Archive for November, 2009

NoSQL Stand Up Routine

Friday, November 27th, 2009

this is great:

hattip: High Scalability – High Scalability – Brian Aker’s Hilarious NoSQL Stand Up Routine.

Does anyone have actual useful facts about google wave yet?

Friday, November 27th, 2009

How is it hosted, how many messages per second can an instance handle, how many subscribers to a given wave can it handle, can state be failed over to another server, what kind of memory/cpu resource usage profile does it have.

So far Wave has been a wave of noise, time for some signal.

Getting “adduser” to chose the next available uid *under* 999

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

This is a redhatism, if you want to use “adduser” but for a system/service/non-regular-user account add the “-rm” flag. “-r” tells it to chose a uid between 100 and 999, and “-m” tells it to make the homedir as if it were a normal user.


adduser -rm foo

IRC explained

Sunday, November 15th, 2009

From CBS’s “Numb3rs”

How to figure out the WWN of FC HBA cards in CentOS/RHEL

Sunday, November 15th, 2009

Methods to retrieve WWPN and WWNN from FC HBA cards

Haven’t tried these yet but wanted to stick this link somewhere. Man I wish FC would just go away already.