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Solaris 10 System Administration Essentials
By RickRamsey-Oracle on Jun 07, 2010
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- Rick
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In America it's almost a national pastime to make fun of Rednecks.
But I love 'em.
On some days I swear I'm becoming one.
Shoot, one of my best friends is named JimBob.
Craig Morgan has a song called The Redneck Yacht Club.
I was listening to it this morning while sitting in my sweats, sneakers, and Ferrari cap behind the school bus. It was stopped, lights-a-blinkin', waiting for the kids to climb on. Once they all got in and sat down I would be able to drop off my daughter at the Country Market, where she meets her ride to school, another 20 minutes up the road.
I got to thinking that there ought to be rules about some things.
Like what you wear outside of the house, for instance.
I know, I know, when you get right down to it, there's really not a lot of difference between a cheap tuxedo and a pair of overalls. They are, after all, both made of cotton.
Except that there is.
And dropping off your little girl at the bus in pajama bottoms and bedroom slippers, a Marlboro hanging off your bottom lip, is simply not acceptable attire for any Momma. Redneck or not.
Even if the pajamas are a fashionable cerulian blue with tastefully spaced red and yellow 'possum prints that set off the faux fur on your bedroom slippers to best advantage.
After the bus left, she shuffled across the railroad tracks, waved at her friend standing in the window behind the rusty pontoon boat that's been parked in the front yard since 1982, bigger than the damn house, and headed home.
She lives next door to the RV storage and consignment lot. Each morning, she steps over the broken picket fence gate and goes back inside to finish her daily chores. Or last night's bottle of Jim Beam. Who knows. When you wear your pajama bottoms to the bus stop, anything is possible.
Even a proud people who value their freedom need standards.For you, today, BigAdmin has a fine set of scripts by Prashant Pilankar.
This tech tip by Prashant Pilankar's includes a main script and several subscripts that automate the administration of ZFS and UFS filesystems in Oracle Solaris 10. Contents:
This is just the first of several scripts by Prashant. There is more on the way.
- Rick
BigAdmin's Solaris 10 Applications Library, which used to let you search through Sun's partner database to find the applications that ran on Solaris 10, will not make the transition to the Oracle Technology Network. As of today, April 7, it is no longer available.
From today forward, to find out which applications run on Solaris 10, use Oracle's Partner Solutions Catalog:
Oracle Partner Network Solutions Catalog
It works a bit differently than BigAdmin's Library, but you can rely on it to be available for a very long time.
To find out more about the artist who drew our charming librarian, go to the Strangers In Paradise Website
- Rick
Back in the day Sun was all about SunOS on SPARC.
The OS was optimized for the hardware and the hardware was designed to take advantage of the OS. If you wanted something else, you went somewhere else.
After a stuttering start, things changed, and the partnership between Intel and Solaris has been riding the updrafts for several years, now.
Here's the latest...
by Mike Mulkey
A technical guide for developers and sysadmins that explains how to use the capabilities of Solaris to optimize the scalability, performance, reliability, security, power efficiency, and virtualization of applications running on Intel's Xeon processor family (5600 and 7500 series).
A lot of work went into this paper, and it shows. It takes each major Solaris capability and describes how it has been optimized. For example ...
It's a great read.
- Rick
(drumroll photo courtesy of E-How).
BigAdmin will be publishing new content on Oracle VM Server for SPARC (LDOMS) soon, including an update of our Virtualization Hub.
In the meantime, if you want to use some cool graphics tools to analyze the performance of Zones, Containers, and Oracle VM Server for SPARC (LDOMS), check out....
That's a picture of my boxer, Penny, after she finished raising Buster, my other boxer.
Buster, pictured below, is much younger.
After last week I felt more like Penny than like Buster.
Lots of work going on inside Oracle to design the section of the Oracle Technology Network that our BigAdmin content will migrate to.
In fact, content from these three sites will be combined into one section on OTN:
That way developers, students, and admins can find general content about Solaris and related technologies in one place, plus how-to articles and resources specific to their roles.
I'm also sifting through BigAdmin's 3500+ content resources (not counting the HCL, which has over 10,000 entries) to see what migrates to the Oracle Technology Network and what doesn't. I'm making that decision both by the popularity of the content and the relevance to Oracle's technology offerings. Naturally most of our Solaris 10-related content will migrate, but most of our Solaris 9 and Solaris 8 content will migrate, as well.
Wicked sorry that I'm not keeping the MOTD as updated as Robert used to, or the MOTD Archive populated. Things will settle down a bit once we complete the migration to the Oracle Technology Network.
- Rick
First, something useful...we have published two new tech tips submitted by the community (affectionately known as "Commie Tech Tips"):
If you're running NetApp's DataFabric Manager (DFM) 3.2R1, you probably know that in spite of having a version number almost as cool as a Porsche's, it does not run on Solaris 10.
If you'd like to run NetApp's DFM on Solaris 10, you'll need version 3.7.1. (Not as cool as a Porsche.) This article by Balasubramanian C explains how to upgrade from version 3.2R1 to 3.71, using Live Upgrade.
Photo courtesy of www.porsche.com
(That's the Porsche 918 Spyder Concept, by the way.)
This tech tip by Victor Feng describes how to avoid problems with incompatible patch levels when moving a local zone from one host to another.
More info about Solaris zones and containers in BigAdmin's Zones and Containers hub.
You know who you are.
Do you really think that BigAdmin is interested in posting your ads for cheap drugs, the latest gossip about Tiger Woods, and steroids to grow different parts of my anatomy?
Do your homework, you marketing genius, you.
If you're too lazy to do your homework, then go ahead and continue to fill in those BigAdmin forms with all your drivel. You know how many mouse clicks it takes me to delete all that stuff you just filled in? Two: one to delete, and one to confirm.
