I hit an interesting problem tonight with jumpstart. Or old timeserver has gone away and the jumpstart clients are now going into interactive installs asking for the user to set the time. We rely heavily on automated installs so this needed to be fixed. The solution was obvious I thought. I’ll just set up one […]
Recently I had a discussion with some folks about ways to identify change in a workspace. In particular if there were ways where we could judge the risk associated with changes without needing to know the specifics of the changes or being told by the engineers. In Opensolaris for example there are flag days. These
There is a blueprint available on Patching mirrored systems using live upgrade. This document will take you through the steps needed to create an alternate boot environment and how to patch it. Why bother? Well by using Live Upgrade you can drastically reduce downtime as you are applying patches to a non-running boot environment. You
There was an interesting segment on RTE’s "Capital D" program tonight about the work that Shamrock Rovers do in the community. The video feed is at http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0426/capitald.html The initiative from Shamrock Rovers include providing scolarships for payers to gain 3rd level qualifications. Just in case they dont make millions playing football! Also some schoolkids are