Author Archives: morsing

Brookson One umbrella company

Posted on June 19, 2021 by morsing

Having had my first experience with an umbrella company, I can only say I am not impressed with my first choice, Brookson. I am now on my eleventh week with Brookson, as an “employee” with an employment contract, weekly pay … Continue reading →

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AIX IRC channel moving home

Posted on May 19, 2021 by morsing

Due to the spat over on Freenode, ##aix has (at least for now) setup camp on Libera IRC network. Please join us! Freenode spat here: https://gist.github.com/joepie91/df80d8d36cd9d1bde46ba018af497409

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Org-mode plan for IBM ESS upgrade

Posted on May 1, 2021 by morsing

I was convinced to start using Emacs Org-mode back in January, and have not regretted it. Still learning, and there is much to learn, but I have the basics down. As I manage some IBM Spectrum Scale (ESS) GPFS clusters, … Continue reading →

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NDB – Network Block Device setup

Posted on March 14, 2021 by morsing

I have been trying to setup NBD to present a shared storage device for me to play around with Xen live mobility. NBD is not tricky, but the documentation, both official and Google, is flawed and confusing. To get a … Continue reading →

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NIM alt_disk_migration and p6 processor mode

Posted on February 8, 2021 by morsing

I was trying to do a NIM alt_disk_migration on a POWER7 LPAR form AIX 7.1 to 7.2 but the nimadm scripts kept stalling, but without outputting anything interesting, even in debug mode. In the end I gave up and tried … Continue reading →

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Updating fileset in lpp_source on NIM

Posted on February 5, 2021 by morsing

If you update your NIM server to a new TL level and you do alt_disk migrations from this NIM server on client servers on lower levels, you need to update the bos.alt_disk.boot_images fileset in both the LPP sources and SPOTs … Continue reading →

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Only shadow left after exiting sketch in SolidWorks

Posted on January 29, 2021 by morsing

After upgrading SolidWorks to 2020/21, leaving a sketch left only the shadow on the ground. Hovering the mouse would still show plane outlines in orange though. It turned out to be caused by a graphics performance setting. Disable “Enhanced graphics … Continue reading →

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X11 Forwarding problems

Posted on November 17, 2020 by morsing

Trying to debug and simultaneously trawling Google for a non-trivial version of this issue: $ xclockX11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). I finally cracked it. This was from the outset … Continue reading →

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When you “can’t” delete a user in MacOS

Posted on June 21, 2020 by morsing

Or “How to get rid of the first user ever created”, this is about getting dscl error 14120 when trying to delete a user. I bought a second hand Mac mini which came re-installed but with a user called “User”. … Continue reading →

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Update Windows System Partition to point to new install

Posted on June 10, 2020 by morsing

I cloned an SSD disk to a bigger disk using EaseUS Todo Backup, not realising I really needed their Partition Master software. All their software is pretty awesome by the way. When I tried to boot from the cloned disk, … Continue reading →

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