Unless you’ve been living in a cave the last few years, virtualization has been firmly burned in your mind by IT marketing material. In particular, taking massive machines and cutting them up into many smaller virtual machines is the solution converged on by much of the industry. I agree! And, here are my notes on how I moved my group into using CloudStack.
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By Clay on October 21, 2012
Many systems have requirements to store configuration parameters. In these systems, a number of choices can be made for how to store that data; sometimes this diversity is painful, however. Choices for storing configuration data are often: Firefox uses and Apple often chooses to use sqlite3 databases1 Python programs often use ConfigParser to process initialization (.ini) […]
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By Clay on August 14, 2012
Today, I ran into an aggravating situation. I found that a command which is set-up by sourcing a script with some alias commands in it. But, the script was failing to resolve the alias. I got alias_command: command not found instead of proper resolution. Even more aggravating, running the type built-in on the alias showed that it existed, and was set as expected, but to no success when calling it.
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By Clay on May 4, 2012
How to access HDFS on a Kerberos secured Hadoop cluster — code and background!
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By Clay on September 26, 2010
Ever wonder when people are actually working? It can be hard answering, “when are people at work?” On a distributed team, with many co-workers and the typical corporate dotted-line type relationships, it is even harder! Inevitably communications on schedule shifts and desired schedules go un-communicated. A few years ago, this occurred for folks I worked […]
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By Clay on August 5, 2010
Oh, how I knew System V packages… Back in the bad old days before ON and slim_source had moved to building only IPS packages, one could pkgadd -d <location> SUNW<package> and easily drop their test code on a machine. Now with the move to IPS packages getting the test code to a machine can be […]
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