Unlike Linux which has lots of GNU utilities like ‘maxdepth’, ‘depth’ etc… Solaris(and perhaps other flavors of Unix) doesnt have a similar utility to specify the depth of the ‘find’ command. After some Googling I found a way to do this on Solaris. Find below – To find all in a directory(to just list you can [...]
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Finding and deleting zero KB files from the current directory in Solaris
Posted in Uncategorized on October 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Giving up
Posted in Uncategorized on May 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I am sad today when I realize how many things I have given up in my life. I am not talking about the great opportunities or the big lotteries that were to be won. I am talking about those brief moments in which I gave up those seemingly small things in a seemingly reasonable way. [...]
XenServer VM fails to start with the error – “This operation cannot be performed because the specified VDI could not be found on the storage substrate”
Posted in Technical, Uncategorized, virtualization on April 29, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I powered On my XenServer VM and was shocked to find that the VMs couldn’t be powered On. This was the error message that I received. This could be because of numerous reasons but in my case it was because an ISO file was attached to the VM. Removing it had my XenServer VM powered [...]
Self Service Portal for XenServer
Posted in Uncategorized on October 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I introduced XenServer Web Self Serve Portal on my Citrix blog. The video shows installing and configuring the whole appliance in less than 5 mins. Check it out here. http://community.citrix.com/display/ocb/2010/10/06/XenServer+Self+Service+Portal+up+and+running+in+5+mins! Thanks, Arun.P.C
Why should you join a startup?
Posted in Uncategorized on April 5, 2010 | 2 Comments »
One of my best friends who work for IBM Rational wanted to ‘try’ a start-up. After months of study and seeking different opinions he had his ideas which he shared with me. I realized that despite all the time and effort he spent, he had no clue about how it is to work for a [...]
Outlook 2007 – emails not deleted, only striked off
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged outlook, windows on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I wasted about half an hour trying to figure out an annoying feature of Outlook 2007 which prevents emails getting cleared from Inbox. So, when I delete emails from Inbox, it gets striked off(marked for deletion) but just sits there. But If you think that you don’t need to delete the emails from the Exchange Server [...]
Exception: 1219 WNetAddConnection2 Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user, using more than one user name, are not allowed. Disconnect all previous connections to the server or shared resource and try again.
Posted in Uncategorized on October 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This could happen when you use VMware Server with SMB storage or otherwise. The error message is pretty self explanatory but here is how it can happen with VMware Server. Consider that VMware Server is installed on a machine which mounts SMB storage location with an administrator account. Windows doesnt allow two sessions access the [...]
Xen-Mapping OS image names with VHD files
Posted in Uncategorized on August 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This applies to Citrix XenServer 4.1, 4.01 and other Xen variants. Consider we have 3 images in the storage namely Redhat, Win2k3 and Win2k and you want to know the name of the VHD files in the storage. Xen has a convoluted way of relating to operating system files. This is how the naming goes [...]
Salesforce plugin not visible in Outlook 2007
Posted in Uncategorized on July 6, 2008 | 17 Comments »
Consider this. You want to integrate Salesforce into your Outlook 2007. You went to salesforce.com and downloaded ‘Connect for Outlook’. Installed it and restarted Outlook several times but still not able to see the Salesforce Outlook buttons. Outlook 2007 has a strange way to put the Salesforce plugin in the ‘Disabled items’ list. What you [...]
VMware Server – Poor experience with Vista Windows VMs.
Posted in Uncategorized on July 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Problem After installing VMware Tools, you are still having a bad experience interacting with your Win2k8 or Vista VM. Firstly, it could be because you have not enabled full hardware accelaration. Please check you hardware acceleration settings to confirm that you have set it to the fullest. To check for hardware acceleration, Right click on [...]