And I enjoy it. I actually look forward to that moment in my day when I can stop what I'm doing, turn on Tchaikovski's 1812 Overture, and enjoy the music. I put my feet up, close my eyes, and when that glorious finale arrives, I happily plink away at the Delete button.
You? You just suck.
- Rick
For those too young to remember him, Bob Hope was America's favorite comic during the more innocent time in America's history when you couldn't include profanity in the jokes you delivered over the airwaves.
He was particularly popular with US troops stationed overseas or in remote bases.
upon being introduced to a group of amputees...
"Please don't stand up on my account."
At least he could still be politically incorrect.
Thanks to Maxime Corbeau, who sent us the link below, you can be master of your own one-liners.
Photo courtesy of JerryPippin.com
From their website:
"Welcome to readylines.com, the one-liner specialist.
You will find here plenty of one-liner commands that we hope will be useful to you. We currently have one-liners for various utilities such as openssl, grep, sed, tcpdump, ssldump and more. We'll try to add more in the future. The website has been designed to make reading one-liners easier for you."
Thanks, Maxime, for sharing the link with us.
You can also find a large repository of both Solaris and Linux sysadmin commands in BigAdmin's ShellMe Section. It includes both collections of commands and individual command sequences for topics such as:
If you have a favorite command sequence, tell us about it and we'll add it to the list.
If you'd like to read more of Bob Hope's innocent one-liners, you can find them at www.theage.com.au. I got a special kick out of this one:
"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it."Bob Hope's one-liners won't give you the gut-busting laughs that some of today's comics will give you, but they'll take you back to another time.
- Rick
No, not that kind of ace.
But the plane, piloted by Sean Tucker, is wicked cool.
The boat is pretty cool, too.
You know how all the ACE programs are always for Java developers? Java. Java. Java. Well, I spoke to Victoria Lira, who runs the Oracle ACE program for the Oracle Technology Network, and she is welcoming admins and Solaris developers with open arms.
(By the way, Oracle shortens "sysadmin" to "admin," and uses it to encompass application management, database, system, network, and storage administrators.)
Don't have an autographed poster of James Gosling on your wall? I don't, either. If you know your Solaris (or Linux), your development environments, your systems management tools, your Oracle Sun hardware, or your storage, step up and nominate yourself. Or tell a buddy you'll nominate her if she nominates you. Buy somebody a cheap lunch. Whatever works.
Getting nominated is kinda like asking out Sandra Bullock. It doesn't guarantee results. To be accepted, you have to be strong in a few of these areas:
If you have published any content on BigAdmin or SDN, be sure to mention it. If you want to publish any content on BigAdmin or the Solaris Developer Hub of SDN, use this link:
How to Publish Content on BigAdmin or SDN (Solaris Developer)
We're still running a little slow, but we'll get to it.
Because you get special treatment from Oracle. For instance, check out this list of presentations at Oracle events made by Oracle Aces:
Presentations made by Oracle ACES
And if you become an Oracle ACE Director, the relationship gets a lot more interesting. If you're interested, be sure to read the entire FAQ
I explained to Victoria that the Solaris community has some pretty diverse talents, so I got special dispensation for you. If you can shake your tail feathers to Ray Charles like this bird (clearly a BigAdmin fan) can, you'll get bonus points:
(Thank you, Rich Brown)
If the embedded video doesn't work for you, you can find it on YouTube.
- Rick
Why don't YOU tell US?.
Tell us what capabilities you'd like our future code analysis tools to have in the areas of:
In particular, we would like to know your preferences for static and dynamic code analysis capabilities, plus user interface features.
This survey is actually pretty specific. If you're an Oracle Solaris developer or you set up the development environments for Solaris developers, it should take you 5 minutes to complete.
If you spend most of your time BASE jumping into bottomless pits, it might take you longer.
For more information about Oracle Solaris Studio and Sun's C, C++, and Fortran development tools, go to:
- Rick
While listening to National Public Radio (my favorite Bolshevik station), I heard a story that most sysadmins of Solaris and Oracle Sun hardware would probably enjoy.
Right after Haikus of Das Kapital and before Knitting Tips from Madamme Defarge," All Things Considered ran a cool story about The Geek Group.
That's kinda what BigAdmin has been all about: helping Do-It-Yourselfers (DIY's) get the job done. (You'd make your life easier if you took the damn Solaris Sysadmin Training Courses already, but I understand. It's been a while for me, too.)
And that's right in line with what Justin Kestelyn, author of the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) blog, is doing with the OTN. Make sure to read his post about the future of BigAdmin (and SDN).
We're going to have a hiccup or two during the transition to Oracle, but please stay with us; in the long run, Oracle's resources will help us get more and better content to you, and provide more interesting ways for us to talk to each other.
Here's what Bob Rhubart, of The Arch Beat blog had to say:
"The combination of the Sun Developer Network (including java.sun.com), BigAdmin, and the Oracle Technology Network will result in the largest, and most diverse, community of Developers, Database Administrators, SysAdmins, and Architects. The richness and diversity of these communities will truly be remarkable."
