Comments for Miscellaneous Ramblings

Comment on Photo privacy by Chupa

Chupa — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:28:10 +0000

Glad to see that you and your expanding family is doing well. Miss you, Stick

Chup

Comment on Photo privacy by Chupa

Chupa — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:24:47 +0000

Just thought I would try to get in touch. Glad to see all is going well with you and your expanding family. Miss you, Stick.

Chup

Comment on My New Daughter by john duesler

john duesler — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:57:53 +0000

What a beaut’ Chris! congrats!

Comment on My New Daughter by Jake

Jake — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:13:05 +0000

Congrats to you both!

Comment on DIY Camera Fun by Jake

Jake — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:51:33 +0000

Very cool…Was able to test it with my Canon XT..Worked like a charm.

Comment on Password Manager for iPhone by alex

alex — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:31:59 +0000

Would you mind sharing which iPhone password apps sync to the Cloud? I’m looking for a global sync app that’s accessible to any PC via a client app, as well as the iPhone. Good luck with your search. Were you able to find anything that suits your needs?

Comment on Password Manager for iPhone by Stick

Stick — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:56:58 +0000

1password is a mac app (on the desktop side)

Comment on Password Manager for iPhone by John Scott Dot Net

John Scott Dot Net — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:51:12 +0000

There was this cool old app called “gnu keyring” for palm devices that I used to love. I wonder if there is a similar app for iPhone. If so, that’s what you should use.

A quick google search for “gnu keyring iphone” reveals there’s an app called “1password” that old palm folks try to port to. Maybe that’s what you want?

Comment on When security takes a backseat to process… by John Scott Dot Net

John Scott Dot Net — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:36:29 +0000

Uh did you get that memo? Yeah. You see, we’re putting the coversheets on all TPS reports.

Yeah. If you could just go ahead and make sure you do that from now on… that would be great.

(Need some hypnosis there, Stick?)

Comment on Fighting with SAN by John Scott

John Scott — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:22:21 +0000

From my prior e-mail – (Thanks for enabling comments!)

1) Qlogic HBAs make it easy to see one path (if you do not desire to do load balancing and you aren’t using EMC powerpath). The ql2xfailover=1 kernel flag given to the qla2xxx module in modprobe.conf provides failover functionality and allows you to see a single device instead of seeing multiples for each LUN. For Linux boxes, I always like Qlogic HBAs regardless of whether I’m using EMC powerpath or not. If you’re using PowerPath, PowerPath will takes care of both making device names that do not change (/dev/emcpower[abc][123]) and takes care of load balancing and failover. EMC recommends against using ql2xfailover=1 for this reason. Powerpath is annoying, however, particularly if you want to use an /dev/emcpowerX1 device as a boot device.

2) I’ve had similar issues to yours with shrinking LUNs. Better to start small. It’s simple to grow a filesystem but shrinking is nasty.

3) Labeling your partitions is a great way to find them again and mount them in the right place, however, if you get a wild hair, just tweak udev to create symlinks for the devices you want to use so that they are always there and always in the right order. A good article about that:

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-assign-static-names-to-scsi-devices.html

This was a good post. Keep them coming! Sysadminery lives at miscellaneous.net!

Your friend,
-John