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iPhone – say hello! to NetApp

It's only natural for us to do this. We have strategic business relationships with both Apple and NetApp and we tend to like both of these technologies. A result of the IronBrick, Apple and NetApp synergies is NTAPCalc. It is a simple little app that allows a NetApp administrator/customer/account manager to quickly do the following on their iPhone: Calculate Raw and usable capacities by selecting drive sizes, number of drives, snapshot reserve percentage, raid group size and hot spares Provides pie chart of the same depicting the distribution of those capacities Provides handy recommendations while sizing We hope that this is the ...

Automated OSX backups with launchd and rsync

In this article, we'll take a look at using Leopard's launchd and rsync to develop a automated data backup methodology. In addition to rsync and launchd, we will also integrate Bernhard Baehr's SleepWatcher utility. In our environment, we use NetApp filers to host our network shares and are using CIFS network shares. However, with NetApp and Mac OS X, those file shares could be NFS, just as well. This will also work with your AFP shares. Components launchdlaunchd is Apple's (not-so-new) system startup program. launchd is more powerful than older programs such as init and cron, since it can not only start ...

Integrating Leopard Autofs with LDAP

In the two-part series titled "Autofs goodness in Apple's Leopard (10.5)", we took a detailed look at Leopard's automount, autofs. In this article, we will look at the integration of leopard's autofs with LDAP. There is not a lot of documentation from Apple on it, and when I got down to do the work, it took a bit of trial-and-error on my part. First off, Leopard's autofs DOES work with LDAP. Second, we are also looking at a little bit of hardcoded application from Apple, ergo not very flexible. Third, the integration of Mac OS X into LDAP is ...

Drupal Profiles with Active Directory Integration

Recently, we were asked to provide a mechanism on our intranet that will allow our users to fill out their profiles for others to see, search and make connections. Since our intranet is built using drupal, we set out to look for a way to see how this can be done. This post is an attempt to document our methodologies for setting this up. The profile pages that we have built depend heavily upon the full featured user profile, authored by Michelle @ Shell Multimedia, with heavy modifications made to fit our needs. For example, our profiles do not feature buddylist, ...

filestat, the featured tool on NetApp Tech OnTap

I'm glad to report that the filestat utility that I had released last year has been selected and published as the featured tool in the March NetApp Tech OnTap publication! Grab a copy and check it out!

Wordpress Feature? or a bug?

By rajeev karamchedu on January 20, 2010

Here’s a dome scratcher.
Why does the following happen?
http://rajeev.name/a redirect to the first post that starts with a?
http://rajeev.name/ab redirects to the first post that starts with “ab”…
It’s an auto-magic alphabetically sorted URL expander! I found it to be true on other wordpress sites as well.
Eeet’s a problem. I tink.

Posted in Matters Of Interest | Tagged bug, feature, permalinks, wordpress | Leave a response

Google Chrome Web Developer Tool

By rajeev karamchedu on December 28, 2009

A quick note — If you are using Google Chrome, then a very basic version of Web Developer tools can be accessed by Option (⌥) + Command (⌘) + J and Option (⌥) + Command (⌘) + I. The resulting screen looks like this:

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Configuring Cisco 1000v with NAS datastores

By rajeev karamchedu on September 9, 2009

Should you?
Can you?
The devil is in semantics. We’ve got an environment where the Service Console is configured with a traditional vSwitch and the VMKernel ports for NAS datastores (and VMotion) and are configured on Cisco 1000v. The toe-stepping happens when one of the hosts in the cluster is rebooted. It appears that Service Console [...]

Posted in Technology | Tagged 1000v, Cisco, IronBrick, NetApp, Nexus, NFS, VMware | 7 Responses

iPod crash fix for iPhone 3.0 beta 5

By rajeev karamchedu on May 18, 2009

The long standing issue of iPod application crashing on the beta versions of iPhone continues. As the previous link points out, there is more than one way to fix the problem, depending on the circumstances.
My situation was not fixed by either of those tricks. Again, not too surprisingly, my iPhone started having iPod issues soon [...]

Posted in Matters Of Interest, Technology | Tagged "iPhone 3.0", iPhone, iPOD | 8 Responses

GrandCentral has arrived!

By rajeev karamchedu on April 8, 2009

GrandCentral is now Google Voice. I was able to get my beta account converted over to Google Voice account.
While the migration was manual which I kinda pooh-poohed. I had to export my GrandCentral contacts and import it into Google Addressbook, re-record my name and greeting and re-check my settings.
It would’ve been more of Google-like, [...]

Posted in Matters Of Interest | Tagged "google voice", AJAX, Apple, google, Grandcentral, SMS, wordpress | 1 Response

Matters Of Interest

Technology

xosraw: I like your script and it works fine on a personal computer when backs up to internal or external HD! But how...

wjv: I see Apple has finally gone and documented their AutoFS implementation: http://images.apple.com/bus...

Victor Gonzalez: We would love to purchase some licenses for this app. Please let me know how we can do this. -Victor

Vaughn Stewart: I’d love to grab a copy of this app if you have licenses available

adam m: this example worked great ! To make it work out of the box, replace the CGxxxx stuff at the bottom with this:...

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