Archive for the ‘Ubuntu’ Category
Goodbye OpenSolaris/OpenStorage, Hello OpenFiler/OpenDedup
I’ve read a number of reports over the past couple of days that indicate the demise of Project Wonderland and Open Solaris. As it is open source I would not be surprised to see the project continue, even if forked and retitled in some way. Oracle will continue selling Solaris, but “nothing is for free” [...]
In: Ubuntu, Unix, VMware · Tagged with: FOSS, opendedup, OpenSolaris, openstorage, Solaris
Uniq Logs
Recently I’ve been looking at a lot of log files. And sorting through them can be a bit of a pain. However, there are some tools out there to help make this process a bit easier. The first of these is sort. If I have a log that has 1,000 lines, while I like to [...]
In: Mac OS X, Ubuntu, Unix, Xsan · Tagged with: Command line, cvlog, grep, Mac OS X, script, sort, uniq, Xsan
Monitoring Amazon ec2 Instances
InterMapper has a solution for monitoring instances of the popular Amazon cloud solution, ec2. Using InterMapper’s Cloud Monitor, you can monitor up to 5 virtual machines that are running for free. If you are just getting started and find that you would like some visibility into the performance of your ec2 instances then this solution [...]
In: Ubuntu, Unix, VMware · Tagged with: cloud monitor, cloud watch, intermapper
Google Chrome OS Videos
In: Ubuntu, Unix, sites · Tagged with: chrome OS, chrome os videos
VirtualBox 3.1 Out & Tested
The latest version of VirtualBox is out and it supports a whole slew of bug fixes. In fact, the latest VirtualBox fixes a very specific problem that I’ve been struggling with, which is the fact that iSCSI LUNs greater than 2 Terabytes would not mount (not that I have many LUNs greater than 2TB in [...]
In: Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, Mac Security, Ubuntu, Uncategorized, Unix, VMware · Tagged with: 3.1, iscsi, Mac OS X, VirtualBox
Basic Git Usage
Previously we looked at installing Git on Mac OS X. Now let’s take a look at using it. The first step is to add a new local git repository that looks to a remote repository. In the following example I’m going to add a local repository called custom-safari based on the git repository at packages/custom-safari [...]
In: Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, Mac Security, Ubuntu, Unix · Tagged with: checkout, Clone, git config, Master, pull, push, Remote
Linus on Git
Thanks Chris!
In: Ubuntu · Tagged with: git, Linus Torvalds
Cross Platform Screen Sharing: TiffanyScreens
Sure, you can screen share using ARD – but to Windows? TiffanyScreens is a little application that can run on Mac, Windows or Linux. It allows you to share your screen to a number of client systems, very useful with presentation broadcasting, training and standard screen sharing. I’ve tested in my lab with Windows 7 [...]
In: Mac OS X, Ubuntu, Windows XP · Tagged with: Linux, MAC, Screen Sharing, TiffanyScreens
php from the Command Line
Using php at the command line isn’t an exact science in regard to which scripts that run in a web page will function from the shell. However, if you are automating many tasks, such as how you would go about with a shell script, then php is a nice alternative to other languages. To get [...]
In: Mac OS X, Mass Deployment, Ubuntu, Unix · Tagged with: Command line, php, Shell
Piping Commands
The pipe (|) character is used to combine multiple commands. A pipe is a temporary storage place where the output of one command is stored and then passed as the input for a second command. Pipes are used to run more than two commands from the same command line. The sort command is used to [...]
In: Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, Ubuntu, Unix · Tagged with: Command line, Linux, ls, Mac OS X, pipe, sort
