http://cinq.com my code Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:47:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have to find where a server nic is connected in the network. I was certain there was a way to know what mac address was on which port but I needed Google to find a good article to show me how to get that information. Once on the switch you ... http://cinq.com/2008/09/08/host-mac-addresses-on-a-cisco-switch/ Until I followed a link from a twitter friend I had never heard of this term. As a small time programmer I am always looking for ways to improve the code that I do and I also look at ways to improve myself as a programmer. Code kata is certainly a ... http://cinq.com/2008/06/26/code-kata/ I was reading an article today about this piece of software and I taught that it was quite interesting. You can see all the parts of a swing application in this swing debugger. For someone like me that is not always sure how all the parts are linked together it ... http://cinq.com/2008/05/06/swing-explorer/ Found a post that explained what was needed to disable ipv6 on our installation of RHEL5. The only thing that we really need is to add a line in /etc/modprobe.conf alias net-pf-10 ipv6 off Simple enough! Ref: http://www.vincentverhagen.nl/2007/06/22/disable-ipv6-on-red-hat/ http://cinq.com/2008/05/05/disable-ipv6-on-rhel5/ We started testing some NIC bonding on our RHEL 5 VM and we will be testing on real hardware soon. The ultimate goal is to add this setup in our kickstart file. We created these files for testing: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0 DEVICE=bond0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp ONBOOT=yes USERCTL=no IPV6INIT=no Added these lines to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth1: MASTER=bond0 SLAVE=yes in /etc/modprobe.conf we added these lines: alias bond0 bonding options ... http://cinq.com/2008/04/23/bonding-nics-in-rhel5/ I found a few documents on the Internet about what I needed to do to rebuild the DVD to integrate my kickstart file. Unfortunately none of the solution had all the needed command in one place for my setup to work so here is my cookbook from the different sources. First ... http://cinq.com/2008/04/14/rebuilding-the-dvd-iso-for-centos-5-or-rhel-5/ It was time for an update. New presentation, new tools to post the content I wanted to put in this site. http://cinq.com/2008/04/08/hello-world/ This piece of software seems quite promising to solve some of the issues that I have on my desk. I would like different computer to integrate a bit better and the main 2 features promise just that: software kvm and shared clipboard. I will have to test Synergy on my ... http://cinq.com/2007/12/27/synergy/ Special effect for Linux is at the Beryl Project. I will be trying this in a VMWare with KUbuntu. May make me switch distro... http://cinq.com/2007/10/23/beryl/ OpenProj is a nice application to do project management. All done in Java so it works on all my workstations. http://cinq.com/2007/10/10/openproj/