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Today when I was trying to destroy old boot environment, I got strange error: # beadm destroy oi-hipster-2013-08-06 Are you sure you want t...

Today I was afraid for my sanity. We have 4 servers, one of them serves as nfs server, 3 other mounts two filesystems from the first. Today...

Solaris userland is rather specific... A lot of utilities misses convenient options from GNU/BSD analogs. E.g., we don't have "elfd...

I was just refreshing my knowledge about filesystems... In FreeBSD it is definately easier to investigate fs behavior. You can just do a hex...

We are deploying new Proxmox servers and decided to try Debian 7 (testing). We had some problems with old platform. In particular, Squeeze G...

There is an "alter system shutdown immediate 'D000'" command to shutdown dispatcher in Oracle. However, how will you launc...

I've just examined PostgreSQL query debug output from the next query : SELECT * from low_paid_emps_r; where low_paid_emps_r is defined...