Riaan's SysAdmin Blog – Page 20 – My tips, howtos, gotchas, snippets and stuff. Use at your own risk!

MySQL Sort Strings Like Numbers

There are a lot of articles out on the web that have suggestions around sorting a string like a number.

Since I have to go research this every time I need it, I am jotting down a little how to.

Sometimes you don’t have a Solaris IPS local repo and just want to update to a newer SRU (Support Repository

This is an update post to making an Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) OS work with ZFS root volume. Mostly the

Well kind of… When you are used to working in Python or any real language then Bash arrays are pretty

In Solaris 11 package management got a lot better and is almost as good as APT in the Linux world.

Most of the time when you are forced to access a system through an intermediate hop it is fairly trivial

Sometimes you need to pass a password or even just a string on the command line which you would rather

Following is my notes on several Solaris 11 procedures. I just bunched it together but you may just need one

I generally prefer installing server with a very minimal footprint and just add what is necessary. Think small templates etc..