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)
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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
A week or so ago I succumbed to the hype (and the nagging from my devices) and installed iOS 8 on a second iPad. As far as updates go it was smooth although the post-install setup wizard crashed before it could ask me about things like iCloud Drive, which made me wonder whether I might … Continue reading iOS8 and OS X Yosemite
Earlier this year (30 March, to be precise) Oracle announced that Oracle Database 11gR2 was available as a fully-supported product for Linux on IBM System z. A while before that they had announced E-Business Suite as available for Linux on System z, but at the time the database behind it had to be 10g. Shortly after 30 … Continue reading Oracle Database 11gR2 on Linux on System z
A little while back I did an "emerge system" on my VPS and didn't think much more about it. First time back to the box today to emerge something else, and was greeted with this: >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking traceroute-2.0.15.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/net-analyzer/traceroute-2.0.15/work touch: setting times of `/var/tmp/portage/net-analyzer/traceroute-2.0.15/.unpacked': No such file or directory ...and the … Continue reading Another round of Gentoo fun
With Apple's abandonment of PPC as of Snow Leopard, I began wondering what to do with the old PowerMac. It's annoying that so (comparatively) recent a piece of equipment should be given up by its manufacturer, but that's a rant for another day. Yes, we can still run Leopard until it goes out of support, … Continue reading ppc Linux on the PowerMac G5
I've been trying to solve a problem at work for a few weeks now -- one of those tricky "it's only software so it shouldn't be this hard" sort-of problems for which you know the solution is just a matter of putting the right bits and pieces together. At work, I'm more-or-less forced into using … Continue reading Are we letting Microsoft define our industry?
It's all the rage on YouTube, apparently... posting video of a z/VM system booting something. Only kidding, this is a good piece of tech. If you search YouTube for "OpenSolaris System z" you'll find a set of five videos that show an interview (recorded at the recent Gartner datacentre conference) with David Boyes of Sine Nomine Associates demonstrating … Continue reading OpenSolaris on System z
I managed to fill up the multimedia card on the N70 -- the only thing that's surprising about that event is the length of time it took me to do it. 🙂 So I went looking for ways to get photos out of the phone into iPhoto. I can't believe it took until the third page of … Continue reading Nokia sync software for Mac!
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