I know I typically stick with fairly technical stuff on this site. But there’s a trailer so I’ll pretend it is a little technical… One of my favorite authors, Jack Kerouac, wrote a number of books. And when he was “just plumb sick and tired…of the whole nerve-wracking scene” he wrote Big Sur. Unlike On the Road or some of his earlier works that look at a new generation with fresh eyes, as something that is exciting and new Big Sur is a book from a haunted man, trying to reconcile these new ideas with his own upbringing and the contradictions that he has seen. In Big Sur, he becomes…
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Clariion/Navisphere CLI
A Clariion can be managed using the /opt/Navisphere/bin/navicli command. You can obtain information about the environment using the -h option followed by the IP address of the IP of the Clariion and then a number of get verbs. For example, to get all of the settings for the Clariion at 192.168.210.88: navicli -h 192.168.210.88 getall Or to get LUN information navicli -h 192.168.210.88 getlun You can also use getagent, getarrayuid, getcache, getconfig, getcontrol, getcrus, getdisk, getlog, getloop, getrg, getsniffer, getsp, getsptime and while it doesn’t start with get, lunmapinfo will obtain information about the LUN mappings. For example, to see a LUN mapped to a UID using the same host…
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Windows 7 HomeGroup
HomeGroup is a new home security feature of WIndows 7. HomeGroup resemble how you protect your home (an analogy I use in the Mac OS X Security book as well): Keep the outside doors locked and keep the interior doors unlocked (unless you’re on the crapper). HomeGroup can be initiated by any Windows 7 version other than Home Basic and Starter editions. Any Windows 7 machine can join a HomeGroup though and it is not a backwards compatible feature, meaning that if you’re still running Windows 95, 98 or Millineum don’t bother to upgrade (you probably can’t read this site anyway). But 2K to Vista, you gots’ta upgrade to play…
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Alfresco Content Management
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Metadata Video @ 318
Metadata cartoon over on 318: http://www.318.com/techjournal/xsan/318-on-metadata
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Testing Speed
www.speedtest.net is a nice site that allows you to test the speed of your Internet connection for free. They also have a free companion iPhone app that allows you to test the speed of an Internet connection without actually opening up your laptop.
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Shadow Copy from the Command Line
I was recently building some scripts to alternate shadow copy storage locations (long story). In so doing, I found that pretty much anything I would normally do in the GUI is exposed at the command prompt using the vssadmin command. The first and one of the most important things that you can do is list settings. This includes the following: providers – lists components that can create and maintain shadow copies shadows – lists shadow copies shadowstorage – lists storage that can be used for shadow copies volumes – lists volumes that have shadow copy enabled writers – lists registered components of applications that store persistent information on a volume…
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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 and Snow Leopard and must say that I’m impressed by how well it shares screens and how zippy it is over my AirPort network. Nice little app that deserves a plug: http://www.tiffanyscreens.com
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That Wacky Adobe Security Flaw
Information about the exploit: Wacky Security Flaw Patch thyself: Adobe’s Mac patch site Adobe’s Windows patch site That is all I have to say about that.
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Open Directory Populated ARD Computer Lists
In Mac OS X 10.5-based Open Directory (or higher) and Apple Remote Desktop 3.3 (or higher) you can now add directory services objects as computer lists. Simply open Apple Remote Desktop from a bound computer, click on Scanner and then click on the drop-down list for the type of scanner. Here, select Directory Server and you should start to see your Open Directory objects populating the list, obviating a previous article on populating lists at deployment time. BTW, if you’re interested in creating computer lists based on Active Directory, start with cn=computer_lists. Note: Turns out Randy Saeks has also done an article on this topic. Find it here: http://rsaeks.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/using-opendirectory-computer-lists-with-apple-remote-desktop/