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MQ on RHEL6 FDC – MSGAMQ6119 Resource temporarily unavailable’ from pthread_create
After configuring a RHEL6 box with MQ 7.0.1.5 we hit a problem where by when we had a large number of connections (118) it would then fail to allow any more connections. You could also not perform any operations on the box. If you attempted to make a change you got the following error fork: retry: […]
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In-place upgrade from Windows 2008 R2 Standard to Enterprise
Use the dsim tool for completing this update. Start a command console and run the following command Dism /online /Set-Edition:ServerEnterprise /ProductKey:XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX where XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX is your product. Key. If you get an error about the key not being valid you can use a microsoft provided one – 489J6-VHDMP-X63PK-3K798-CPX3Y followed by activating using your key i.e. Dism […]
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Apply MQ Service on Ubuntu – 7.0.1.0 to 7.0.1.5
The first thing to do before upgrading MQ is to stop all queue managers. If you are running any message brokers then stop these as well. i.e. endmqm CSIM Use the command “dspmq” to check that all local queue managers are stopped Download the fixback from the IBM service web site – i.e. for 64-bit […]
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Ubuntu 11.04 Upgrade…won’t boot – GRUB prompt
Aftert upgrading to Ubuntu 11.04 my server would not boot. It looks like there is a bug in the update such that if you upgrade from Ubuntu 10.10 which itself had been upgraded from Ubuntu 10.04, and grub was never reinstalled then you just get a GRUB prompt after bootup. To fix this you need […]
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Install MQ 7.0.1.0 onto Ubuntu 10.4 (or greater)
Ubuntu is not officially supported on MQ 7.0.1.0 but it runs fine except you need a few tweeks to get it installed. As ubuntu normally uses Apt-Get to install packages we need to install the rpm packages. This lets you use the rpm command like you would on other linux OSs sudo apt-get install rpm […]
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Convert a Linked Clone VM Image into a Independant VM Image
Have you ever cloned a VM and then later on wanted to make the clone a completelty standalone VM. – Here is how… For this guide I am using “Cloned VM” as the Parent and “Clone” and the Child VM – the one you want to make independant. Look inside the directory containing all the […]
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iPhone 4 – Replacement Back Panels
Well after being told by Apple its going to be £139 to replace I have been looking to see what other avenues there are. Looks like the rear panel is VERY easy to replace – Two small philips screws and then the panel slides off Video showing this Photo guide from IFixIt.com There are a […]
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iPhone 4 – Back glass smashed 🙁
3 Days into iPhone 4 ownership……While at a wedding my jacket was knocked off a coffee table and I thought nothing of this until I took the iPhone out of my pocket and was distraught to see that the back of the phone had smashed to pieces. I was amazed such a light impact could […]
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How to Add Vista to Windows 7 Boot Manager
1. Invoke a command prompt with Administrator priviledge. If you don’t know how to do it. Please follow the steps in this post. The instructions are for Vista, but they are the same. 2. Type the following to list the current boot manager settings. C:>bcdedit Windows Boot Manager ——————– identifier {bootmgr} device partition=C: description Windows […]
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Updating ESX 3.5 using esxupdate
If you have not got the VirtualCenter and thus cannot use the UpdateManager then you will have to do things the hard way and manually install all the patches. This can be a bit of a paint but the following can make like easyer Download all the patches into a new directory ie. /files/Patches/ToApply Untar […]