Linux performance tools

March 4th, 2010 Mark No comments
Linux.com has a decent decent article highlighting a some tools for monitoring Linux system performance. You’ll find many, many, many utilities for measuring and improving Linux system performance. The utilities discussed here are chosen because they’re widely available, and provide a g ...
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MRBS memories

February 26th, 2010 Mark No comments
MRBS screenshot by mrbs.sourceforge.netI’ve been using open source software for many, many years now. The very first project I ever contributed code to was MRBS – the Meeting Room Booking System. I’d been tasked by my manager to find a web based system that in-house engineers coul ...
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Thumbnail bug in Arras theme

February 26th, 2010 Mark No comments
I’ve been playing around the with Arras WordPress theme version 1.3.6 – which I really like. You can apply an attribute of thumb with a value of an image URL. This will show an image in post preview on the main page – very nice. The layout has a configuration for showing/not sho ...
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Linux/Clearcase file deletions?

February 26th, 2010 Mark No comments
I had a very strange event recently. A number of directories in an automounted NFS directory were being deleted every couple of minutes. This may be a bug in clearcase that is related specifically to Linux Redhat 4.x and can cause random deletion of files. Gulp! This claims to have been fixed in ...

Nested PVOBS

February 26th, 2010 Mark No comments
If you’ve ever had to pull Clearcase UCM components from one project vob (PVOB) to another, you probably did some hair-pulling the first time you had to do. If you manage a mature environment or have had to integrate a new development team and source code base into your existing one, this IBM ...
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Lotus Notes on Ubuntu 9.10

February 26th, 2010 Mark No comments
If you are having trouble with Lotus Notes 8.5 on Ubuntu 9.1, download these files and copy them into /opt/ibm/lotus/notes. See this page for more information ...
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