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New White Paper Compares SPARC/Solaris to Power/AIX Costs. Guess Who Wins?

One thing that's been clear since the launch of Oracle's new Sun SPARC T5 and M5 systems: it got IBM's attention. Judging from their response, they seem to be... I'm going to go with concerned.

nfsstat

nfsstat can be used to examine NFS performance.

nfsstat -s reports server-side statistics. In particular, the following are important:

  • calls: Total RPC calls received.
  • badcalls: Total number of calls rejected by the RPC layer.
  • nullrecv: Number of times an RPC call was not available even though it was believed to have been received.
  • badlen: Number of RPC calls with a length shorter than that allowed for RPC calls.

Ksplice update for CVE-2013-2094

This is a 0-day local privilege escalation found by Tommi Rantala while fuzzing the kernel using Trinity. The cause of that oops was patched in 3.8.10 in commit 8176cced706b5e5d15887584150764894e94e02f.

'spender' on Reddit has an interesting writeup on the details of this exploit.

Getting Started with PHP Zend Framework 2 for Oracle DB

This post shows the changes to the href="http://zf2.readthedocs.org/en/latest/user-guide/overview.html"
>ZF2 tutorial application that allow it to run with Oracle
Database 11gR2.

Oracle Database SQL identifiers are case insensitive by default so
"select Abc from Xyz" is the same as "select abc from xyz". However
the identifier metadata returned to programs like PHP is standardized
to uppercase by default. After executing either query PHP knows that
column "ABC" was selected from table "XYZ".

Ubuntu install memcached from source

 
Following are steps to install memcached from source:

iptables allow one ip address

 
To allow one trusted IP address to access all incoming packets add following line in iptables-precursor:
iptables -A INPUT -s 192.168.2.2 -j ACCEPT
where 192.168.2.2 is the IP address I would like to allow, change the IP address as per your requirement.
After adding above line run following commands to get it updated:
$ source iptables-precursor

$ iptables-save > iptables

In above commands I used relative pats for iptables-precursor and iptables.

Difference between Swapping and Paging in linux

Difference between Swapping and Paging in linuxSwapping:       

Recover MySQL root password

Recover MySQL root password

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