Using Subversion with PowerCLI for vCentre operations

I thought I would write a post about using Subversion (SVN)  with PowerCLI for managing changes to Infrastructure, with the aim of reducing report emails in my inbox, and reduce the amount of storage space required to store a set … Continue reading

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Building Subversion and DavSVN on SLES 11 SP2 x86_64 from source

So, the time came where I needed to knock up a quick subversion DavSVN test on a box that was out of support for updates from SuSE, which made it more difficult to grab the rpms,etc that I would need … Continue reading

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Backups using storage level snapshots for DB2 using EqualLogic

This post will detail the steps to go through to allow you to create storage level snapshots using DELL EqualLogic ASM/LE on Linux SLES 11 SP2, and then move the data off onto other storage arrays. – This is handy … Continue reading

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Simple bash one-liner to ping an entire network range

Just a quick post… I knocked this one-liner up as a lazy way of finding out what addresses will answer a ping on a particular address range. I used the ‘seq’ command in Linux to produce the address numbers from … Continue reading

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Integrating LDAP support into XRDP on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

I wanted to be able to setup something along the lines of a Linux Terminal server, to allow remote users the ability to execute long running jobs without the need to have any applications locally on their machines, or stay … Continue reading

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PHP Browser Caching Tutorial – Part One

This is the first part of a two-part article about using PHP to influence browser caching.  This part will cover caching using HTTP 1.0 and the second part will cover caching using HTTP 1.1.

PHP allows you to tell the user’s browser that page content should not be cached.  The following example code can be found in the documentation of the header() function on the PHP website: Read More »

DB2 LDAP configuration on SLES11 SP2

Having problems with YaST wiping out your custom PAM setting for DB2 since upgrading to SLES 11 SP2?? This is a short post detailing a problem I found with the YaST method of managing manual pam/ldap configuration under SLES 11 … Continue reading

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