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December 2005

[28-Dec-2005]
IA64 patch syndication available: I have hacked the code that I use to generate the Alpha patch syndication feeds to also deal with IA64 patches. The feeds are available immediately, although I need to clean up some missing dates in the files. Bear with me for a couple of days... (72 words, 0 comments, 0 pings)

[27-Dec-2005]
Update on SAN issues: The SAN issues we've been having have been narrowed down to either the HBA firmware or a problem within OpenVMS itself. (82 words, 0 comments, 0 pings)

[18-Dec-2005]
SAN problems: I've been a little quiet on the blog here of late as we have been struggling with a number of problems, the first of which appears to be a firmware interaction issue on our SAN. (529 words, 4 comments, 0 pings)

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SAN Design with Brocade Switches: Tricks and traps when implementing a multi cluster SAN solution.
Planning for and installing a GS160: Considering the purchase of a Wildfire system? This article describes the site prep and some partitioning thoughts.
Pros and cons of gigabit ethernet: What factors need to be taken into account when switching to gigabit ethernet?
Reading a traceback dump: How to track down runtime errors in OpenVMS applications code.
Detecting and correcting alignment faults in OpenVMS IA64: How to detect potential alignment fault issues.
DCL coding standards: A personal set of standards for coding procedures in DCL.
Class scheduling: An introduction to class scheduling on OpenVMS.
Login speedups: How to do fast login procedures with 3GLs

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