Obviously the big advantage of Aquamacs is that it visually integrates a lot better with Mac OS X than most of the other Emacs ports out there. Also, for better integration some of the keyboard bindings are changed out of the box, and this is where it falls apart for me. I am using a German keyboard layout on my Mac, which means that I need to use Option-something a lot to get at the special characters needed for programming, like ‘[’ etc. Unfortunately these key bindings have been remapped in Aquamacs, which makes it a little problematic to use.

Yes, I know I can go and remap the keys again but my point is that it works out of the box with the other Emacsen available for the Mac, namely the Apple-supplied port and Carbon Emacs. That is a bit of a pity, but maybe it would be possible to offer ’standard Emacs key bindings’ as an option when installing Aquamacs?

Syndicated via RSS From: http://codeblog.bsdninjas.co.uk/

Get free white papers delivered direct to your inbox from IT Knowledge Hub! Register now for cutting edge webcasts, reports, and white papers in your area of expertise.

Occasionally, I’ll download an image file and want to see what is on it, or make a few changes to it before burning it to CD.

The image file (dd, iso, etc) can be mounted using the loop device. You will need to know the type of filesystem the image uses.

Most Linux/Unix-based OS’s have an application that will help you identify the filesystem type. Debian includes the command /lib/udev/vol_id, SUSE has the same command but in a different location (/sbin/vol_id). If you know how to get this information on a SUN box, please leave a comment for us.

If you don’t have a command that will tell you the filesystem type, you can guess. Most images downloaded from the Internet will be iso9660, Windows filesystems are normally ntfs, Linux are commonly ext2, and Macintosh are udf or hfs.

As a last resort, you can work your way down the list of filesystem types listed in the mount man pages.

After you know the filesystem type, you are ready to mount.
Note: replace <_type> with the filesystem type.

To mount the file livebootcd.iso with write enabled:

mount -t <_type> -o loop ./livebootcd.iso /mnt

To mount an image made from a Windows partition in read-only mode:

mount -t ntfs -o loop,ro,umask=0222 ./evidence.dd /mnt

Post provided by Mary M. Chaddock

Syndicated via RSS From: http://www.mysysad.com/

Get free white papers delivered direct to your inbox from IT Knowledge Hub! Register now for cutting edge webcasts, reports, and white papers in your area of expertise.

You can’t see it. You can’t smell it. But it can be deadly, and may be in your IT organizations’ basement, silently killing your company. It’s called unplanned work, and CIOs and CISOs are losing jobs because of it. Unplanned work by definition is any activity in an IT organization that cannot be mapped to an authorized project, procedure, or change request. Any service interruption, failed change, emergency change, or patch or security incident creates unplanned work, which can come as a high expense for any organization. This paper reveals dangers and provides helpful scenarios and useful information to help you maximize effectiveness in your IT organization, including: Measuring Unplanned Work Quantifying Unplanned Work The Visible Ops Approach to Solving Unplanned Work How Ungoverned Change Effects Unplanned Work Implementing Visible Ops Request Free!

Syndicated via RSS From: http://itknowledgehub.tradepub.com/?pt=cat&page=Infostor

Get free white papers delivered direct to your inbox from IT Knowledge Hub! Register now for cutting edge webcasts, reports, and white papers in your area of expertise.

MS Excel to load invoice batches to Oracle Payables! Even Oracle ADI doesn’t do that, in fact few 3rd-party products do. What to do? Do as Kevin Ellis has done, develop your own in-house invoice batch interface. And if that isn’t enough to pique your interest, how about an interface for keeping your chart of accounts current between production legacy and Oracle systems? He has done that too and he has shared all in this comprehensive ORAtips cover story, discussing custom concurrent program and UNIX shell script development, Oracle Applications set-up and end-user considerations. 

Download White Paper on Invoice Uploads into Oracle Payables

This article was originally published by Klee Associates, Inc., publishers of JDEtips and SAPtips. For training, consulting, and articles on JD Edwards or SAP, please visit their websites: www.JDEtips.com and www.SAPtips.com.

Syndicated via RSS From: http://www.oracleappsblog.com/index.php/weblog/index/

Get free white papers delivered direct to your inbox from IT Knowledge Hub! Register now for cutting edge webcasts, reports, and white papers in your area of expertise.

I have to admit, I have been spoiled or lived in a box not sure which. I have been a Unix Admin for years but most of the time I have been called in to do jobs or handle crisis situations it wasn’t because of the networking infrastructure and most of the places had networking teams that dealt with the network side. Since I am now part of a team that is deploying numerous AIX boxes along with the infrastructure that entails, include networking switches, firewalls, loadbalancers.

I am now learning some cisco networking at work. Being the geek that I am, I decided to take my job home and get some Cisco gear at home. As you can see from my previous post. Luckily I ordered two switches, the nicer of the two arrived 2 days ago and is actually what. I ordered a Cisco Catylst 2950.

Now the question becomes do I order a pair of 2924’s because I have heard from Cisco guys that to really understand spanning tree, you need 3 switches, this is the cheap option, or do I order another 2950 so I can do fast port spanning tree?

I would love to get some cisco gear that has more than 2 gigabit ports but that stuff is way out of my price range, I would need executive sign off ( my wife would have to agree ) to spend that kind of money, and I really can’t justify it. But Now I am starting to get a lot of more modern hardware, that would love to be gigabit connected, Sun Ultra 20, Sun Blade 1500, and the latest a Sun Blade 1000. Not to mention a work laptop, a Beige box amd athlon 5200+ (solaris 10 ZFS/XEN box ) and my son’s new laptop, and too many 100mbit devices to count from Sun sparcstation 5’s to SGI workstations, Ultra 2’s and Sunrays. Of course I have a 8 port unmanaged gigabit switch that is getting close to full in the living room and a fore 2810 managed 24 port 10/100 switch, up to now I just had a couple cables from to the machine room where most of the older stuff lives. Now I feel I need to add a gigabit to the machine room, of course It would be awesome if I could get two managed gigabit switches and do ehterchannel/trunking between the two switches.

Does anyone have recomendations for low cost managed gigabit switches, I hear the HP procurve switches are nice? Not sure how nicely they play with cisco switches but I’m sure they must work together okay.

Syndicated via RSS From: http://uadmin.blogspot.com/

Get free white papers delivered direct to your inbox from IT Knowledge Hub! Register now for cutting edge webcasts, reports, and white papers in your area of expertise.