IFOST: Documents, White Papers and Other Resources
Course Notes
Guides and Essays
Chat Robot
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The Chat Robot answers questions about IFOST's offerings. It's mostly
CyberTwin technology.
Ancient Stuff
- A very large survey of the usage of different kinds of email
server software in the .com.au domain
around July 2001. Spoiler: sendmail was popular once, and Linux was
already dominant.
[TXT]
- A short piece written to review some of the statistics from the
Attrition Mirror. It has a quick
initial analysis of the relative security of the various operating
systems. I intend to expand it to a more complete version soon.
[PDF]
- How prescient was Greg? Answer: not particularly
Here's a Geek's Eye View of the changes ahead in the IT server
market (written in September 2001).
[PDF]
- Our submission to the House of Representative's enquiry into
broadband wireless.
[PDF]
Here is an interesting email exchange about the implications of it.
[TXT]
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Some useful notes to hand out just after a Linux course. These were
written for students on HP's Introduction to Linux Administration course.
[PDF]
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How do I replace a disk that has failed under Linux?
[PDF]
- In 2007 I wrote a course on Architecting Linux-based solutions for HP-UX Architects. It's a bit out of date in
places and I don't think I was as coherent as I should have been.
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We reverse-engineered a hardware repair manual for HP's cell-based
machines, including the Superdome, rp8400 and rp7420 series servers.
This document is guaranteed free of HP intellectual property. This
was the first IFOST Press publication.
Servicing and Supporting Partitionable HP Servers.
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The steps involved in making HP Network Node Manager (NNM) display on a MS-Windows system without paying for expensive X-server software.
- sendmail was one of the
most important pieces of mail-routing software for the internet
for a long time. It is obscure and hard to understand.
Many sites have legacy sendmail installation set up by administrators
long since left.
The student notes and overheads are here:
[PDF -- Notes 589k]
[PDF -- Notes 589k]
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How can I get HP Software Operations (HP Openview Operations)
into a useful state quickly? What off-the-shelf
notification options are there? How do I get around the painful
one administrator limit (i.e. make another opc_adm)?
What about colour-blind operators? What database work should
I be doing on the openvieworacle database instance?
How do I load a MIB file in easily?
(August 23rd 2007)
[PDF -- 152k]
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How do you do a manual backup of the HP Media Operations (MOPS) database?
(November 6th 2007)
[PDF -- 116k]
[Why are these pages so plain?]
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