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Posts from 2006
Essential investing resources
Over the past few years, I have come across some super useful investing resources. To ensure that I can find these when I need them, I thought I would post them here: Bill Cara on the markets: Great overview of the market. Compound interest calculator: Great place to see the impacts of interest rates over time. Fund Alarm Data Table: Great place to view the risks associated with a fund…
$ read more →Recreating Veritas configurations with vxmake
Last year I wrote an article titled Veritas Volume Manager Recovery Features for SysAdmin magazine. In the article I described how to backup a Veritas configuration to a file with vxconfigbackup, and how to restore it with vxconfigrestore. One thing I didn't touch on was selectively restoring individual volume configurations. This is easy to do, and I wrote the vxvmconfigbackup shell script to simplify capturing the data needed to restore a single Veritas Volume Manager volume…
$ read more →Speeding up wordpress
Wordpress has become one of the most popular blogging engines on the Internet, and has numerous features that make blogging simple and easy. While there are numerous upsides to using wordpress, there is also one major drawback. Wordpress generates each blog entry dynamically from a database, which can cause a considerable drain on computing resources. To get a better idea of just many resources wordpress would consume on a 2GHZ/1GB AMD Athlon server, I decided to run a few tests with the siege web benchmarking utility…
$ read more →Renaming a ZFS pool
While messing around with ZFS last weekend, I noticed that I made a typo when I created one of my pools. Instead of naming a pool "apps," I accidentally named it "app": To fix this annoyance, I first exported the pool: And then imported it with the correct name: After the import completed, my pool contained the name I had originally intended to give it: Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice!
$ read more →Validating SMF manifests with xmllint
I recently created SMF manifests for a few services I support. When I ran svccfg to import one of the manifests, it spit out the following error indicating that it couldn't parse the document: Since the svccfg error message didn't provide the number line that was causing the problem, I decided to run xmllint to see where the problem was: It turns out that when I cut and pasted text into the new manifest, I left out a left bracket and the letter s. It's all about getting your lint on!
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