Monthly Archives: February 2010

Replacing Cisco PIX battery

Posted on February 20, 2010 by Lasse Osterild

Today, while debugging a new 10/10Mbit broadband connection my trusty old Cisco PIX 515E decided it’d had enough or rather the lithium battery did. Bit of Googling didn’t yield any results on replacing it but I remembered that last time … Continue reading →

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XenServer “Midnight Ride” Beta

Posted on February 15, 2010 by Lasse Osterild

The good folks at Citrix have is working on a new release of XenServer codenamed “Midnight Ride”, and a public beta is supposed to surface in March 2010. Some of the new features are, but not limited to: Granular Role-based … Continue reading →

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No more free Sun patches

Posted on February 12, 2010 by Lasse Osterild

Oracle has done it, without a paid support contract you cannot get ANY Sun patches, not even critical security patches. http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-61-203648-1. I don’t believe this is the correct way to do business, sure they stand to make a bit more … Continue reading →

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EMC inq utility

Posted on February 9, 2010 by Lasse Osterild

The EMC inq utility is a sought after little gem, a simple google search will quickly show you where to find it, yet a lot of people seem to struggle. All versions ranging from 4.0.1 (2001) up to and including … Continue reading →

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A Tribute to Sun Microsystems

Posted on February 8, 2010 by Lasse Osterild

For more than 27 years, Sun has led the way in network computing innovation. And while oftentimes taking the road less traveled, our journey has delivered some of the most revolutionary — and evolutionary — ideas, business practices, and products. … Continue reading →

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Compiling Apache HTTP server on OpenSolaris

Posted on February 1, 2010 by Lasse Osterild

This may not come as a surprise to many of you, especially the ones who have used OpenSolaris for a long time, but for myself who have only recently started tampering with the Indiana branch of OpenSolaris it took a … Continue reading →

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