So, just to be clear, here's what's still working and where to find it:
If you have submitted content to BigAdmin in the past, you have probably spoken to Constance McKenzie. When the advent of online communities brought into question the need for quality standards in technical content, Constance had the unenviable job of keeping BigAdmin's content useful while preserving the voice of the authors, many of whom spoke English as a second or third language. Despite being handicapped by one or more graduate degrees, Constance jumped headlong into all the latest Web 2.0 mediums and promoted BigAdmin's content religously. Constance was also the keeper of our editorial, web, and legal standards. Which means she kept us out of trouble. If you got your BigAdmin goodies, you have Constance to thank. She was the author of the BigAdmin Newsletter, most of our MOTD's (message of the day), and our Twitter Channel, among other things. You can continue to twitter with Constance at the CMacWasHere channel
If you read The History of BigAdmin, Part I, you know that Robert Weeks was one of the founders of BigAdmin. You may also know that he really digs his Mustang Bullit (and that I want to steal it). What you may not know is that he was the driving force behind BigAdmin since its inception. He's the guy who cared the most about treating Sun's sysadmins right, about protecting BigAdmin as a free and open resource. He had a day job as a Sun engineer that took up most of his time, but he never failed to put in the extra hours to post content, test scripts, design new interfaces, update the HCL, and handle so many other things I couldn't begin to list them here. The back-end content management tools he created for us helped a skeleton team work through a large volume of content. Without that, we would have been lined up against a wall and shot long ago. It's because of the dedication of Robert Weeks that BigAdmin and, more importantly, its charter to serve the needs of sysadmins with free and open content and community, was embraced by Oracle.
- Rick
The people of Burundi have overwhelmingly approved the Oracle-Sun deal.
"We approved the deal because we think BigAdmin's Device Detection Tool is very nice. We use it always."
"And also because the name Solaris is very pretty. In the Batwa language it means 'capacious jug.'"
The men of Burundi agreed.
"We invite all the people of the nation of Oracle to come and play the Burundi drum!"
"They make Version 2.3 of the Device Detection Tool excellent! It now supports new platforms including SPARC Solaris, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, and FreeBSD 6.0, 6.4, 7., 7.1 and 7.2. And it collects more system configuration information!"
"This gives us more time to beat the Burundi drum."
"And drink Burundi beer!"
When asked if they knew how to find the improved Device Detection Tool they said "Who doesn't! It's part of the BigAdmin HCL!"
To commemorate the event, the nation of Burundi has declared a national holiday.
"For our great friends, the people of Oracle and Sun!"
- Rick
This blog is about a new Sun BluePrint, Best Practices For Moving to the Solaris 10 Operating System. If you want to be that way, you can skip straight to the BluePrint.
And not read the part about the wicked cool video game racing seat.
And the Ferraris.
(Read a review of this racing seat at www.playseat.com.)
OK, so the racing chair is not mine yet, but I have my eye on it.
I need it so I can beat my 17-year old daughter at Need for Speed.
When we first started playing, we were using this kind of controller:
She kicked my ass.
So I bought this steering wheel:
It came with brake and throttle pedals. I also bought a TV dinner table (remember those?) and mounted the wheel on it. Now we're pretty much even.
But the TV-table/steering wheel combo still wobbles, and Need for Speed requires precise steering. Or you go off the road at 150 mph. Or smack into a pile of tires because some dirty bastard coming up from behind spun you. Stuck inside a pile of tires and road debris, you get to listen to the spectators jeer while you while you try to find Reverse with the stupid paddle shifters.
Unfortunately, the only steering wheel I could afford comes with paddle shifters. I hate paddle shifters. Paddle shifters are for posers. Unless you actually race your Ferrari. If you don't race your Ferrari and it has a paddle shifter, guess what? You're a poser.
That's right, a Poser.
Poser, poser, poser.
OK, if you eat a lot of smelly cheese, the correct term is poseur. If you'd like a real definition of poseur, go to this site, but be advised that its content may be considered offensive by people who take offense at things:
Urban Dictionary's definition of "poseur".
Poseur, poseur, poseur.
I'd much rather continue talking about video games and the fascinating definitions in Urban Dictionary, but I have a job to do. So I'm gonna tell you about this new BluePrint written by the fine folks in Sun's BluePrints organization. It's called...
Best Practices For Moving to the Solaris 10 Operating System
Sun wants you to read the BluePrint in case you are:
The BluePrint covers....
What makes Sun BluePrints so good is that they're written by experts in the field under the guidance of Kemer Thomson, who has been running Sun's BluePrint program since back in 01. That's almost in the other millennium. (I bet I can kick his ass in Need for Speed.)
Check it out. (While you're at it, also see the Solaris 10 Upgrade Resources for System Administrators.)
And tell me where to find that racing seat for cheap. I want enough money left over to buy the helmet. Swear to God I'll wear it around the house.
- Rick
(Photo courtesy of www.circletrack.com.)
It really sucks when you screw up in a public way. Private screwups? No big deal. Public screwups? Thanks to IM, cell phone cameras, texting, Facebook, and other marvels of modern communication, those who screw up in public get skewered in public.
Frustrate the sadist bastards with a little education:
While you're there, check out the Solaris Security Summit. It might keep you from making an unfortunate decision or two.
The good folks from Solaris Marketing put together this Solaris LISA page to highlight the Solaris-related activities at LISA.
Don't forget to drop by the Solaris booth. We'll have live demos of cool Solaris technologies plus BigAdmin on its very own computer. If you have any questions about where the juciest Solaris 10 content is on BigAdmin, drop by and ask me. Or drop by the BoF on Tuesday night (details on the Solaris LISA page).
If you're really, really, really not sure whether you should spend the money to go to LISA in this economy, mull it over while you watch The Hula Dance from The Lion King in a bunch of different languages.>
- Rick
Are you bored with the HCL? No longer impressed with the 1277 systems (as in servers, desktops, laptops, and motherboards from Sun and OEM vendors) and nearly 1700 components that run Solaris 10?
Can you barely muster the enthusiasm to raise an eyebrow at the more than 6000 systems and components that run OpenSolaris?
Never fear. We've just added about a hundred (that's 097 for you guys in the camo fatigues) entries for virtualization platforms that run Solaris 10 or OpenSolaris:
The virtualization HCL has tabs for:
You can sort the contents of every tab by:
Pretty cool, huh? Now you can go back to being your regular old exuberant sysadmin self.
