Random musings

VMware Perl SDK error 'Server version unavailable..'

Whilst working with the VMware Perl SDK this morning I came across this error:

Problems installing DBD::mysql on OS X Snow Leopard

After a colleague showed me the excellent MySQL Workbench the other day I thought …

Patching a live Solaris 10 system with LU, ZFS, and PCA

Sun have done some work in recent times with liveupgrade - the last time I looked at it, a …

Stuck as 'scheduled' Wordpress posts

I recently edited a post on a Wordpress blog and discovered that trying to change the …

rm -rf on Solaris ZFS filesystem doesn't remove directories

This is one of the weirdest problems I’ve had for a while. On one of the servers I …

About Me

I’ve spent over a quarter of a century working in Information Technology. Throughout that …