Solaris 10 Service Management

Under the Solaris 10 system – or the open Solaris as well,
the service management have been upgraded, and there are great new tools to handle the sysadmin
work on the services.

The long detailed explanation can be found here:
Solaris Service Management Facility – Quickstart Guide

But for the fast paced sysadmin – here is the short version

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xkcd – funny system cartoons

Do you ever get this feeling when you see something and you can’t let go of it?

xkcd cartoons got me at least twice that i can think of,
I’m hearing a lot these days about uptime, and this cartoon just hits the spot:

devotion to duty

and another one that i went around with for months, couldn’t get it out of my head:

exploits of a mom

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Searching For All Your Info At Once

In this age when all our information is exposed to the world,
our images are floating everywhere and you don’t know anymore where and what is written about us,
the good people at HoHli have created a new search page that will gather all your information at one place,
showing you details about yourself or anyone else from many social networks and search engines at once.

output comes from:

• Blogger
• Myspace
• Google Images and search
• Yahoo Images and search
• Digg
• Twitter
• and more …

Searching for yonitg information:

A little scary seeing all that information out there.

Go ahead, search for your name at:  http://analyser.hohli.com/people

put a comment here with how much details you found about yourselves that you didn’t know was out there

Technorati Tags: Online Tools, statistics

The 4 Hour Workweek

The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated: Expanded and Updated, With Over 100 New Pages of Cutting-Edge Content.

Yup, I know this blog is about Linux and WordPress and other technical stuff,
but sometimes we just have to stop and take a look at it all and ask why and for how long
I’ve read this book in the last 2 weeks,
and to tell the truth,
It is really doing a change in my life.

I’ve been running around lately, working, working hard, raising my kids (which is hard work as well),
raising my husband
(which has his 36 years birthday today, Mazal Tov baby!!! )

And the work part is the main time consumer of all.

wouldn’t it be amazing, if we could get up in the morning,
eat a lazy breakfast, take the kids to school while taking our time with them -
they are amazing in the morning…..

maybe go to the gym afterwords, maybe visit friends,
and work when we feel most productive and creative?

This book:  The 4-Hour Workweek, Is all about it,
about how to make your work more efficient that your done with it in a couple of hours instead of a whole day,
that you concentrate on the stuff the produce the 80% income and takes 20% of your time, instead of the other way around.

This book is about brining freedom into your life instead of waiting for the promised vacation at the end.

I heartily recommend reading it.

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NFS mount – When Your Shares Go Wrong

From Wikipedia:

Network File System (NFS) is a network file system protocol originally developed by Sun Microsystems in 1984, allowing a user on a client computer to access files over a network in a manner similar to how local storage is accessed.

So basically its a network share, it allows you to share files between remote computers
in the most easy and seamless way, once it was specifically for UNIX servers,
but today NFS is supported over MS servers as well.

Like everything else in Sysadmin life,
when its working its working well, and nobody hears about it,
but what to do when its not working?
Samba debugging for example is easier from that aspect since it has extensive logs for the sysadmin,
NFS doesn’t keep logs, and NFS issues doesn’t show up in the syslog/messages file as well.

But there are tools that allow you to get extensive information about the running NFS process,
shares, statistics, users connected etc :

Technorati Tags: Command line, NFS, samba, Solaris