Monthly Archives: October 2008
Tape mounts in MVS 3.8J, automating them
Ok, I’ve been in computers too long. As soon as I got MVS3.8J running in hercules I thought about backups. Of course I was running it under Linux so had the server backups to fall back to, but I wanted … Continue reading
Console message automation on MVS3.8J
Like many of the old timer MVS sysprogs and operators out there when I discovered the hercules emulator that lets you run your old MVS system at home I was overjoyed, and immediately wasted many happy months playing with it. … Continue reading
Puppy Happiness
Found some lovely puppie sleeping/resting pads today. Two of them. The first was a really large rectangular cushion type thing, really soft and fluffy. I was sure fletcher would like it. And then there was a big circular sort of … Continue reading
AJAX, whats the fuss about ?
I’ve had a play with AJAX as I understand it, which is basically being able to query the server and update only sections of a page instead of refreshing the entire page. I don’t believe field validation and help tips … Continue reading
The Chicken and the Egg
Finally decided to upgrade my development server from FC6 to FC9. Ran mkCDrec and created 36 CDROM iso images (the server doen’t have a DVD drive to recover from, so CD images) onto a seperate external drive on my file … Continue reading
opensolaris does run in virtualbox, eventually
Finally got opensolaris to install inside virtualbox. Seems the problems I was having were because I didn’t allocate enough memory to the VM. Solaris 0606 runs in 348Mb, opensolaris 200805 won’t install in less than 512Mb. It doesn’t unfortunately tell … Continue reading
Looks like there is no free bare-metal recovery software for opensolaris
Well lots of poking around on the web today, and the possibility of being able to do a bare-metal install from a backup set for opensolaris with a ZFS root filesystem doesn’t appear to exist yet. A lot of forums … Continue reading
So what do I do with opensolaris, and are there any backup tools
Well, I’ve got the opensolaris test server at the point I want it now. My next question is what do I do with it. Lets see, my website runs on linux, my development server is linux, and my home desktop … Continue reading
Usefull program – ZULUPAD
Finally found a program on the web that is really usefull. Suggest you all have a look at zulupad. Basically its a standalone wiki for windows. But much easier to use than a web based wiki. Unfortunately this is a … Continue reading
Well, opensolaris and cloning the rootfs
Well it’s done, opensolaris 2008.05 re-installed. This time I took a snapshot and cloned the rootfs. It wasn’t quite as easy as I though. Well actually it was, it just lost everything I had installed into /opt. Eventually figured it … Continue reading