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Yes I got back from my program. About the program, yes it went really well. And once again, as like always I met some great guys. Its a great privilege to have discussion with these sort of guys who not only want to learn but want to share also their views. Overall, a good experience.But despite […]

The CMG Wake last Friday was a lot of fun. Estimates have placed attendance at around the 700 mark, which made the pub extremely crowded and rather noisy.

Whilst queuing at the bar I got talking to someone who left the company in 1987. He put his finger on the unique thing about CMG. He now lectures in Business Studies and cites CMG as an example of openness in business. In CMG everything was open: the personal files hung in open cabinets in the office. You could read anyone’s file - from their job application form to their latest staff appraisal. Yes, including salary.

That’s the bit which gets people. When Brian Behlendorf talked about introducing open source principles in general working practices at OOW2K6 one of the questions afterwards was whether such openness, if taken to its logical extreme, would result in everybody knowing how much everybody else earns.

Well, why not? Partly it’s just embarrassment - many people would rather discuss their medical conditions or their bedroom fantasies than their pay-packet. But the main objection seems to be “I wouldn’t want my colleagues to know how much I earn”. The objectors are presuming that they earn more than their co-workers. I think some of those people would be very interested to discover that all their colleagues get paid more than them. And they’d want to know why.

The accepted wisdom in CMG was that open salaries promoted fairness: the management couldn’t play favourites because anybody could ask them “How come Joe Soap gets paid 10K more than me?” and have to provide an answer. In practice there were probably all sorts of anomalies - especially in pay rates across different divisions - but it felt fair. I know people who work in law firms and finances houses where discussing your salary with co-workers is a disciplinary offence. Most companies aren’t that fierce but very few companies are as open as CMG was.

I don’t think openness was the only thing which made CMG special, but it was one of the reasons why so many people feel affection for the company, even if they did stop working for it over twenty years ago. Although I’m sure the promise of a free bar helped too.

Update: 06-MAR-2008

Currently Dilbert has an amusing take on payroll secrecy. I think this link will eventually break, so get it whilst it’s hot

Just a quick posting with some latest news from Rittman Mead Consulting.
We’re delighted to announce that, as from February 1st 2008, Borkur Steingrimsson is joining us as a partner and Principal Consultant. Borkur will probably be known to a lot of Oracle BI developers as an expert on OBIEE, Oracle Warehouse Builder and Oracle Discoverer, […]

How to Check Disk space in Linux

For Linux beginners sometimes it’s very hard for them to perform simple administration tasks like check available disk space. I know some Windows folks at my work who tried to get their hands into Linux so they installed Fedora 8 on PC. But soon they realized that they couldn’t do some basic tasks like check free disk space, sharing directories, configuring printers etc etc to name a few. Checking disk space I Linux is not very difficult in Linux .There are two ways to check disk space in Linux

• Check disk space in Linux using command line
  
• Check disk space in Linux by using Graphical tool if you have some sort of graphical desktop installed.
  

Check disk space using command line in Linux:

Open command terminal

window if you are running Graphical windows manager. If you don’t know how to open

command terminal window see how

Run df –h , UNIX friendly way is to run df –k but if want disk

space displayed in Megs and Gigabytes then use df –h :

Check disk space in Linux using GUI:

From command line run command:

OR

From desktop Select Systems Tools from Applications and then select Disk usage analyzer, this will launch a GUI window.

Select Filesystem icon

if you want to check the disk space for the file systems or select Folder icon if you want to see disk space for each and every directory on your Fedora machine

Just returned last night from a brief work related visit to the city of Darwin, Capital of the Australian Northern Territory.
For those of you that don’t know Australia very well, Darwin is located in the middle of the very top end of Australia. It basically has two types of weather, hot and wet or hot and […]

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How to Autostart apache during boot in Fedora Linux:

Question: I am running Apache web (httpd) server on Fedora Linux but whenever my machine web server doesn’t start automatically.

Answer: In Fedora apache web server can be started manually by running command “/etc/init.d/httpd” with start argument or by running service command. To setup apache autostart during boot you need to determine the default run level your fedora Linux boots during startup.

How to check default run level in Fedora

Running runlevel command on my fedora linux machines displays default run level as 5.You must be wondering what runlevel has to do with by autostarting apache server. There is reason for that Linux uses different run levels to boot and you should know default runlevel where you would like to configure apache to autostart during boot.

Next you have to use magic command called chkconfig on fedora to list the apache (httpd) services runlevel:

In chkconfig output off means apache (httpd) service is set with no autostart for associated runlevels. Since my default runlevel is 5 , I need to set apache to autostart in runlevel 5 using chkconfig. Here is how you can turn apache autostart for your default run level :

If your default run leve is 3 then you should use 3 in above command . Now to check if autostart is set as on during boot

Run checkconfig again :