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Dash of Bash

July 28th, 2010 Tom McClain Comments off

In an effort to remember things that I’ve forgotten, here’s a little ditty to mount/umount a drive on Solaris. The drive in this case happens to be a SAN.

#!/usr/bin/bash
echo -n “Shall we play a game.. enter m or um:”
act1=”m”
act2=”um”
read myax
echo
echo -n “You selected $myax”
echo
if [ "$myax" = "$act1" ]; then
mount -F ufs /dev/dsk/c7t60060160F396110072EA3A6E4BFCD811d0s6 /dassan
echo “Mounted…”
echo
echo “Running df because I am cool like that”
echo “—————————————-”
df
echo “—————————————-”
elif [ "$myax" = "$act2" ]; then
umount /dassan
echo “Running df just to check …”
echo
df
echo
else
echo “No Soup for you”
fi

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May Madness

May 10th, 2008 Tom McClain Comments off

Meanwhile back in Shangri-La..

Things haven’t stopped since my mini vacation.   There appears to be no end insight.  Despite several papers that were due, many “handyman”/”honey dos” were completed.   During my absence, the EdTech Staff collectively breathed life into several projects.  It was a cool “testing” period as the winds of change start to blow throughout the Department, kudos to anyone that helped keep things under wraps.

What do you mean “free”?

I view my various music interests “eclectic.”  One of the eclectic paths leads to the realm of  “alternative” with a slight detour to  industrial music: Ministry, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Skinny Puppy, & NIN.
I was reading a RSS feed this evening from Debian Planet and a contributor Uwe Hermann states “Nine Inch Nails album “The Slip” released under Creative Commons license.”
My immediate response was “Sha!”  I’ve been intrigued with Trent Reznor’s “marketing” … genius … of late intertwining the power of the Internet with media (of course, shattering all of the conventional music industry rules).  Once again, NIN has done again!
I don’t know if the trend will catch on however, the implication/notion is an incredible one, provide all album material on-line for free download ~ interesting ~.

Geek stuff

Other news, Sun has released their new version of OpenSolaris.   I thought I’d give it a whirl…   So as I waited for the download to complete, I dusted off the Solaris 10 installation from the shelf thinking there was a reason why I wasn’t running Solaris 10.   After a 2 hour installation – no comment -.   Things looked promising…  Solaris 10 logo started up..
No USB
No Network
No Sound

NO TIME!!!!
All things considered, it was back to Debian.   I may give the OpenSolaris a tour in a VM or a victim box but things are looking bleak for Solaris in the home lab.  Stay tuned for first impressions..

Enough rambling for now.

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