- Rick
Intel has been developing hardware that takes advantage of the capabilities of Solaris, and Solaris has been optimizing its features to run on Intel platforms. Specifically, on the next-generation Intel Xeon processor.
Why should a sysadmin care? Because the capabilities that resulted from this collaboration will let you do get more work out of fewer resources while increasing reliability and saving energy.
Details here:
- Rick
I saw this picture and it set me to wondering....
Now, I'm not gullible enough to believe every picture I find on the web. After all, there are plenty of artists sufficiently skilled in Photoshop to fool even the most discerning skeptic. I would need independent verification, I decided. So I went to my usual sources. The best I know.
First, I went looking for a Minnesotan. I found Paul Kasper. Paul writes the Information Center for the SunRay Software. I'm pretty sure he's a Minnesotan, though he may be from WisCOLDsin, instead. I get the two confused. In any case, I can always rely on his common sense.
Rick: Did Elvis Write Solaris?
Paul: Wasn't he supposed to be dead?
Since that conversation didn't yield any useful results, I went to my second source, my 16-year old daughter. I can always rely on her sincerity.
Rick: Did Elvis write Solaris?
Beth: Well, if she was his girlfriend, then I certainly hope so. Because boys never write girls any more. It would be very sweet to receive a letter from a boy. As long as I liked him. But not if I didn't like him. Because that would be awkward.
I thanked her for sharing her opinion with me and walked outside, where I was met by my trusted advisor, my hyperactive boxer Buster. Since Buster doesn't actually speak English, I had to get forehead-to-forehead with him and use Canine Telepathy.
Rick: Did Elvis Write Solaris?
Buster: Play with the stick? PLAY WITH THE STICK! PLAY WITH THE STICK! PLAY WITH THE STICK!!
It was clear that I needed to expand my search. So I started digging around. Everywhere. And guess what I found? I found out that despite the best efforts of the name police, Solaris is often referred to by its unofficial names. For example:
Solaris 10 10/08 is often referred to as Solaris 10 update 7
Solaris 9 9/02 is often referred to as Solaris 9 update 1
That can make it pretty tough to communicate, ya know? In fact, John Petersen, a BigAdmin reader, asked us if we could do something to help. Well, thanks again to Bruce Hill, we have a little cheat sheet for you.
It lists all the official names of Solaris and the vernacular by which they are sometimes referred to (tsk tsk). If you're not feeling moved to click on the big letters up above, you can get to it by clicking on the little letters below:
BigAdmin's Guide to Unofficial Solaris Names
Wella wella wella, as for signs of Elvis, like a lot of other people, I'm still looking. While you're waiting, you can listen to some of his music on Blip.fm
- Rick
Do you have to climb Las Torres Del Paine in oven mitts and Florsheim dress shoes with the shoelaces missing just so you can find out which version of which firmware goes with which version of Solaris on whichever dang version of the SPARC server your boss wants to buy?
Photo courtesy of Live for the Outdoors
Bruce Hill and Robert Weeks have teamed up to bring you the BigAdmin Software Stacks Page. It's a list of Sun's SPARC systems and the software stacks supported on each one. We've just started the list, so there will be updates to it every week until we have them all.
It's been a bit tricky to summarize this info without making it too complicated or too simplistic or too difficult to keep current, so please, please, POR FAVOR! let us know what you think and what we can do to make the content more useful to you.
Notice how Torres del Paine contains the word pain? Those Chilenos, my paisanos, are clever dudes.>
- Rick (Ricardo)
The History of BigAdmin dates back to the development of a new type of installer for Solaris that would begin with the release of Solaris 8. This blog explains how BigAdmin first started. Future blogs will provide additional history and background.
Before I started working for Sun, I had been working for a company called Knight-Ridder - which was the parent company for many newspapers around the country (United States), including the San Jose Mercury News, Miami Herald, and many more.
I had also been working with Netscape and doing development with a project called 'NetCaster' at the time, which was Netscape's step into the "push" paradigm of web applications.
NetCaster utilized the proprietary dynamic HTML for Netscape 4, which was based on layers (before the current standards of divs and modern dhtml) and javascript to update the page dynamically.
At the time Netscape 4 was beautiful because it was starting to be used as a development platform - not just a browser - much like Google's Chrome us now (more on that later - Chrome is exciting stuff).
So, with Netscape 4 and NetCaster, developers could create "WebTops" - full screen pages that could be anchored to users' desktops and behave like a live desktop. They could "push" information based on the setup of the WebTop. Very cool technology at the time.
While all this work that was happening in this space, Sun was trying to modernize their installation of Solaris to be more graphic-based and more dynamic.
This eventually turned into a project called 'CD0' - a project to create a standalone installer CD that was not tied directly to the OS it was installing. The installer was based on Web Start Wizards - the Java-based installation that was developed by the Solaris Installation Team in the late 90's (1997-1999 timeframe). The team was led by Eric Nielsen and included a bunch of really talented engineers (Matt Williamson, James Falkner, Sue Sohn, John Perry, Gary Gere - just to name a few).
Figure 1: The Solaris 8 Installation Kiosk
As part of the CD0 project and the wizard-based installation, we also built a customized kiosk - based partly on the NetCaster technology mentioned above - that would load during the installation and give the system administrator access to the web and other resources if the network was available, or local content if it was not.
This kiosk and installer was a lot of fun to work on. I loved being able to dig deep into this kind of development. Projects like this one paved the way for future web-based apps that utilized dynamic updates and communication to other resources to feed the GUI - creating a more app-like environment.
Figure 1 shows the Solaris 8 Installation Kiosk that appeared on the screen when the administrator loaded up CD0 to start the installation. Note the wizard panel on the lower right, the applet "brain" to the left (the menu itself housed the KioskControl - or the "brain") which gave all the installation notes and resources for the administrator, and the location bar at the top, which let the administrator reach external sources on the web.
