I had to copy all of the files (calc scripts) from my Essbase servers’ application directories, and wanted to preserve the folder layout in the destination. I ran the following against all of my servers to achieve this: cp --parents `find...
I was searching around a few days ago for an opensource or freeware software virtualization tool like Vmware’s ThinApp. I stumbled across Cameyo (http://www.cameyo.com/). This is a pretty nice tool. You start the installation monitoring/listening tool, and it records all of the changes made to...
I know this really isn’t a normal note, but I just wanted to let everyone know that Ginza Fax is a great add on to any gmail or google apps account. I’ve been using it for over a month and it...
Change Management and Systems Administration Links: http://nagios.org/ http://puppet.reductivelabs.com/ – Central change management http://cacti.net/ – network monitoring, trending and graphing CF-Like Applications: http://www.turbogears.org/ – front to back web applications Live CD Distributions: http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page Other interesting sites: http://www.aftervoice.com/ – text to speech phone calls [ad#ad-post]...
So, lets say you are stupid and flash the wrong bios and now you system won’t boot. I did this today. Pull the bios chip out and find another motherboard that it will fit into. Don’t put it in yet. Boot...
I found this interesting article about enabling a unused key (like the help button) on the comcast remote to be used as a 30 second skip (like directv has on their remotes) to be used during DVR playbacks. http://www.pdxtc.com/wpblog/technology-articles/comcast-remote-30-second… [ad#ad-post]...