Higgs boson spotted at LHC???

http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/

Rumored that the LHC spotted the Higgs boson at 115-120GeV where theory predicted...

Lets see if this is true/verified in the coming weeks

Live Partition Mobility

Here's a demo I've done of a 5 min Live LPAR Mobility (think vmotion for POWER LPARs)

Its a running AIX 6.1 LPAR moved on the fly between 2 POWER7 frames: 5mins, not one lost ping!! (longest delay to any ping I got was ~78ms)

remote HMC LPM

(remote HMC - not both frames under the same HMC this time)

CentOS 5.6 get ext4

Centos 5.6 came out recently (not CentOS 6 - RH drip feed this stuff...)

2 points of interest

- ext4 filesystem
- php 5.3

RH is now a billion dollar company not bad for selling 'free' software

Couple of nice radiation dosage charts

Due to the log scale required to show this (or sound) its hard

http://xkcd.com/radiation/

XKCD have do a bossjob of it!!!

and to a lesser extent....

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/radiation-dosage-chart/

does not really show the logarithmic nature as well as the little coloured boxes

nice azure v ec2 vs google app engine at stackexchange

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/64727/windows-azure-vs-amazon-ec2-vs-google-app-engine

Move over RRDtool?

Graphs look a little SPLUNK!-ish

http://graphite.wikidot.com/

Groklaw

....its over, SCO lost, even floating legal warships on M$ money for 8 years

Google labs page speed

google labs page speed

Maybe developed as a spin off from rolling site speed into pageranks? ( http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/using-site-speed-in-web-search-ranking.html )

This tool analyses a website and give suggestions - facebook.com got a 99/100

my work got a 42/100 and it gave suggestions how to fix

Summary Suggestions for this page: High priority Combine images into CSS sprites Leverage browser caching Medium priority Minify JavaScript Minify CSS Low priority Avoid bad requests Optimize images Minify HTML Specify a character set Specify a Vary: Accept-Encoding header Rules without suggestions

Scripts to web publish HMC managed systems configs

2 Quick scripts (shell & expect) to grab configs off HMCs for managed IBM POWER(aix/linux/vio)systems and format them into a html web page.

Will work where no ssh trust exists (ie Where you cant run mkauthkeys -u lpar2rrd -a 'ssh-dss ....' as hscroot)
If ssh trust exists then the script does not need the hmccli expect script

Script renders HTML to stdout so just redirect eg ./$0 > index.htm

<br />#!/bin/bash <br />############################################################################################# <br /># This script runs commands on HMCs and formats the output into HTML tables to stdout # <br /># CJR Feb/2011 # <br /># -calls hmccli that needs expect and hardcoded RO HMC user # <br />############################################################################################# <br />table() <br />{ <br />awk '/login/||/Pass/{next};!/Server/&&!/hmc/{print}'|sed 's/^/<TR align=left><TH>/'|sed 's/:/<\/TH><TH>/g'|sed 's/.$/<\/TH><\/TR>/' <br />} <br /> <br />for i in 1 2 3 4 <br />do <br /> hmc=hmc$i #hmc1 hmc2 hmc3..... <br /> /data/config/hmccli $hmc 'lssyscfg -r sys -F name' | grep Server > ${hmc}Machines <br /> echo 'HMC='$hmc <br /> for mach in $(<${hmc}Machines) <br /> do <br /> echo '<big>Frame Level CPU</big>' <br /> echo '<TABLE BORDER=1 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=2 WIDTH=90%>' <br /> echo '<TR><TH>'$mach'</TH></TR>' <br /> /data/config/hmccli $hmc "lshwres -r proc --level sys -F configurable_sys_proc_units:curr_avail_sys_proc_units:pend_avail_sys_proc_units:installed_sys_proc_units --header -m $mach" |table <br /> <br /> echo '<TABLE BORDER=1 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=2 WIDTH=90%>' <br /> echo '<TR><TH>'$mach'</TH></TR>' <br /> /data/config/hmccli $hmc "lshwres -r mem --level sys -F configurable_sys_mem:curr_avail_sys_mem:pend_avail_sys_mem:installed_sys_mem --header -m $mach"|table <br /> echo '<big>Frame Level Memory</big>' <br /> <br /> echo '<TABLE BORDER=1 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=2 WIDTH=90%>' <br /> echo '<TR><TH>'$mach'</TH></TR>' <br /> /data/config/hmccli $hmc "lshwres -r io --rsubtype slot -F unit_phys_loc:phys_loc:lpar_name:description --header -m $mach"|table <br /> echo '<big>Frame Level Slots</big>' <br /> <br /> echo '<TABLE BORDER=1 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=2 WIDTH=90%>' <br /> echo '<TR><TH>'$mach'</TH></TR>' <br /> /data/config/hmccli $hmc "lshwres -r proc --level lpar -F lpar_name:curr_min_procs:curr_procs:curr_max_procs:pend_min_procs:pend_procs:pend_max_procs:run_procs --header -m $mach"|table <br /> echo 'LPAR Level CPU</big>' <br /> <br /> echo '<TABLE BORDER=1 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=2 WIDTH=90%>' <br /> echo '<TR><TH>'$mach'</TH></TR>' <br /> /data/config/hmccli $hmc "lshwres -r mem --level lpar -F lpar_name:curr_min_mem:curr_mem:curr_max_mem:pend_min_mem:pend_mem:pend_max_mem:run_min_mem:run_mem --header -m $mach"|table <br /> echo '<big>LPAR Level Memory</big>' <br /> <br /> done <br />done <br />

Here is an expect script hmccli that it can call

<br />#!/usr/bin/expect <br />############################################################################################### <br /># sshs to an hmc and runs a hmccli command via expect where no ssh trust exists CJR 11/02/2011# <br />############################################################################################### <br />set timeout 30 <br />if {[llength $argv] < 2} { <br />send_user "Missing arguments - I need hmc number and hmccli command.\n" <br />exit 1 <br />} <br />################################## <br />set user hmcviewer ############## put your own <br />set pass @&$6gsioe= ############## put your own <br />################################## <br />set cmd [lindex $argv 1] <br />set hmc [lindex $argv 0] <br />spawn ssh $user@$hmc <br />expect { <br /> "> " { } <br /> "$ " { } <br /> "assword: " { <br /> send "$pass\n" <br /> expect { <br /> "> " { } <br /> "$ " { } <br /> } <br /> } <br /> "(yes/no)? " { <br /> send "yes\n" <br /> expect { <br /> "> " { } <br /> "$ " { } <br /> } <br /> } <br /> default { <br /> send_user "HMC Login failed - check user in $0\n" <br /> exit <br /> } <br />} <br /># Run command passed as arg <br />send "$cmd \n" <br />expect { <br /> "> " {} <br /> default {} <br />} <br /> <br />send "exit\n" <br /> <br />expect { <br /> "> " {} <br /> default {} <br />} <br />

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