Also note the small purple button below the location bar at the top of the screen. This button was the original way to reach BigAdmin - the 'bigADMIN' bar (lower case 'b' intended - as it was called originally).
As development of the installer and the kiosk progressed, we saw a need to have a central place within sun.com for the administrator to place the kiosk on if it had network access.
Based on this idea, the applet "brain" ran a test of the network to see if the user was able to ping http://www.sun.com, and if so, redirected the content window of the kiosk to point to BigAdmin.
At the time, BigAdmin had hooks into the kiosk, which allowed it to determine which version of the OS was being installed. Based on the installed OS, BigAdmin provided custom messaging and news about the latest release notes, resources, and information about that OS.
Figure 2 shows a shot of the Solaris 8 Installation Kiosk that has been landed on the original BigAdmin.
Figure 2: Solaris 8 Installation Kiosk with BigAdmin
BigAdmin was released to the public along with the Solaris 8 OS FCS - in February, 2000.
BigAdmin was inspired by the Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) of the 1980's - which is where the title 'SysOp' comes from in the MOTD (Message of the Day) component at the top of today's BigAdmin homepage.
Much like the BBS systems did, BigAdmin encourages system administrators to submit their scripts and resources, as well as links to any useful content they found outside of BigAdmin. That wasy, the next sys admin looking for that sort of information would be able to find it. BigAdmin was to be a central repository for all sysadmins.
We introduced the BigAdmin Bucks program around 2001-2002, to reward users for their submissions with points that can be traded in for BigAdmin logo shirts, mugs, hats and more. This is still in effect today at the BigAdmin Bucks Page.
Soon after the initial release, BigAdmin started to become not only the landing place for the Solaris installer, but for System Administration information as a whole for Sun and Solaris users.
The Solaris Installation process that housed the Installation Kiosk as well as BigAdmin remained intact throughout the life of Solaris 8 as well as Solaris 9, but was removed with the new installation processes that were introduced with the release of Solaris 10.
A key part of BigAdmin - the Hardware Compatibility List for Solaris and OpenSolaris has continuously grown, and will soon include listings for Virtualization platforms as well. People who install Solaris and OpenSolaris can now automatically submit system information to the BigAdmin HCL, and add to the amount of systems that can run Solaris.
As BigAdmin continued to grow, more information became housed directly on the site, as opposed to only being links to other resources outside of our domain such as Feature Articles, guest writers, XPert sessions, partnerships with Solaris Documentation, and more.
BigAdmin has now grown to include the BigAdmin Newsletter, the BigAdmin Blog, the BigAdmin Wiki, as well as the BigAdmin Twitter page and the BigAdmin Facebook Fan page.
It's going to be interesting to combine a company that knows how to make great products with a company that knows how to make a great deal of money.
While that's going on, the BigAdmin Crew wants you to know that we're going to keep publishing and aggregating great content and resources. We are convinced that the great products coming out of the hands and minds of our feisty engineers are just as important to you as they ever were.
In fact, they may be even more important. If you search BigAdmin today for Oracle content, you'll get 204 hits (carefully go around Angelina's elbow):
Once inside the search results page, use the pull-down menu in the light blue box to sort the results into these categories:
To find out what content we'll be adding in the future, subscribe to...
The BigAdmin Newsletter!
It's loaded with how-to content and resources.
Starting in May we're switching to a text-only version to save money. We're trying to get a feel for how that whole profit-loss thing works.
If you prefer to use your RSS reader, check out...
BigAdmin's RSS Feeds!
I do email in Mozilla Thunderbird . Its spellchecker (version 18.104.22.168) is wicked smaht. When I type "BigAdmin" it suggests "goldmine." And we didn't even have to pay for the privilege!
Truth is, it's getting that way. In fact, BigAdmin has so many resources for sysadmins that we've got a bit of a navigation problem.
To help find what you're looking for, we created different "entry points" to the content on BigAdmin. You can get to them from the tabs beside the Message of the Day tab:
They are:
Each tab gives you an easier entry point into its respective content on BigAdmin. It's not a complete solution, but it's a start. Check it out and let me know what you think.
By the way, if you use both Linux and Sun, remember that you can submit your favorite Linux-related links and content to BigAdmin right here:
Submit Link or Content to BigAdmin\\
Just tag it with the right selection and category, then check the "Linux" collection. Our Linux collection is right here:
BigAdmin Linux collection
About the Englishman....I was looking for a cartoon of an Englishman saying "We have a bit of a navigation problem," but I found this picture, instead (from www.Kouya.net):
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How to Find the Right Brain Games and Brain Exercises
Some online games to exercise your brain are better than others; these tips will help you find the right brain games to improve your memory and thinking skills….
"There is a lot of talk these days about using brain games to train your mind," says brain fitness aficionado Alex Colket, creator of PlayWithYourMind.com. "Every month, another study touts the efficacy of brain training and further emphasizes the importance of brain fitness. With this research comes an ever-growing number of brain fitness programs; now, there are thousands of so-called 'brain games' available on the internet."
But not all brain games are equal! Here are Colket's tips for finding the right brain games and brain exercises.
How to Find the Right Brain Games and Brain Exercises
Is brain training as simple as choosing brain games, playing for a few hours, and then conquering the world with your new-found brilliance? Most likely, no. Rather, there are several important factors that you should consider before thinking about brain fitness tips. The games you choose and the way you play them can determine how much you benefit from your brain exercises.
