HOWTO: Repair a broken Ext4 Superblock

This has happened to me a few times, and it’s not a nice problem to find yourself in. You computer won’t boot, all your filesystem checks tell you you’ve a bad superblock, but you cant seem to find how to…

History of the ETA 7750 and TAG Heuer

The ETA 7750 movement, also known as the TAG Heuer Calibre 16, is perhaps the most successful automatic chronograph movement ever produced. While it has become fashionable to regard the 7750 as a generic, “common” movement, the calibre is…

Oracle AWS report

oracle@xxxx01a:/oracle/app/product/11g/db/rdbms/admin> sqlplus / as sysdba SQL*Plus: Release 11.1.0.7.0 – Production on Thu Sep 5 14:36:04 2013 Copyright (c) 1982, 2008, Oracle.  All rights reserved. Connected to: Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.7.0 – 64bit Production With the Partitioning, Oracle…

Hyperic HQ installation

Create user hyperic with home directory [root@drash ~]# useradd hyperic -m -b /home/ -p password Execute hyperic installer script [jandra@drash ~]$ Unpacking JRE to temporary directory /tmp/jre Please ignore references to missing tools.jar Unable to locate tools.jar. Expected to…

VMware installation on Fedora 20

Download vmware vsphere distro https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/evalcenter?p=free-esxi5&lp=default Source: Untart iso image and execute vmware-install.pl [root@drash vmware-tools-distrib]# ll total 472 drwxr-xr-x. 2 jandra jandra 4096 Aug 17 19:51 bin drwxr-xr-x. 2 jandra jandra 4096 Aug 17 19:51 doc drwxr-xr-x. 5 jandra jandra…