Monthly Archives: August 2007

Clearcase Branches Solved?

I think I may have stumbled upon the answer. I’m so set in my CVS ways that I though the best thing was to branch the entire top level folder – recursively. What I really was after was a way of setting the configspec on the NEW view I create for the new branch, and

Solaris 9 Kernel Parameters

Following up from the last post, you may be interested in a little reading on Sun’s explanation of the semaphore and shared memory settings for Solaris Kernel parameters, using /etc/system. set semsys:* is for System V Semaphores set shmsys:* is for System V Shared Memory set msgsys:* is for System V Message Queues My personal

Tuning Solaris 9 for MQ V6.0

I was working on a recently built Solaris 9 server with a fresh copy of MQ installed. During application testing, we were getting 2195 errors from our application when establishing more than 3 concurrent connects to MQ. After a day of wasted de-bugging of our application, we put it down to the system, and it

Coffee and Skin Cancer prevention

The Two Beans Worth Coffee Blog at espressocoffeesnobs.com references an LA Times article as stating: In a study done by Rutgers University, NJ, the scientists found that rats could reduce the likelihood of pre-cancerous sun-damaged cells from becoming cancerous by 100% if the rats either exercised or drank caffeine. However, when both the exercise and