1&1's documentation is pretty awful but to be fair they only expect real system administrators to be using their dedicated servers. They give you a copy of Plesk 10 but it doesn't have any capabilities to alter the disk or volume group layouts. 1&1 layout their default image in a way that only gives you 4GB on each of the major partitions and it leaves the other 212GB as unallocated. So in order to use the server properly you have to get interested in the Logical Volume Manager. more »
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It’s one of those fiddly things to recursively check-in an entire directory structure under Clearcase, and each time I do it I have to remember how. So I’m putting it into my long term memory here!
Move to the parent directory of the… more »
The Eclipse Project's web site is notoriously difficult to navigate and find New and Noteworthy information so I started grouping them together here. The proof is in the pudding and these pages have been extremely successful. The Eclipse site is getting… more »
Ever come across the situation where you need to search for sets of values in a (MySQL) database? SQL along the lines of: SELECT col1, col2 FROM table1 WHERE (col3 = 5 and col4 = 6) or (col3 = 10 and col4 = 12) or (col3 = 15 and col4 = 3) more »
Before any free conference call service existed, calls between three or more people, were reserved for the senior-level administration of the world's mega-corporations. The technology was new, the hardware expensive and most people did not make enough help more »