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Category Archives: tips
Funny process kill with strace
Found out a weird thing where my process would hang when I tried to do a df and one of the nfs mounts would just hang there on our CentOS 5 machines. I found that if I killed the process … Continue reading
ignore files in git
A common problem we have in our git directories are files that are generated automatically. You can do a simple thing to prep for things by creating a .gitignore file in the root of your git directory. For example here … Continue reading
10 steps to opensolaris on laptop
Chris G over at sun has some great tips for some steps when you first install open solaris on a laptop. I don’t have a laptop to try it on but the list looks good: http://blogs.sun.com/chrisg/entry/10_steps_to_opensolaris_laptop
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Backups
If you have anything that you think is remotely important (pictures, videos, documents), you better make sure that you have it backed up somewhere other than your computer. For me, I tried burning stuff to DVDs but it got really … Continue reading
Power of Warranty
Working for awhile now and I can finally see the benefits of having a good warranty. I’ll admit that for my own personal stuff, I didn’t care about a warranty of a product and would just get a new better … Continue reading
command line editors
When I was in college and we had projects due, I would always have to run my code on the open servers that the school provided. At that time I was running Windows XP and so what I would do … Continue reading
Create a Daily ToDo List
One thing that I try to use to keep myself productive is a short to do list of goals to accomplish that day at work. On my Windows XP box (my main desktop), I use a freeware program called Stick. … Continue reading
Basics of Debugging
For some time now, we get some weird Netapp problems that are difficult to debug in our environment. We run NIS, LDAP, and active directory to form a super hybrid environment to support Linux, Mac, Solaris, and Windows computers. Awhile … Continue reading
Avoid the redundancy
One thing I've noticed working in the tech field is how redundant some things can be. Whether you are trying to solve a problem or doing some maintenance, you will at some point in time be doing the same thing … Continue reading
Hexadecimal to Decimal
Since last week we did a thing with Binary, why not we try the same thing with Hex. Info about hex: There are 16 digits to choose from. Digits are 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, … Continue reading