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Monthly Archives March 2010

Persistent SNMP indexes

In NMS world, the reload of network devices could renumber the indexes of network interfaces in awkward ways. To avoid this renumbering, configure your IOS devices with these commands : snmp-server ifindex persist snmp mib persist cbqos snmp ifmib ifalias long Or is this shall better be called “Persistent SNMP indices” ? Well, now that [...]

Posted 27 March 2010 § IT ‡ Comments (0) °

UNIX/Linux engineer looking for a new contract

As my current contrat will soon come to end, I’m open for a new challenge. I have done UNIX and Linux since a very long time, I even got a Solaris certification a few years ago. I know stuff like Apache, reverse-proxies, NMS (Network Management Systems) aka OSS (Operation Support Systems). I have experience with [...]

Posted 21 March 2010 § IT ‡ Comments (1) °

Quicksilver slowdown, crashes, but fixable

My Macbook Pro was getting slower and unresponsive. Then, Quicksilver started to crash. Thanks to some other blog, I found the clipboard module was trying to store huge clipboard data, resulting in a 930 Mb file. To fix it, stop Quicksilver, remove ~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Shelves/QSPasteboardHistory.qsshelf and restart Quicksilver. My MBP is now fast again.

Posted 08 March 2010 § IT ‡ Comments (0) °

2010 and smartphone calendars still suck

Everyone and his brother is buying a smartphone these days. The venerable agenda vendors like QuoVadis, TimeSystem and friends all thought “we are dead”. But they can rest, as no smartphone vendor has really provided us with a valid calendar system. SyncML was a stupid idea (why peer-to-peer sync ?), and CalDAV is the solution. [...]

Posted 02 March 2010 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) °