Development

Using sudo and redirecting output to a file
Feb 4, 2014

Using sudo and redirecting output to a file

Sudo is a cool tool to have under your belt. I have heard excuses for not using sudo so many times, that if I was given a penny every time I would at least be able to buy myself a coffee.

Categories: Development Linux
Obscure one liner to kill a running an Oracle expdp job
Jan 30, 2014

Obscure one liner to kill a running an Oracle expdp job

How to issue a "KILL_JOB" command.

Categories: Development Oracle
Hotplugging more than 15 scsi devices in Ubuntu
Aug 24, 2013

Hotplugging more than 15 scsi devices in Ubuntu

Today I ran into something that took me a bit to figure out. I could not add new disks to a virtual machine running Ubuntu.

Categories: Development VMWare Ubuntu
Who monitors the monitor?
May 20, 2013

Who monitors the monitor?

How do you know that all virtual machines (VM's) in a VMWare environment is actually monitored in your monitoring system?

No more insane clicking in ESXi - setup your testbed in a minute
Feb 19, 2013

No more insane clicking in ESXi - setup your testbed in a minute

Very often, I find myself in the situation where I have to quickly setup a test environment. In my case that usually means that I will quickly setup a

Categories: Development ESXi VMWare
Alias is silver, function() is gold!
Jan 7, 2013

Alias is silver, function() is gold!

Everyone who has reached the first advancement of any meaningful martial arts, know that in order to get that first level you need to learn some very basic, yet useful techniques.

Categories: Development Unix