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Cute Site Based on Google

February 12, 2010

I just ran into an interesting site goosh.org. Goosh = GOOgle SHell – basically the guy has built a CLI or shell interface to google services. Strangely enough, it gives you a CLI inside your web browser which might be an oxymoron but it’s cute anyway.
It apparently has the ability to access your accounts if you login but I wouldn’t trust my identity to it so be careful.

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Google Analytics Showing Strange Statistics

Google Analytics has been showing me weird numbers since the beginning of February. While it is completely possible that these numbers are correct, it is also hard for me to believe.
Usually, the traffic looks like a rough bell will low traffic on the weekends.
The number of visitors each day is almost exactly the same…

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Sun Oracle Webcast Wrap Up

January 28, 2010

Last night I watched almost the entire 5 hour live webcast announcing Oracle’s strategies regarding the Sun Microsystems acquisition. As a near-evangelist for Sun and Solaris, I’m very happy with the deal finally going through and even happier that most of what Oracle said makes sense to me as a customer.

Obviously, it is easy…

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As I originally blogged, I was hoping to use EMC snapshots to perform server-less/network-less backups…
To make a long story short, Replication Manager is useless for LUNs with ZFS. According to EMC, this won’t change in the near future. PowerSnap also has no support for taking snapshots of LUNs with ZFS on them so basically…

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Making Path Persistent

December 7, 2009

You can make the executable search PATH variable persistent in several ways:

  1. On the system level you can …
  2. On a per user level, or for the user root, you can …
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