Tips for Choosing the Right Brain Games
1. Find a good "brain exercise" website. Your best bet is to find a website dedicated to games for brain training and brain fitness, as opposed to just playing the 'brain games' on larger gaming sites. In most cases, the websites dedicated to brain exercise are designed more intelligently, and are better suited to challenge you in constructive ways. Look for evidence that the game designers know something neuroscience.
2. Do something different. It's often more fun to play games that display your competence rather than expose your ineptitude, but just playing towards your strengths is not as beneficial as improving on your weaknesses. Brain games are a great tool to challenge yourself in ways that your everyday life does not – especially if you try new ways to improve your memory and thinking skills.
3. Find a brain exercise you enjoy. One condition for effective neuroplasticity (the process responsible for making changes in your brain) is attention. If you are playing something that is not engaging you and holding your attention, you're far less likely to get something from it.
Brain Games to Improve Memory, Thinking, and Brain Health will help you find cognitive exercises you enjoy.
4. Make sure the brain game gets harder as you improve. Find a game that has adjustable difficulties or progressively gets harder as you improve your memory and thinking skills. It is important that the level of challenge increases proportionately to your skill level, so you're not wasting your time playing a game that is too easy or too hard.
When You Play Brain Games…
1. Opt for regular short practice rather than prolonged sessions. You are going to get a lot more out of your work if you play a game for 15 minutes a day for a week than if you sit down and play it for two hours at once. Taking breaks and returning to the activity later helps facilitate the learning process, improves your memory, and makes certain your mind stays sharp and attentive throughout the process.
2. When possible, combine brain exercise with physical exercise. Schedule your brain training sessions after physical exercise, so your brain has plenty of blood and energy. You'll glean more from the brain games when your mind is alert and ready to learn.
3. Find ways to stay motivated. If there is a storyline or reward system for measuring your progress, get involved in it. The more motivated you are to learn and make changes, the easier it'll be to improve your memory and thinking skills. It's definitely OK to have fun with your brain exercise!
Don't forget that the foods you eat have a direct effect on your brain. Read What Are the Best Brain Vitamins? 10 Brain Improvement Tips.
If you have any thoughts on Colket's brain games and brain exercises, please comment below…Colket also contributed How to Improve Your Memory and Concentration, here on Quips & Tips for Achieving Your Goals.
Alex Colket is an amateur neuroscientist, professional game developer, and brain fitness junkie. Visit Play With Your Mind to check out his 100+ brain fitness games, or track him on twitter to follow his musings on neuroplasticity, sustainability and cognitive health.
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Thanks for the tips in choosing an effective brain game. As there are innumerable brain games available it is most important to choose one that will really boost our memory power.
The nature of the brain is similar body muscles in many ways. If it is stimulated and made to work, it gets stronger and if it is not used it gets weaker. However care should be taken to not over stimulate it. Just as over training a muscle leads to injuries, stimulating the brain beyond its capacity might impair its strength.
Remember, brain training is a learning process, and as is the case with any such process, it takes time and effort. In all likelihood, you will not notice any immediate changes, but if you keep up with your exercise and training you should experience measurable improvements in your cognition. Where these improvements take place and how they manifest themselves will depend on what sort of exercises you are doing and how much you are doing them… and even then there will be considerable variation from person to person as each of our minds is unique.
But yes, if you pick some memory exercises aimed at improving your memory for names and dates, and stick to them, in time you should definitely notice improvement in that area, and possibly in other aspects of memory as well.
This was an interesting article, I like the idea of thinking about the best ways to play brain games, not just to play them.
I have a question. How do you know if your brain exercises actually work? Do you remember things better, like names and dates? I have no way to measure if the brain games are effective.
Well said. Anyone looking for a brain fitness product will soon find that choosing an affordable but effective product can be quite a challenge. (Since the brain fitness industry is relatively young the cost of a product does not necessarily indicate its quality.)
In terms of effectiveness, a study last year on Improving Fluid Intelligence by Training Working Memory (PNAS April 2008) recorded increases in mental agility (fluid intelligence) of more than 40% after 19 days of focused brain training — thirty minutes per day. I was so impressed that I contacted the research team and developed a software program using the same method — Mind Sparke Brain Fitness.
Brain Fitness Pro has since been selected as a Top Ten gift pick by PC Mag and has been chosen by top brain gym vibrantBrains as an addition to their lineup.
Effective, Affordable Brain Training Software
Now this would be great for teenagers and a good alternative to video games.


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U.S. Open: Billy Casper recalls his Arnie-like charge in '66
Meanwhile, Casper won 21 more times on the PGA Tour up until 1975, including the 1970 Masters, his third major title.
Casper has been getting a lot of attention this spring since the release of his autobiography "The Big Three and Me," co-authored by Deseret News columnist Lee Benson. He is spending part of his week at the Olympic Club, autographing copies of his book.
In 1966, Miller was a 19-year-old freshman at BYU who had grown up playing the Olympic Club. He first played it when he was 12 and was a junior member throughout his teenage years. So he knew the Olympic Club, with its narrow and sloping tree-lined fairways as well as anyone.
"I must have played a thousand rounds at Olympic over the years, sometimes a hundred a year," Miller told the San Francisco Examiner.
With his slender build and blond hair, Miller finished as the low amateur and tied for eighth place overall in 1966, 12 strokes behind Casper and Palmer, after rounds of 70, 72, 74 and 74.
Miller credited his experience playing the Olympic Club as a teenager for his later success on the PGA Tour.
"When I went on tour, I thought everything was flat ground after playing the super-tough course Olympic Club was," Miller said.
One of his few regrets in golf was that he couldn't play a U.S. Open at the Olympic while he was in his prime, as the Open didn't come back to the Olympic until 1987.
"My one regret was that the Open didn't come to Olympic when I was playing well," he said.
