newman, a long-time storage pundit, is one of my favorite writers on the topic. He offers a lot of great insights about various storage management technologies, trends, and processes. You can view a list of his articles at: ...
Software Development
General | Friday May 15, 2009 | By Bill Kratzer
Dealing with SSL issues can sometimes be difficult to track down. There are many moving parts: keystores, truststores, certificate chains, to name a few. Luckily, there is nice debugging capability built into Java to debug SSL...
Sysadmin Corner
sysadmin solaris patching | Solaris | Friday May 08, 2009 | By William Hathaway
From the Sun Patch Blog ... The Zones Parallel Patching performance enhancement continues on schedule. It has been successfully beta tested by a number of key customers who confirm a 3x performance improvement patching zones. It is on...
Project Management
project management | General | Wednesday February 18, 2009 | By Jamie
There are loads of Project Management websites and blogs on the internet, some are useful, some amusing and some just plain strange. I browse through a few every so often, looking for tips and ideas that I can steal and use as my own. Reading this today...
