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December 2012

[21-Dec-2012]
RMS hack: After converting a file that's accessed 24x7 to add an alternate key, a number of programs started crashing because the programmer's testing had failed to uncover that the field that was turned into an alternate key had its value updated under certain conditions... and the FDL used to convert the file specified no changes for that key. And how we recovered. (687 words, 0 comments, 0 pings)

[17-Dec-2012]
Cable management: Recently, I talked about looking for a cable database, and ended up settling for RackTables. Since then, I've ended up becoming a very big fan of this Open Source freeware product. (167 words, 0 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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