Clearwater was just a rookie on the PGA Tour when he shot a third-round 64, passing 53 players in just one round. He had six birdies and saved par four times in tying the course record. He was paired with legendary Tom Watson in the final group for the final round. However, Clearwater struggled all day and finished with a 9-over-par 79 and ended up in a tie for 31st place.
Clearwater had won his first PGA event a month earlier in Fort Worth at the Colonial and he would win later in the year at the Centel Classic.
But who knows how his life might have changed had he been able to play better in the final round with Watson and perhaps win a U.S. Open title? Clearwater never won another PGA tournament after 1987.
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Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians
Fischer, Lou
Fischer, Lou, bass, educator, author; b. San Antonio, TX, 25 July 1952. His parents were Ralph E. Fischer and Jessie O. Fischer. His brother is James P. Fischer. His deceased brother and sister were William C. Fischer and Winnie C. Fischer.
He began playing guitar at an early age during family gatherings after dinner. He was soon featured on a weekly radio broadcast with his brother's rock group each Saturday as a lead solo guitarist. At age eleven Lou became interested in being a drummer, and was good enough to join a local r&b group. When the group could not find a replacement for the bass player, Lou volunteered to have a friend play drums and moved over to the bass. At fifteen, Lou was asked to join a popular local salsa band. A Euphonium/tuba player in middle/high school, Lou was selected to attend North Texas State University on a small tuba scholarship, and auditioned on electric bass there for the jazz lab band program. He remained in Dallas, Texas after college until he joined the Woody Herman Band in 1976. Upon leaving Herman, he returned to Dallas until 1979, when he left to Los Angeles to join The Crusaders, with Joe Sample, Wilton Felder, and Stix Hooper. While residing in Los Angeles, Lou made many contacts and performed with many established artists and groups. Lou returned to Dallas and started his own big band. In 1986, he left Texas for Colorado, and in 1992 completed his BM in Jazz Studies and MA in Music. He then moved to Muncie, IN to attend Ball St. Univ as a Doctoral Assistant. Upon completion of that program (Doctor of Arts in bass performance with a secondary in theory and composition), he was hired at Capital University in Columbus, OH., were he currently is Professor of Jazz Studies. Dr. Fischer is an honorary life member of Phi Mu Alpha and was inducted into Phi Kappa Lambda at BSU.
Forty-three years in the entertainment industry include composing and/or performing over two thousand commercial advertisements, over fifty Broadway shows, and extensive touring with Bill Watrous, Red Rodney, Rich Matteson, The Crusaders, Airto, Charlie Byrd, Tony Bennett, Andy Williams, Emmy Lou Harris, and the orchestras of Woody Herman, Louis Bellson, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Tex Beneke, and Jimmy Dorsey among many others. Fischer has appeared as guest director, soloist, clinician, and/or adjudicator at jazz festivals in Canada, Japan, Korea, Great Britain, Scandinavia, Europe, Mexico, and at over one hundred high schools/colleges in the United States. He has directed the all-state jazz bands of Texas, Illinois, Oklahoma, and Indiana and teaches in several summer jazz camps. He's held adjunct faculty positions are University of Denver 1990-92, Instructor Applied Jazz Bass, Basic and Advanced Jazz Improvisation and the University of Texas at Dallas 1983-84, Instructor Applied Jazz Bass.
Lou Fischer Music Publishing, Inc. 1982-95. He currently performs frequently with the Shelly Berg Trio,, and plays the Yamaha Silent Bass exclusively. He has also performed with Tito Puente, Clark Terry, Jiggs Whigham, Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, Tony Bennett, Dave Liebman, Jon Faddis, Louis Bellson, Ed Thigpen, Lee Konitz, Ed Shaughnessy, Peter Erskine, John Abercrombie, Steve Kahn, Randy Brecker, Benny Golson, Curtis Fuller, Chuck Mangione, Joe Lovano, Louis Bellson, Jimmy Heath, The Columbus Jazz Orchestra and many others.
His children are a son, Patrick Taylor, born 1983, and a daughter, Emily Christina Gail, born 1989. His wife is Mary Ann Fischer.
Recordings as performer:
