Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop installation review
March 29, 2008
I decided to install Ubuntu 8.04 beta, and try to imagine myself as a novice desktop user and how this may be the replacement desktop for my mother, or my wife or sister (note: all my brothers are geeks so I can’t include them) or a small business.
Ubuntu and the state of enterprise Linux
March 27, 2008
Ubuntu has evolved over the last years, and has become quite popular on the desktop. Ubuntu is also working on its position in the enterprise. I, however, am a bit apprehensive to adopt Ubuntu for the server, and have a tough time recommending my clients to use Ubuntu vs. Red Hat (CentOS) or SuSE. I currently prefer CentOS for the free distribution, and RHEL where required (like SAP implementations).
Linux Foundation Speaker Line-Up for 2nd Annual Collaboration Summit
March 13, 2008
Kernel Developers, IDC’s Head Linux Analyst and Companies Such as Dell, HP, IBM, MySQL, and Oracle Will Debate Growth Opportunities for the Platform
SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwire – March 11, 2008) – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced the speakers for its 2nd Annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit. Read more
Amazing Photos of Saturns Moon, Enceladus by Cassini
March 13, 2008
The Cassini spacecraft was sent to dive through an ice geyser on Saturn’s moon Enceladus last night. Pictures were radioed back to Earth late last night and NASA personnel were able to process and upload the raw images to their website early this morning.
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft had a deliberate near- Read more
Linux Bare metal has a new player, LinMin.
March 11, 2008
LinMin provides Bare Metal Provisioning (BMP) for your Linux servers. The use of BMP greatly reduces the overhead a system administrator requires to deploy and manage existing servers. Read more
Yahoo and Microsoft, what happens to Zimbra?
March 10, 2008
What will become of Zimbra if Microsoft acquires Yahoo? For those not familiar with Zimbra, it is a great open source email collaboration suite, with a nice (the nicest?) web front end and easy to use administration interface.
Check out the demo here.
SAP 4.6c Oracle recommendations
March 10, 2008
I had put this together for a 4.6C system back in 2005. Some of these are now default behavior, but you may still have some older systems that have not yet been converted, or it may provide a good reference at some point. Read more
SAP instance check shell script
March 10, 2008
I wrote this script about about four years ago and came across it again today. This will probobly be helpful in someway to someone someday 
This script requires the SAP SDK, which is available from SAP. If you can’t find it let me know.
So, this script will do the following:
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Attempt to connect to sap using sapinfo command check to see if host is already known to be down, or if recovered from being down
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send pages / email to defined list
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Tracks systems that are already down so as not to resend email / pages
Rename / Move Oracle datafile
March 10, 2008
I needed to move a datafiles from one directory to another. The datafile was created in the wrong location. Here is a procedure I used:
Linux 2.6 Filesystem Benchmarks (older)
March 10, 2008
A while back (August 2006) I decided to do some benchmarking on different filesystems, in part to validate my assumption that using JFS with Linux was a good idea. Now with more that 1 year in production, performance is great (as shown below), and the filesystem is stable. No issues. Onto the details… Read more
