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atai, hjclub is gone but not forgotten. it is a lesson we can all learn about Google's 10 things they know are true. I know the _very_ opposite of what Google knows or doesn't know can also be true. thanks.

fix this link with Karl Barth's view on Mary & Redemptoris Mater

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rickgsmith/ rusty old bridge. beautiful photo-editing

so my boss said to be me, 'give you a heads-up, i'm going to put you on this project. We're getting VMware ESX from Dell. I want to move all our application servers to VMWare. You can do some research if you like...

I have been using Morally Inflexible servers for a couple of years for my own website. I am pretty happy with their service and low price. I recently had this exchange with Luke on Xen vs. KVM. I'm thinking of getting Luke's 'The book of Xen'

The Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty

Nominations for the 2010 Friedman Prize are now being accepted.

'Apache mod_rewrite cache'

troubleshooting apps on JVM

Jython scripting for administering WebSphere & WebLogic App servers

To read: clustering Jira with terracotta. Scarlet - clustering Jira. Two action scripts - Jira and Jabber

To do: rolling upgrade of Oracle RAC 10.1 -> 10.2 on production two nodes running RedHat OS upgrade from 32-bit AS3.5 to 64-bit AS4.7on Dell PowerEdge hardware with EMC SAN storage powerpath.

NOT to forget: Ash Wednesday

To be or not to be PITAs like those two PITAs I am working with in the year of Ox?

Scary

if Linux booting under 5 seconds is scary, what would you call the incident of finding your Dell PowerEdge 6850 server RAID 10 RedHat AS 3 Update 5 OS's hard drive /dev/sda's partition table simply evaporated (non-existed any more) after a normal 'init 6' ? No apparent system hardware faulted... After recover the OS, re-install Oracle Cluster Ready Service and re-done Oracle 10g R1 -> R2 instance upgrade, everything seems to be working again... but still.. that's scary when I know for 99.9% sure that I'm the only one rooted on the box...

Other weirdos: can't get Oracle ASM instance to connect to Cluster Manager even if $ORACLE_HOME/bin/ocssd.bin is running after $ORACLE_HOME/bin/localconfig reset ... what makes dbua working and NOT working? Acronis TrueImage Echo Server would give read error when I use 'trueimagecmd --partition: --filename: -create' to backup raw partition that contains SYSAUX, SYSTEM tablespace under Oracle ASM ...

What's new in Princeton and Central NJ - WINLAB (www. winlab.rutgers. edu) and Planet-lab (www.planet-lab.org)

WINLAB Looks Ahead (& Up) to Wireless Future

power outage. corrupted superblock and group descriptor on db server root file system. tried "mke2fs -n /dev/sda1" e2fsck with an alternate superblock didn't work. looked at "dumpe2fs /dev/sda1|more"...

This worth a try:

dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/data/sda1.bak.dd

mke2fs -S /dev/sda1

reading RedHat ext3 mailing list archive

also how to make customized bootable CD from running system?