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At least I'm not the only person being paid beans to manage myself and the 5 departments I performs all essential functions in ;) This Saturday's post is from a pretty interesting site dealing with all things Linux. It goes by the name of reallylinux.com. This piece, that I found on there, interested me because, especially in dubious economic times like we find ourselves in these days, I'm often amazed at the sheer amount of diversity and depth of experience employers seek to acquire for less-than-bottom dollar.

AIX? Yes, we remember to cover it every once in a while ;) Today we're going to go back to the AIX well (which we haven't visited since our fairly-old post on working with AIX LVM. That post links back to a bunch of other posts in the series, but it "has" been about 3 months since we've touched on the AIX OS, which is grossly disproportionate to the amount of attention Solaris, Linux and Open Source Software get. Perhaps, someday, I'll work on it enough that I'll feel more comfortable digging into its guts. ...figuratively, of course ;)

Solaris 10 zfs root filesystems in zones have gotten more robust and much more! Before anyone starts phoning in, I do realize this is not "brand new" :) It's just brand new to me and the place I work. Now that we're starting to pull in some of those Mx000 Series Boxes, we're finally up to date on Solaris 10! Plus, I'm sure it's patched to the gills ;)

This Linux is so darned small, I can't believe the name ;) Today, we're going to walk though installing it on your bootable hard drive. Sure, sure, it defeats the principal of the whole thing, but you can always just slice up two tiny little partitions and have DSL as a backup for your other OS, which may or may not completely self-destruct at any moment. Plus, it's a great idea when all you've got to work with is an old machine that won't run anything else!

Not another of our grab-the-web script, but an actual GNU project :) Well, it's been a long time since we came out with our bash script for command line language translation, and we've finally gotten our head's out of the figurative bowl of spaghetti and found a great online project that already handles this sort of thing. No problem there, of course. If there really is more than one way to skin a cat, you need to know all those different ways or you'll end up skinning your cat the same way over and over ;)

Interesting facts, questions and puzzles for every day of the year! This week's Monday Linux/Unix bash shell script is another chapter in our book "Never ever leaving the CLI ever" ;) Previous entries you may be interested in include our posts on Accessing the International Dictionary, checking out the world's weather, spewing out famous quotations on pretty much any subject, doing encyclopedia lookups, accessing the online Thesaurus, translating between different languages and, of course, using the online dictionary.

Keep up to date on the latest funny stuff that may or may not have happened :) This week, I ran across an old joke news article regarding an issue that we don't seem to hear too much about anymore: Music copyright infringement on P2P networks.

Here's a little something quirky to start the weekend off. Yes, it "is" yet another spinoff on the ubiquitous "PC Mac" Commercial-"PC Mac Linux"-jokes, but it's got a neat little twist. You'll especially dig it if you're a big "South Park" fan. I'm in and out on that show (likes vs. dislikes equals no opinion on it whatsoever ;), but I still thought this video was pretty clever.

The Headless X-Server Rides! Rides, Rides how he rides. Sorry -- sourcing The headless horsemen and the Dead Kennedy's for some reason ;) Today we're going to throw out another Linux tip somewhat related to networking. Or, more correctly, we're going to throw another quick tip out there ;) Today we're going to look at setting up a headless X Server. It's not quite as difficult, or as scary, as it sounds.

A handy chart to keep track of what init script run when you type your favorite command to change Solaris run levels. Today's post harkens back to an earlier post we did on clearing up some common misconceptions about Solaris run levels. That post took care of going through the in's and out's of what the differences between boot, reboot, init, shutdown, etc, all mean and has a lot of good practical examples to demonstrate each point.

Run with the puppies or stay behind to defend what isn't there anymore ;) More than a few people wrote in to let me know about other interesting "live" distro's of Linux after our post on using LinuxDefender Live CD to Fix NTFS problems ran. I've been a bit busy with my son, now that he's started school and isn't completely exhausted at the end of the day (like I always am ;), but I will post each and every comment I received (at least, with the consent of the commenter's) as soon as I can.

Iconv makes character set conversion easy. Remembering all of your character sets can still be hard. Today's topic was obliquely referenced in yesterday's post on using the online multilingual dictionary from the Bash CLI. Yes, after I woke up around 1 am and thought about it, the results did seem odd. It turns out, when I went to the page, that the multilingual dictionary on reference.com is actually house within a frameset under the online Thesaurus. My belated apologies for getting the name incorrect, although, if you think about it, it's not even a multilingual dictionary (not really).

Impress your friends with fancy alternative foreign words for the banal English ones you use everyday ;) Today's Linux/Unix bash shell script is follow-up in our (must-almost-be-ending) series of posts on Linux and Unix Bash shell scripts to keep you from having to switch to your browser ;) The last one we did was an Updated World Weather Checker. To keep up with this list of scripts that keeps on growing, check out our other bash script posts on spewing out famous quotations on pretty much any subject, doing encyclopedia lookups, accessing the online Thesaurus, translating between different languages and, of course, using the online dictionary.

Why just say what you mean, when you can be convoluted and misleading? ;)

Slice your way through corporate boneheads who have the nerve to call you a geek on your way to the finish ;) his week's trolling for laughs went fairly well. I find that some jokes are timeless on the Internet (What if MS built a "Name Of Something/Anything Here," and the like). Although, if you just continue to follow the flow, you'll eventually end up somewhere that could get you fired if you check it out at work ;)

Improved version of our Bash CLI Weather script to get your world forecast! We're back from yesterday's insanity (you called my bluff and I hope my response was satisfactory ;) and, yeah, I wasted my entire evening watching the Vice Presidential debate and then making the mistake of discussing it with people who didn't agree with me. Politics and Religion... When am I going to learn? ;)

Did you ever notice that sometimes things are just slightly to the left of where they're supposed to be? If you're a regular reader ( or even a slightly irregular reader ) of this blog, you may have noted that from time to time I'll, tongue in cheek, make reference to, one day, eventually writing a post that basically says nothing, goes nowhere and ends flat, leaving you feeling like you bought another pet rock.

The simple way to find your Fibre WWN's On RedHat Linux. Today's post should be nice and simple. Maybe even short... yeah ;) This is a bit of a follow-up on a post we did a long long time ago regarding Linux networking tips. It's quite a bit more specific, but remains true to the spirit of that post (from December 2007, which, still, seems like it was just last year ;)

How minor device numbers can affect disk sharing within a Veritas Cluster! Today we're going to look at an issue that, while it doesn't happen all that often, happens just enough to make it post-worthy. I've only seen it a few times in my "career," but I don't always have access to the fancy software, so this problem may be more widespread than I've been lead to believe ;) The issue we'll deal with today is: What do you do when disk groups, within a cluster, conflict with one another? Or, more correctly, what do you do when disk groups within a cluster conflict with one another even though all the disk is being shared by every node in the cluster?

Not only will you not have to open the window, now you don't even have to open the browser window to find out the weather ;) Today's Linux/Unix bash shell script is probably not the last follow up to the growing stable of scripts we've written to mine the knowledge on tap online. Today's info is grabbed from WeatherBug.com. If you missed any of the others scripts we've jammed out, you can still find them in our older bash script posts to spew out famous quotations on pretty much any subject, do encylopedia lookups, access the online Thesaurus, translate between different languages and, of course, the use the online dictionary.