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[July 23, 2002] Developer Todo by Alec Thomas

July 23, 2002

About: Developer Todo is a program to assist developers in maintaining a list of outstanding tasks in a hierarchical, colorized, and prioritized list. Additionally, it can automatically list outstanding items when you change into a directory.

Changes: Fixed more GCC 3.x compilation problems, and a problem when running without the TERM environment variable set.

[July 23, 2002] f2w Helpdesk at Sourceforge by scav

July 23, 2002

About: f2w helpdesk is a Web-based helpdesk package. It allows requests to be categorised to an arbitrary level of detail using a expert-system-like question and answer method. Advice and problem-specific information can be associated with the request categories, thus building up a knowledge base to speed the resolution of frequently occurring problems. Users can also a own tasks, thus using it as a todo list or for workflow within teams, and notes can be added to each request at any time.

Changes: Minor user interface improvements, bugfixes in the Oracle configuration script, a new MS SQL configuration, and the automatic addition of new help desk operators to at least one team (without this, they can't do much).

[May 1, 2002] SSGDOC - System Administration at cs.unm.edu

This document contains documentation, procedure, and policy for the Systems Support group.

This document contains documentation, procedure, and policy for the Systems Support group. Reading and maintaining it is a required element to employment in the Systems Support Group - it is vital in order for us to provide consistent (hopefully excellent) service to the CS department.

It should be kept as terse as possible (otherwise no one will read it) while providing sufficient documentation so that all (especially new) members will have a good running start at understanding the technical composition of the site, and the group's procedures and policies of operation. CS.UNM.EDU's technical composition has been largely modelled after the LISA paper available at http://www.infrastructures.org.

If you hope to understand the document you are currently reading, you really must first read the Infrastructures paper upon which this practical document is modelled after.

[Jan 28, 2002] Data Center Design Philosophy

This article is the complete first chapter of the Sun BluePrints[tm] book, Enterprise Data Center Design and Methodology, by Rob Snevely (ISBN 0-13-047393-6), which is available through www.sun.com/books, amazon.com, fatbrain.com and Barnes & Noble bookstores.
January 1, 2002 | Sun BluePrints[tm] OnLine

Editor's Note - This article is the complete first chapter of the Sun BluePrints[tm] book, Enterprise Data Center Design and Methodology, by Rob Snevely (ISBN 0-13-047393-6), which is available through www.sun.com/books, amazon.com, fatbrain.com and Barnes & Noble bookstores.

The detailed process of data center design appears on the outset to be a purely mechanical process involving the layout of the area, computations to determine equipment capacities, and innumerable other engineering details. They are, of course, essential to the design and creation of a data center, however, the mechanics alone do not a data center make. The use of pure mechanics rarely creates anything that is useful, except perhaps by chance.

There are, in fact, some philosophical guidelines that should be kept in mind during the data center design process. These are based on the relatively short history of designing and building practical data centers, but are also based on design concepts going way back. This chapter looks at some of these philosophies.

This chapter contains the following sections:

Data Center Practices

May 1, 2001

Eighty percent of outages are allegedly the result of people or process issues. An intuitive and informative naming scheme can define and highlight the composition and function of components within a service infrastructure. The article looks at the merits of such a naming scheme and includes an example system for servers, storage, networks and cables that may help reduce operational error.

[Jan 1, 2002] Solaris 8 Administrator's Guide Chapter 4 Network Configuration By Paul Watters

A weak book. Just slightly better then nothing
January 1, 2002

ISBN 0-596-00073-1,400 pages

After undertaking the complex tasks required to configure a single host, planning and setting up an entire network can be daunting. In this chapter, you'll learn how to configure a Solaris-based network, including the configuration of single or multiple network interfaces, static and dynamic routing, and network troubleshooting. In addition, examples for enabling devices and testing interfaces will be provided.

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