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July 2007
From SysOp 31 Jul > The August edition of Question and Answers from SysAdmin Mag covers solving a PHP syntax problem, recommends tools for wiping Solaris disks, and shows how to merge files without sorting the data.
From SysOp 30 Jul > The OpenSolaris Portal is available in French, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Polish, Spanish, and Hindi. For more information and to participate in these communities, please see OpenSolaris Project: Country Portals.
From SysOp 27 Jul > This article on installing and configuring the Sun Java Identity Management Suite has been updated for the Solaris 10 release for use with Solaris Zones and Service Management Facility.
From SysOp 26 Jul > Source code for the emlxs driver from Emulex has been posted on OpenSolaris. The emlxs driver controls the operation of Emulex Fibre Channel adapters in the Solaris OS. It is the first source code for an FCA driver posted to OpenSolaris.
From SysOp 25 Jul > Find out to set up the Greenplum database on the Solaris 10 11/06 release. The open source GreenplumDB is a parallel, clustered implementation of PostgreSQL for applications such as data warehousing.
From SysOp 24 Jul > 4669 apps are currently available for Solaris on SPARC, and 3062 are currently available for Solaris on x86/x64. For a complete list, visit BigAdmin's Solaris application list.
From SysOp 23 Jul > Feel like a mere mortal when you're trying to configure secure, remote portal access? These solutions to common portal server configuration issues will make you feel superhuman instead.
From SysOp 20 Jul > Friday, July 27th, 2007, is the 8th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. On this special international day, give your System Administrator something that shows that you truly appreciate their hard work and dedication.
From SysOp 19 Jul > OpenSolaris has opened up the Hindi version of the community portal. India is already showing a high rate of adoption for OpenSolaris, and this portal aims to further fuel the rate of growth of OpenSolaris in India.
From SysOp 18 Jul > A BigAdmin reader sent in steps for increasing the size of a file system using the Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM).
From SysOp 17 Jul > You can improve performance and optimize cache performance for Sun Connection's satellite deployment architecture in your environment. Here's how.
From SysOp 16 Jul > Check out this new article on Sun StorEdge SAN Foundation Suite (also known as Leadville). Find out about useful tunables to help you optimize for performance and failover.
From SysOp 13 Jul > The SysAdmin Mag article The Best Guides for Managing Information Security reviews several freely available documents that can help with managing IT security.
From SysOp 12 Jul > Make Oracle even more unbreakable. Get step-by-step instructions for setting up Oracle Database 10gR2 RAC with the Solaris 10 11/06 OS, Sun Cluster 3.2 software, QFS 4.5, and Solaris Volume Manager.
From SysOp 11 Jul > In the July edition of Question and Answers from SysAdmin Mag, Amy Rich describes how to set up a serial console, suggests a fix for a buggy real time clock, and explains slave ptys.
From SysOp 10 Jul > Dirk Grobler has made lots of updates to his cookbook for a demo using the Sun Virtual Desktop Access (VDA) Kit for VMware.
From SysOp 09 Jul > Don't miss Sun Developer Days 2007: July 16 in Thailand, and July 18 in Singapore. Interactive sessions will cover hot topics such as Open Source and Web 2.0.
From SysOp 06 Jul > Sun Cluster 3.2, which keeps your systems and data available during catastrophic failures across your local, regional, and global sites, now has a hub dedicated to its system administrators.
From SysOp 05 Jul > Help us write an interoperability resource center for sysadmins. We're digging up as much as we can get from Sun, but if you have any knowledge, tech tips, links, software, whatever, send it to us. If we can use it, we'll list you as co-author. And of course you'll get BigAdmin goodies. Thanks!
From SysOp 03 Jul > Need help troubleshooting with Sun Java System Web Server 7.0? This tech tip shows the configuration you need for directory listing and how you can give both authenticated and unauthenticated users that access.
From SysOp 02 Jul > Trying to manage communication systems that have thousands or millions of users? This article can help you set up a two-node, asymmetric, high availability cluster for Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.3 with Sun Cluster 3.1 software.
 
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