Some people just know how to write better,
I’ve read this blogger – http://blog.cubeofm.com/
He doesn’t exactly talk about how to make money of the internet,
although he had mentioned he is making a nice sum of money out of a few internet based projects,
he does talk about some of the methods he uses.
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 
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
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:
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
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.
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 :
Description |
Command |
| see what the machine is exporting | SunOS: # exportfs Solaris: # share |
| Print the list of shared file systems | showmount -e server_name |
| Print the list of all clients mounting a directory from the questioned server | showmount -a server_name |
| Print the directory and all the clients that are mounting it curretly – from within the nfs server | dfmounts |
| print the nfs netwrok statistics | client side: nfsstat -c server side: nfsstat -s |
| To see that nfsd is responding | rpcinfo -T udp crimson nfs |
| To see that mountd is responding | rpcinfo -T udp crimson mountd |
| To see that lockd is responding | rpcinfo -T udp crimson nlockmgr
rpcinfo -T udp crimson llockmgr |
This is going to be a praise post for gapminder.com
I’m going over the data at the site and its amazing stuff,
the main page has lots of statistics which is shown in a new way,
the gapminder app shows the data at what i think is a 4 dimension way,
it shows x and y axis stats, and another axis represented as the size of the balls in the demo,
and how they grow over the 4th dimension – time.
Amazing stuff.
This is the main stats app:
you can see the advance of the bubbles over the x and y axis,
the z axis is represented with the balls size,
and its all advancing in time.
this default presentation shows Life expectancy over income per person, over population size.
wonderful demo.
This great demo shows you the connection between women age at marriage and the amount of kids they have,
on of the things this tool does best is break myths.
I was under the impression that in Europe – Sweden for example, the marriage age went down,
and with it the number of kids in the family,
but from this graph you can simply see that the number of kids in a family went drastically down over the last 100 years, but the marriage age went drastically up only in the last 30 years,
ans the same behavior can be seen for the US as well.
Now for the good news.
you cannot upload your own stats to the gapminder app directly,
but Google supplies a very similar tool through its Google documents apps.
Its called motion chart and on the gapminder site you can read the short or the long explanation to how to use the tool, after testing it the outcome can be inserted into any web page and it looks something like this:
I’m still exploring this Google motion chart app,
and my main concern is that it can only be embedded in a live web page,
I still need to find a way to have this presentation as a file on my laptop, to show even if I’m not connected to the net -
If anybody knows how to do that – leave a comment here please
Why is my site slow?
Why is my Bounce Rate so high?
How to improve my site’s performance?
These are some of the questions bothering web masters and site owners all the time,
here are some tools and readme’s that will:
so lets start with online freeware tools and external web site test tools.
Who is watching the watchman?
first thing to check – are you getting the accurate statistics from your site?
is your Analytics account configured well?
are you even really using one?
SiteScan™ is a diagnostic tool from EpikOne that verifies if your Google Analytics (GA)
Tracking Code is installed properly on your website.
This scan will go over each page and verify that the Google Analytics code is embedded correctly to each of your page, this can help you diagnose if your bounce rate is high because the Analytics cant see their next click,
or maybe you should really work on your site design.
From the firebug download page:
Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page..
This is the basic tool to verify your code as it seen from the browser side,
you can click a specific element on your page, and get a list on the right pane window of firebug,
of all the css code that is effecting this element, even if the code span multiple css files.
the yslow tool from yahoo will go through the elements of your page,
and by using a preset list of rules, it will tell you which parts of the website you should fix,
and what to fix.
The yslow firefox plugin needs the firefox firebug installed first.
If you want to learn more deeply on the reasons behind each of the testing rules yahoo though about you can read the very informative document from yahoo about “Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site”
from the AOL web page test:
Pagetest allows you to provide the URL of a webpage to be tested. The test will be conducted from the location specified and you will be provided a waterfall of your page load performance as well as a comparison against an optimization checklist.
