Part One of my Raspberry Pi adventures (so far)
A DIY task leads to reflections on the tools we use.
I was introduced to the z/VM hypervisor in the early 2000s, around the time that IBM announced formal support for Linux on the System/390 family (earlier in my career I had heard of something called "VM/ESA", and thought it sounded cool). I was part of the team that wrote the "ISP/ASP Solutions" IBM Redbooks publication, … Continue reading z/VM Express System Installation (ESI)
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com EDIT: I posted a TL;DR version of this (including screen-shots!) as a LinkedIn article here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/making-changes-git-repository-access-codeready-workspaces-vic-cross. If you've come here from that article, thanks for your interest in the details of my experience! As part of the setup of an environment for a customer workshop, I installed Red Hat CodeReady … Continue reading Making changes to Git repository access in CodeReady Workspaces
I have been using LDAP as a central data store for a very long time. Back when I had a home Asterisk PBX, I had an LDAP directory that functioned as a household phone book and source of caller-ID data for the IP phones installed through the home. This LDAP directory was also the authentication … Continue reading LDAP on z/VM as an Open Authentication Source
It's been a long time since I wrote here. The earlier content you see here actually came from my previous blogs at veejoe-dot-com-dot-au and later viccross-dot-com, both of which for various reasons are... no longer available. So why relaunch? Well, mostly because I still have things to say! I have not decided exactly what yet, … Continue reading Relaunching… again
My Linux-based Large-Scale Cloning Grid experiment, which I've implemented four times now (don't ask, unless you are ready for a few looooooong stories), has three main components to it. The first, which provides the magic by which the experiment can even exist, is the z Systems hypervisor z/VM. The second is the grist on the … Continue reading Programming decisions
This is a fictionalised retelling of a dream I had in the wee hours of this morning. It flows basically the same as the action from the dream, but some of the thinking and interpretation occurred in the couple of hours after I woke up and still had the dream in my head. I also … Continue reading Good Luck: a dream
The last couple of weeks have seen a radically positive shift in my state of mind, ironically triggered by finding out that my ex-wife has her boyfriend moving in. I've realised that life is too short to live in the past (even though I wasn't conscious of doing so) and that looking forward is the … Continue reading Beginning Again
It's easy to treat a silly slogan on a coffee mug as little more than just a few words designed to evoke a wry grin from a slightly antisocial co-worker. Sometimes it can take on a deeper meaning, if you let it.
Crossed Wires 