IT inferno: The nine circles of IT hell
Thankfully, as in Dante’s poetic universe, there are ways to escape the nine circles of IT hell. But IT pro beware: You may have to face your own devils to do it.
Shall we descend?
1st circle of IT hell: Limbo
Description: A pitiful morass where nothing ever gets done and change is impossible
People you meet there:Users stranded by vendors, departments shackled by software lock-in, organizations held hostage by wayward developers
Simple Cloud CRM
Really Simple Systems Cloud CRM is aimed at small and medium sized organisations or departments of larger organisations who want a simple, easy to use web-based CRM sales, support and marketing system. The hosted CRM model is particularly suitable for companies with multiple locations and people who work remotely or at home. With over 5,000 users Really Simple Systems is one of the world’s largest providers of Cloud CRM systems and has offices in the UK and Australia. Customers range from single user to 300 user systems, and include Tumblr, the Red Cross, the Royal Academy of Arts, the British Museum, NHS, the Department for Environment and RSM Tenon as well as hundreds of small and medium sized companies.
In October 2010 the company launched Free Edition, a ground breaking free CRM system for two users.
Information explosion: how rapidly expanding storage spurs innovation
On the other hand, the asymmetrical nature of most broadband solutions available to consumers in the US and Europe and a stagnation in their speed encourages only consumption at the “lower” levels of that stack. Companies that need both the ability to transmit and receive data over distance can usually afford to pay for symmetrical high-speed network links, while consumers (at least in the US) typically can pick from two choices for Internet access—DSL or cable. Both access methods typically provide plenty of download bandwidth for Netflixing and iTunesing and YouTubeing, but comparatively tiny upload bandwidth for sending data (most DSL and cable Internet plans have upload speeds that are less than 25 percent of the download speeds).
This asymmetry of access leads us to a strange place, where most folks have the ability to store and create more amazing things than ever before, while at the same time they lack the ability to quickly and easily share any of those things with each other.
via Information explosion: how rapidly expanding storage spurs innovation.
Install GD Library For PHP5 On CentOS
Install GD Library For PHP5 On CentOS ~ Mattias Geniar.
This needs to be installed for WordPress and is not necessarily installed by default. Gallery might need it as well but since no images have been added since brandylion.com went into its own vm, I haven’t noticed any problems.
Bluefish Editor
Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdevelopers, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages. See features for an extensive overview, take a look at the screenshots, or download it right away. Bluefish is an open source development project, released under the GNU GPL licence.
Bluefish is a multi-platform application that runs on most desktop operating systems including Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS-X, Windows, OpenBSD and Solaris.
Server Message Block
In computer networking, Server Message Block (SMB), also known as Common Internet File System (CIFS, /ˈsɪfs/) operates as an application-layer network protocol[1] mainly used to provide shared access to files, printers, serial ports, and miscellaneous communications between nodes on a network. It also provides an authenticated inter-process communication mechanism. Most usage of SMB involves computers running Microsoft Windows, where it was known as “Microsoft Windows Network” before the subsequent introduction of Active Directory. Corresponding Windows services have names “server” (for a server part) and “workstation” (for a client part).
via Server Message Block – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
How to hot-swap SATA drives in Linux
If you want the drives to be automounted and your automount system uses pmount to do the mounting (pmount allows mounting by a normal user without an entry in /etc/fstab) you may need to edit /etc/pmount.allow. If the drives are seen as non-removable, which SATA hard disks usually are, pmount will refuse to mount them unless you add the device name to /etc/pmount.allow, for example.
echo ‘/dev/sdb1’ >>/etc/pmount.allow
echo ‘/dev/sdc[123]’ >>/etc/pmount.allow
echo ‘/dev/sdd*’ >>/etc/pmount.allow
The first allows one particular partition to be mounted by pmount, the second example permits three specific partitions on a drive, while the third lets through every partition on a drive. Note the use of single quotes to stop the shell interpreting the wildcards.
Fibre Channel
Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) is a transport protocol (similar to TCP used in IP networks) which predominantly transports SCSI commands over Fibre Channel networks.[1][2]
via Fibre Channel – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Despite its name, Fibre Channel signaling can run on both twisted paircopperwire and fiber-opticcables.[1][2]
I still need to know how this is done over fibre.