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Hewlett-Packard (HP) has released a white paper detailing how SIRVA Inc., owner of Allied and North American Van Lines, used VMware vSphere and HP hardware to reduce their physical server count by 88%.
In addition to the cost savings associated with the drastic reduction in physical servers, SIRVA also managed …
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Recently I was working on some old code. One of my model methods was originally written such that if one parameter was set to the Python None type, a particular set of actions would occur. For some reason, I checked for None like this:
if parameter is None:
do something …Posted on in Programming
As I mentioned the other day, I'm building a RADIUS client in Python for sending disconnect messages to Cisco routers.
One hang-up with the pyrad package is that it requires a dictionary file in order to map RADIUS attribute names to codes and types. In the case of my client …
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I've been working on a RADIUS client in Python that can send a disconnect message (packet of disconnect) to a Cisco router. I'm using pyrad 1.2 for the project.
I ran into this problem pretty quickly:
POD: 192.168.9.9 request queued
POD: Illegal authenticator in POD from …Posted on in System Administration
While doing some testing with Cisco Access Registrar (CAR) 5.0, I noticed that the test user had hundreds of old sessions hanging around:
--> query-sessions /r with-User X
Sessions with-User X for /Radius
Sessions for /Radius/SessionManagers/session-mgr-1:
S432 Key: 04000000000CF660, NAS: NAS.slaptijack.com, NAS-Port: 0, User-Name: X, Time …Posted on in System Administration
Users of Citrix XenServer 5.6 are experiencing a problem where the cdrommon process begins consuming all CPU resources and affecting virtual machine performance. Using 'top' or 'ps auwx' from dom0 shows that the process is consuming 99% or more CPU resources. Users of Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) 0.5 …
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>>> print "".join(" hello world ".split())
helloworld
The key to the above is that split() separates the string on
any amount of whitespace when no separator is specified.
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Engineering firm CH2M Hill recently began moving away from VMware ESX to Microsoft's Hyper-V. CH2M Hill has been using VMware technology since 2005, but recently began the push toward Hyper-V in an effort to increase savings through more virtualization. The engineering firm believes it will save over \$280,000 in …
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In a test lab, we ran into a situation where the connection between our Cisco Access Registrar (AAA) server and MySQL server was timing out. This forced the server to reconnect and resulted in the following errors:
name/radius/1 Error Server 0 ODBC client (DataSource 'my_odbc', Connection 8): SQLExecute …Posted on in Software
Oracle's VirtualBox 3.2.8 has been released. This is a maintenance release that mainly focuses on bug fixes rather than new features. Although I don't think the changes in this release are as prolific as the fixes in 3.2.6, it's definitely worth downloading.
One key feature buried …
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We ran across the following error on a MySQL slave server recent:
mysql> SHOW SLAVE STATUS \G
<snip>
Last_Error: Query caused different errors on master and slave. Error on master: 'Deadlock found when trying to get lock; try restarting transaction' (1213), Error on slave: 'no error' (0). Default database: '<database_name …Posted on in Programming
If you need to debug what queries your WordPress site is making, try adding the
following PHP to your theme:
<?php
foreach ( $wpdb->queries as $query ) {
echo "$query[0]<br />";
}
?>
For this code to work, you need to add the following line to wp-config.php:
define('SAVEQUERIES', true);
After that …
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The situation: A Cisco 7604 with SAMI card is able to send packets from the individual IOS instances running on the SAMI PPCs, but is unable to receive packets.
The hardware: The table below describes the hardware involved.
| Part Number | Description |
|---|---|
| CISCO7604 | Cisco 7604 Router |
| SUP32-GE-3B | Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series … |
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The guys at Google have rolled out a few interface changes for Gmail users. So far, these changes have not been rolled out to Google Apps users.
The Gmail interface has been slimmed down to remove clutter and make it easier to find what you need. The result …
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This is a picture (larger) of a Cisco 7604 with Sup32 and SAMI card. The modules you see here are:
| Part Number | Description |
|---|---|
| CISCO7604 | Cisco 7604 Router |
| SUP32-GE-3B | Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series / Cisco 7600 Series Supervisor Engine 32 with 8 ports Gigabit Ethernet, PFC3B, and MSFC2A |
| WS-SVC-SAMI-BB-K9 | Cisco … |
