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Images do not load in Safari

July 7, 2010
By gary

I experienced a weird problem whereby no images were loading in Safari (yet Flash was working) but everything was fine in Firefox. I tried cleaning out caches, and reset virtually everything. The real problem turned out that I had accidentally checked the item “Disable Images” under the “Develop” menu. I...
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A filer in your pocket. Installing a NetApp simulator.

January 30, 2010
By gary

Download a simulator. You will need a NOW (NetApp On the Web) account to download. http://now.netapp.com/NOW/cgi-bin/simulator I am using a Linux virtual machine inside Virtual Box, so I connect to that Linux machine and copy over the tarfile, that I downloaded to my mac. ...
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Collecting NFS trace data for performance tasks.

January 19, 2010
By gary

When collecting network traces to solve performance problems, we need to balance the need to capture enough data to re-construct the upper protocols with the need to limit the amount of trace data collected overall. When capturing NFS traffic, the packet size can...
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Presentation to RTP OpenSolaris group on Filebench.

January 15, 2010
By gary

On Janurary 5th 2010 I gave a short presentation on the FileBench workload modeling tool to the RTP OpenSolaris group. Click on the slide to advance. The...
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How to change a disk “type” in Solaris.

January 7, 2010
By gary

Sometimes you might want to change the “type” of a disk within Solaris. The “type” of the disk is stored on the disk itself, along with the partition...
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Performance related videos from Velocity 09

January 7, 2010
By gary

A set of recorded presentations from the Velocity 09 conference, many of which are related to performance. Particularly “Internet Scale” problems. Here’s the link: Velocity 2009
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