Monthly Archives: January 2010

AIX 6.1 OS Patches the Easy Way

Summary Patching AIX can be intimidating at first for someone coming from the Windows / Linux world. AIX has capabilities that natively support production quality operations. One of these qualities is that one can install patches on an alternative volume, … Continue reading

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Cacti Install on RHEL 5 or CentOS 5

Introduction Cacti is a great tool to graph performance of the various hardware components of a network. With the use of the yum repository manager, it is very simple to install on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 or CentOS 5. … Continue reading

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Installing DB2 Express C 9.5 on Mac OS X 10.6

OS X developers do not need to use a virtual machine any longer to be able to run DB2 in their favorite development environment. The latest version of DB2 9.5 available for download works on Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6). Continue reading

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Setting up shared VMWare Fusion host folders on CentOS and RHEL guest

Problem How to view folders from the Mac that hosts the VMWare Fusion guest operating system CentOS or Red Hat Linux? Solution First, make sure that the VMWare Tools are installed. That always helps. Next, in the WMWare configuration menu … Continue reading

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OpenVPN write UDPv4: Can't assign requested address (code=49)

To solve the problem, the easiest way is to flush the routes by rebooting. The elegant way however is to shut down the interface connecting the Mac to the Internet, flush the routing table, and bring the interface back up. Continue reading

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Qpid, an AMQP implementation

Joshua Kramer has an article in LJ about Qpid and AMQP. One of the most compelling aspects of Qpid is its cross plaform and cross language capability. Finally there is a message broker that is easy to use and has … Continue reading

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