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Clearcase Branches

I’m so used to making branches in CVS. <br /> cvs tag -b system_test<br /> As the CVS doco states simply, “This splits off a branch based on the current revisions in the working copy”, and these revisions will get assigned the branch name, in this case `system_test’. Simple, powerful enough and quick! But Rational Clearcase is a different beast as I learn it. You have to make your branchtype.

Blogging from Textmate

I’ve started blogging from textmate. And this is one of my recent posts using this app. A friend uses Textmate and swears by it as his main text editor, so here I am using it more often (Thanks Tim). I’m still a dab hand at vim, BUT now that I can blog from textmate, then its looking like my licence will finally get some use. From where I stand using the Mac is soooo much more than just jumping on a computer to bang out some email.

Mac is now UNIX (officially)

I know it has been blogged to death by now, but Mac OSX, my desktop OS of choice, is now officially a standard UNIX. Specifically to the UNIX 03 Product Standard. This confirms it conforms to Version 3 of the Single UNIX Specification. This makes Apple Inc. an official UNIX vendor along with all the other big boys. On the serverside, I will stick with OpenBSD as my personal server OS of choice, with Solaris following close behind.

Solaris Access Control Lists

A quick lesson (for my own benefit as much as yours) in applying Access Control Lists (ACL) on files and directories under Solaris (in this case Solaris 9). To allow group “somegroup” read only access to a folder recursively, you need to set the ACL on EVERY directory and file. This is due to the fact that the Solaris setfacl command does not have a recursive option (do not confuse -r with recurse).

Thermaltake PSU

It is really amaing what a “branded” piece of computer equipment can do compared to its 1/2 price no-name competitor. 3 Years ago I purchased a 400W PSU. It suited the PC system fine, but when I got my new Leadtek Geforce 7 series card, it had a molex power connector on it which required dedicated power direct from the PSU. The bus power is just not up to speed o supply this Graphics Beast to drive all those pixels.

Public Transport Woes

I have to say something about policing transport in Melbourne. I have had a number of occasions where I have called emergency services. Only once were they able to respond, and they let the crazy violent people back onto the train – the crazy people acted normal for the Police and resumed their craziness after they left. In the case of calling 000, it is difficult to advise the operator where you will be (which station, town, etc.

Websphere MQ – inetd or init script

Was implementing an MQ cluster at work recently, and the question arose on setting up init scripts for MQ, specifically the listener, runmqlsr. I was advised that inetd is the usual method for setting up any MQ daemon. However, I read a blog post on A Hursley view on MQ blog, and it stated that launching the runmqlsr seperately, and not using inetd is the now preferred method of having your MQ daemon running.