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Cheffy 2.0 beta now out!!
I’m pleased to announce that we have release the new version of Cheffy, what we’ve been calling internally, Cheffy 2.0. The new version comes with a number of new features, some of which I’ll be detaileding over the coming weeks, but as a headline…
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New VoiceXML/XQuery Demo
I’ve got a new VoiceXML/XQuery article coming out, and IBM have asked that a demo of the service is live. The service is an interface RSS reader – you get to choose the topic and the feed (currently only four static feeds are provided), then it wi…
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Systems Administration Toolkit: Monitor user usage
Do you know what your users are doing? Do you know how frequently people are using your systems? As I explain in the intro: Explore new ways to record UNIX logins and other system activities in a number of different logs, and take advantage of thi…
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System Administration Toolkit: Distributed administration using SSH
System administration and SSH is a topic I’ve covered before (see System Administration Toolkit: Set up remote access in UNIX through OpenSSH), but what I didn’t cover in that article was how you can use SSH as a solution for running commands remo…
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Voice enabling XML, Part 4: Develop a Web search application for VoiceXML
The final part of the four-part series on developing VoiceXML applications, this time covering an interface to an internet search system, is available: In this final article of a four-part series, develop an application that takes VoiceXML as inpu…
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Setting up the new T105
So yesterday I mentioned the new Dell T105 I got on special offer. Setting up Solaris 10 on this new machine is a little more complex than I would have wanted, but it’s now up and running fine. Here’s what I did to get Solaris b81 working: 1. SXDE…
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Acorn, Pixelmator and Iris alternatives to Photoshop
I’ve had Acorn in my list of applications to review for months, and I’ve only just got round to it. I wish I’d got there earlier. Acorn is quick and powerful, and that’s because it employs your GPU to do soe of the processing, and it includes a nu…
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ZFS resource update
I’m getting really deep into ZFS at the moment as I try and work out how best to use it in different environments and how it affects and alters performance on different loads. I’ve across some great ZFS resources, new and old, and blog posts surro…
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Twin 64-bit Opteron’s
I got a really good deal on some Dell servers. The T105’s were on special offer starting at just 99GBP, and even with 3-year support contracts and 4GB RAM I managed to get both for less than 500 GBP (+VAT). That’s a pretty good price for four core…
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Migrating from WSRF to WSRT
If you’ve been reading the main MCslp blog you will know that I’ve been writing a series on writing a grid solution using WS-RT. WS-Resource Transfer is an improved version of the WS-Resource Framework (and the associated WS-ResourceLifetime and W…