Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution

Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution is a book published by O’Reilly Media. It is an anthology of essays written by luminaries of the open source and free software movements. The essays variously chronicle aspects of free software history, describe various philosophical positions, or sketch groups important to the movements. The book is … Read more

Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary

Once upon a time Linus Torvalds was a skinny unknown, just another nerdy Helsinki techie who had been fooling around with computers since childhood. Then he wrote a groundbreaking operating system and distributed it via the Internet — for free. Today Torvalds is an international folk hero. And his creation LINUX is used by over … Read more

Splunk Enterprise 10.0.2 + Enterprise Security 8.2

Splunk Enterprise 10 Splunk Enterprise 10 is the core Splunk platform used to collect, index, search, analyze, and visualize machine data. As a sysadmin, think of it as the central log/data analytics platform where you ingest data from servers, applications, network devices, cloud services, security tools, and more. Main uses Typical components Splunk Enterprise deployments … Read more

HPE Gen10/Gen11/Gen12 Service Pack for Proliant (SPP) Version 2026.05

Service pack for HPE ProLiant Gen10/Gen11/Gen12 2026.05.00.00 release contains components supporting HPE ProLiant and HPE Apollo Gen10 and Gen10 Plus server platforms and options. This SPP release contains Smart Update Manager (SUM) 12.7.0 and HPE Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) 5 version 3.19. Important Notes: Service pack for HPE ProLiant Gen10/Gen11/Gen12 2026.05.00.00 release supersedes the 2026.03.00.00 release and includes support … Read more

HPE Gen10/Gen11/Gen12 Service Pack for Proliant (SPP) Version 2026.03

Service pack for HPE ProLiant Gen10/Gen11/Gen12 2026.03.00.00 release contains firmware, software and driver components supporting HPE ProLiant Gen10/Gen11/Gen12 server platforms and options. This SPP release contains Smart Update Manager (SUM) 12.6.0 and HPE Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) 6 version 1.74.  Important Notes: Service pack for HPE ProLiant Gen11 2026.03.00.00 release supersedes the 2026.01.00.00 release and includes … Read more

HPE Gen10/Gen11/Gen12 Service Pack for Proliant (SPP) Version 2025.11

Service pack for HPE ProLiant Gen10/Gen11/Gen12 2025.11.00.00 release contains components supporting HPE ProLiant and HPE Apollo Gen10/Gen11/Gen12 server platforms and options. This SPP release contains Smart Update Manager (SUM) 12.4.0 and HPE Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) 5 version 3.16. Important Notes: Service pack for HPE ProLiant Gen10 and 10 Plus 2025.11.00.00 release supersedes the 2025.09.00.00 release and includes … Read more

HPE Gen10/Gen10 Plus Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP) Version 2025.07

Service pack for HPE ProLiant Gen10 and 10 Plus 2025.07.00.00 release contains components supporting HPE ProLiant and HPE Apollo Gen10 and Gen10 Plus server platforms and options. This SPP release contains Smart Update Manager (SUM) 12.2.0 and HPE Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) 5 version 3.14. Important Notes: Service pack for HPE ProLiant Gen10 and 10 Plus 2025.07.00.00 release … Read more

Changing Timezone Settings on Oracle Database Servers

Here’s the info on how to check and modify the timezone settings in Linux OS and Oracle DB.Following settings were valid for Oracle DB 11.2.0.2+ on Redhat/Oracle Linux 7+. OS Side Setting:check /etc/localtime to see the timezone setting for the server. Thesetting should be set to an entry in the /usr/share/zoneinfo directory/subdirectory. Oracle Grid Timezone … Read more