I have been monitoring IP’s that slip through my current feeds in pfBlockerNG on my pfSense run appliance. When I encountered one that hit my proxy or attempted to hit a port I would often lookup that IP on the “Google”. The search results were almost always first presented from https://www.abuseipdb.com/. This site’s database is […]
What occurred: The Primary database instance failed to start using srvctl citing an ‘ORA-1105 signalled during: alter database mount…’ in the alert log of the primary instance. Upon a manual attempt at starting up the instance we also received ‘ORA-19808: recovery destination parameter mismatch’ at the SQL prompt. A review of the parameters of both […]
Online Redo Logs on Physical Standby (Metalink Doc ID 740675.1) states that if you encounter an ORA-01623 when trying to drop a redo log ON THE STANDBY that the only way to drop the group (While it is still a standby) is to recreate the standby control file. This is an can be an invasive […]
Proxmox is a Virtual Environment manager GUI that sits on top of KVM. It is a custom Debian Linux installation which has features specifically designed for VM’s and LXC Containers. The fact that it is open source makes it a great alternative to VMWare for development and home use. In later posts I will cover […]
Several years ago I was able to get my hands on an old HP DL580 Gen 8 from a server resupply store. Initially I just installed Redhat Linux on the system and used that for some script development, testing and later a plex media server. This server had the added benefit of heating much of […]