PVMe supports PVM, but its internal structure is completely new. As it runs on a PVMe homogeneous platform (The IBM 9076 SP2), many operations are simpler. The following are the outstanding differences between the structure of the PVM and IBM AIX PVMe. PVMe does not interact directly with TCP/IP to implement data communication between processors. […]
A vulnerability in IBM AIX 5.x and 6.x has been found which could be exploited by a local attacker to access sensitive information.The vulnerability is caused by a bug in the ‘at’ (/usr/bin/at) as it does not limit the privilege to read certain files (It has root permissions). This could be exploited by a local […]
Cheat sheets are a great way of learning as well can be a great reference for experienced users. Below are some of popular IBM AIX Cheat Sheets which we believe can be useful. AIX QuickSheet AIX Commands Cheat Sheet AIX Jumpstart for UNIX Professionals AIX Cheat Sheet Please share with us your favorite AIX Cheat […]
Cheat sheets is a great way of learning for new concepts, but they are invaluable when trying to learn command line for Linux. Below is a great collection of Linux Command Line Cheat sheets: UNIX/LINUX REFERENCE CARD The Humble Linux Cheat Sheet DOS to Linux Cheat Sheet Evelyn’s Linux Cheat Sheet Luke’s Cheat Sheet for […]
The Open Source community should be highly proud of Ubuntu. It seems to be the distro which most worry Microsoft in the Desktop market which is Microsoft Lead market. Actually Microsoft has posted for “Director Open Source Desktop Strategy at Microsoft” at linkedin. I was suprised that Microsoft are looking to hire some one at […]
After the delay for releasing the new distribution of Debian, the mother of many distros, such as Ubuntu, Knoppix, or Lenny (Debian 5.0), it has finally seen the light. Few days ago they replicated the distro to all the mirrors so that you can now celebrate the 15th anniversary of the distribution. Download is available […]
Ah it seems virtualization is what going to unite the largest competing vendors. Yes, I am talking about Microsoft, Redhat, and Novell. Not too long back Novell who purchased SUSE has got in an agreement with Microsoft in regards of Virtualization. So with SUSE making the lead seems REDHAT is going the same route as […]
The next version of Ubuntu, whose development has reached the alpha stage 4, is surprisingly fast compared to its predecessor and Ubuntu 8.10 even without implementing the filesystem EXT4. You can notice the speed difference from the moment you boot up the system. On our test machine Ubuntu 9.04 were able to boot up in […]
Do you ever feel you wish you could answer some of your own questions when you work with AIX® and your System p™ server? Do you ever feel you could save time by not having to call on the support professionals all the time? Well, wish no more. Shiv Dutta discusses some of the AIX […]
Most companies these days restrict their internet access by forcing the usage of web proxy. If your company is forcing a proxy policy & you are running Redhat/CentOs/Fedora you will have to update your yum.conf to be able to update your desktop or server using yum over a proxy connection. Luckily setting up yum to […]