Month: March 2009

Tips to fight stains-I

Posted on by Ganesh Sharma

Our daily wear or occasional clothes can get every now and then, while eating, drinking or just, without our knowing it! Sometimes the stains are so strong that they always stay there, leaving us with no option other than to discard the cloth. Here we are presenting some tips, to be published in series, to remove some of the common stains, and thus preserve your favorite dress ..

Restoring Files From Aix mksysb Backup

Posted on by Ganesh Sharma

You may be aware that the mksysb command creates the bootable image of all the mounted files systems on rootvg, at the time of creation of mksysb image. Here I am going to discuss how to restore data from mksysb backup image. I’ll discuss how to restore single file, multiple files and directories from mksysb backup image….

Choosing Your Laptops

Posted on by Ganesh Sharma

Choosing and purchasing laptops becomes quite a daunting task when you have lots of choices with different features. Then it comes to choose between Pentium and AMD, then motherboards and then screen size and so on…

Tips for Vivacious Home Interiors

Posted on by Ganesh Sharma

Stylish and lively living spaces always attract the attention of others; and get you praise from all. Here are some simple do-it-yourself tips for home interiors collected from various sources, to perk up the decor in your home and brighten your home interiors….

How To Use mksysb Command

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Here I am going to discuss what you can do with the mksysb command. But before proceeding further let’s have a look on important command line options. Consult mksysb man page from IBM for more information….

I Am Possible

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Never underestimate your Clients’ complaints, no matter how funny they might seem!
This is a real story that happened between a customer of General Motors and its Customer-Care Executive. Pls read on…..
A complaint was received by the Pontiac Division of General Motors….

Tips For Garden in your Balcony

Posted on by Ganesh Sharma

As everybody is living in apartments or flats these days, we don’t have space for a full-fledged garden , so we have to choose to live without greenery. But if you have a green thumb, you can transform your balcony into a green retreat. Here are a few tips for a balcony garden…

Some Interesting Facts About mksysb

Posted on by Ganesh Sharma

While I was writing about mksysb notes from IBM manuals, I came to know of some interesting facts about mksysb command in the man pages. Not everyone is interested in navigating through man pages or so. Here, I’m presenting the facts in my own language…

Some Interesting Facts-I

Posted on by Ganesh Sharma

There are always some facts for which no supporting evidence are there. But still everyone finds some truth about these facts. The degree of the level of truth may vary from person to person. I thought of presenting the list for the readers. I hope you enjoy these…

All You Wanted To Know About AIX Tape Device Backups-II

Posted on by Ganesh Sharma

Welcome to the second article of the series about rmt devices in AIX. In first article I discussed about the common but confusing terminology used for tape devices. I hope you found the article All You Wanted To Know About AIX Tape Device Backups-I, interesting and useful. In this second article I am gonna explain the other naming conventions for rmt tape devices…