On December 3rd SUSE announced it no longer supports LibreOffice as part of its core business. This doesn\’t come as a surprise since LO is a pretty beefy environment by itself and requires some significant time and effort for qualification and ongoing support for customers who have bought this from them.
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Unless you were in hibernation mode the last few days or were snorkelling somewhere in the middle of pacific you most likely have noticed that Microsoft have swallowed Nokia for a whopping 7.something billion dollars. For those who have kept their eyes open for the past few years you would have noticed this was more
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As an engineer dealing with storage I do get a hell-of-alot of info in either binary, hex, octal or decimal format. It\’s always a PITA to convert these to human readable format. So i cooked up some bc functions and use these as a function in bash to beat the time wasted firing up the
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It may come to no surprise that if you want to rewire a country the size of Australia it\’ll take a while. This means that the majority of internet connections is still on ADSL or ADSL2+. The outback is in really bad shape and people over there are relying on satlinks or wireless. This in
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Many of you have used and managed fibre-channel based storage networks over the years. It comes to no surprise that a network protocol primarily developed to handle extremely time-sensitive operations is build with extreme demand regarding hardware and software quality and clear guidelines on how these communications should proceed. It is due to this that
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So this morning I uploaded my proposal to T11 (13-348v0) in order to get the ball rolling to get it adopted in the FC-LS-3 standard. (That would be awesome). Obviously the task to get things done in a very stable protocol which is known for some serious backward compatibility is not an easy undertaking. I\’ve
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Fibre-Channel is still the predominant transport protocol for storage related data transmission. And rightfully so. Over the past +-two decades it has proven to be very efficient and extremely reliable in moving channel based data transmissions between initiators and targets. The reliability is due to the fact the underlying infrastructure is almost bulletproof. Fibre-Channel requires
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Do you get nuts about these user-names and passwords you need to remember across all these different systems, platforms and applications. LDAP or RADIUS is your friend. When you make a mistake however it can also be you biggest enemy. Brocade offers you the option to hook up a switch to LDAP or RADIUS for
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Very often I get involved in cases whereby a massive amount of host logs, array dumps, FC and IP traces are taken which could easily add up to many gigabytes of data. This is then accompanied by a very synoptic problem description such as \”I have a problem with my host, can you check?\”. I\’m
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I use Google Eearth fairly regularly for all sort of things. I like searching places around the world and looking at additional info from for instance National Geographic. It is therefore most annoying that whenever Google decides to change something GE starts to crash for whatever reason most likely due to conflicts between libraries. The
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