North Texas State University One O'Clock Lab Band: 25th Anniversary Celebration (1975), Lab '72, Lab'72-73 "LIVE!", Lab '73, Fifty Years of North Texas Jazz (1997); Lou Fischer's Big Band: The Legend (1981), Royal St. (1983), The Never Ending Blues (1986), Zoot Suit (1992); Thom Mason: Be Do Have; John Gary: Clouds; Pete Petersen/Collection Orchestra: Playing In The Park; Pete Brewer: Dancing Visions; Shelly Berg/Lou Fischer featuring Bill Watrous: Why Not! (Unreleased to date); Jeff Jarvis Solo Album (Unreleased to date); Rich Matteson Sextet featuring Louis Bellson: Pardon Our Dust (1990);Bill Watrous: Bone-i-fied (1992), A Time For Love (1993); SPECTRUM: Capital University Jazz Faculty (1996); Shelly Berg: The Joy (1996); Mile High Jazz Faculty Summer (1999); Sunny Wilkinson: High Wire (1999); Frank Mantooth: A Miracle (1999); Columbus Jazz Orchestra: Band at Work: Twenty-Five Years; YAMAHA Young Performing Artists Awards Concert (2001); Steve Houghton: The Manne We Love: Gershwin Revisited as scored by John Williams, (2002); Matteson-Phillips Tubajazz Consort: Tubajazz Superhorns Live!!!, (2002); Beaux J Poo Boo, All Things Are New (2005); KVIL Christmas: Vol. II; KVIL Christmas: Vol. I; Shirley Chauvin: Sneakin' Up On You, Wax Wing; High Rise: High Rise, Brown Door (1977); Sam Nix: Expressions, Rainbow; David Meece: David, Myrrh; Dave & Shirley Harris: Dave & Shirley Harris Trio, DSH; POCO, Richie Faray: Reunion Tour, Demo
Radio and television broadcasts:
"CBS Sunday Morning" Dr. Billy Taylor w/Red Rodney Quintet 1992
NPR Radio, Live from Four Queens w/Bill Watrous Quartet, Las Vegas, NV 1991, 92
NPR Radio, Austin City Limits w/High Rise, Austin, TX 1979
NPR Radio, Texas Homegrown Concerts w/High Rise, Austin, TX 1978
"A Man Called Sloan": starring Robert Conrad
"Best of Bette Midler": starring Jacklyn Frost
"PM Magazine"
Two Thousand Plus National Jingles Including [but not limited to):
Church's ChickenHoliday InnSix Flags Over Texas
Marriott Theme ParksSea World Theme ParksKWGN Movie Theme
Kentucky Fried ChickenHeineken Greyhound
Texas Rangers Baseball Wet Ones
Recordings as composer/arranger and/or conductor:
BEAUX J POO BOO, All Things Are New, Summit, 2005
DVD: OMNI VIDEO, TMEA 2002 Texas All-State Jazz Ensemble, (2002)
TMEA 2002 Texas All-State Jazz Ensemble, Mark Records (2002)
IMEA 1998 Indiana All-State Jazz Ensemble, Suttman Productions (1998)
SPECTRUM, Capital University Jazz Faculty (1996)
Shelly Berg, The Joy, DMP (1996)
U.S. Air Force Falconaires Thanks for the Memories (1994)
Shelly Berg/Lou Fischer featuring Bill Watrous: Why Not!, Unreleased to date
Lou Fischer's Big Band:
Zoot Suit, Mark (1992)
The Never Ending Blues, Mark Records (1986)
Royal St., Sea Breeze (1983)
The Legend, LFM (1981)
Shirley Chauvin: Sneakin' Up On You, Wax Wing
High Rise: High Rise, Brown Door (1977)
Published Compositions/Commissioned Works:
Transitions - IllinoisWesleyan University Jazz Ensemble
Weather You Needn't - Phi Mu Alpha, Ball State University
All Things Considered - Phi Mu Alpha,, Louisiana Tech University
Published Compositions/Large Jazz Ensemble:
*The Two of You, Bass Ball,
Shades of Winter, The D.U. Stomp,
*For My Son,*Colours,
*Sasquatch,While You're Down There,
Secrets, I Wonder Why, Can You Feel The Rush, Jessie
Published Compositions/Small Jazz Ensemble (Various Instrumentation):
Angel Fire, From Me To You,
Chinatown, Blue Ridge,
In The Morning,Menudo,
*Deedle, Deedle,On The Sly,
Samba After,Scattered Thoughts,
The Great Escape,Sonia,
Xanadu,The Moment After,
With All My Love
Registered Works/Commissioned Arrangements-Symphony Orchestra:
My Indiana - Muncie Symphony Orchestra
Compositions/Arrangements-Studio Orchestra (Various Instrumentation):
Santa BarbaraWindsong
French FryAnna
LadybirdClose To You
EvergreenThe Rush
Unpublished Chamber Music:
Solitude - Contrabass/Piano
Planet J - Brass Quintet/Electric Bass
Anita - Jazz Quintet
Compositions/Symphony Orchestra:
**Shades of Winter (Mt. Evans Suite) - Tone Poem (Four Movements)
Works by Fischer:
A Comparison of Jazz Studies Curricula in Master's Programs in the United States
University Microfilms Incorporated 2000
Rhythm Section Workshop for Jazz Band Directors, DVD/Teacher's Manual, Five Workbooks, play-a-long CD, ALFRED Music Publishing 2006-prsent
Stylistic Etudes In The Jazz Idiom, Second Edition
Hal Leonard Music Inc. 1996-present
(Editor): Jazz Improvisation: The Goal Note Method
Lou Fischer Music Pub., Inc., Evergreen 1990
Stylistic Etudes In The Jazz Idiom
Lou Fischer Music Pub., Inc., Evergreen 1988
Journal Articles:
Jazz Ensemble New Music
IAJE Jazz Journal May 2003, Vol XXXVI, No. 6
A Typical Master's Program in the United States
IAJE Jazz Journal May 2003, Vol XXXVI, No. 6
Jazz Ensemble New Music
IAJE Jazz Journal May 2001, Vol XXXIII, No. 6
New Music Reading Session
IAJE Jazz Journal July 1996, Vol XXIX, No. 1
Practice Habits
Yamaha New Ways: In Music Education Fall 1995, Vol II, No. 1
At the Pinnacle of Jazz, An Interview with Rufus Reid
The Instrumentalist March 1995, Vol 49, No. 8
IAJE Anaheim Session
IAJE Jazz Journal July 1995, VOl XXVIII, No. 1
Jazz Improvisation: A Holistic Viewpoint
IAJE Jazz Journal May 1994, Vol XXVI, No. 4
IAJE Jazz Band Sight-Reading Library
IAJE Jazz Journal March 1994, Vol XXVI, No. 3
Setting Up The Big Band
IAJE Jazz Journal Spring 1990, Vol XXII, No. 4
Review of New Sight Reading Charts from the 1990 IAJE Convention
IAJE Jazz Journal Apr-May 1990, Vol XXII, No. 4
New Music Sight Reading
IAJE Jazz Journal Spring 1989, Vol XXI, No. 4
Electric Bass Techniques
IAJE Jazz Journal Apr-May 1988, Vol XX, No. 4
Ohio Arts Council Premier Composition Fellowship Award 1998
Greater Columbus Arts Council Composition Fellowship Award 1997
Ohio Music Educator's Association Jazz Events Chair -Professional Conference 1998, 200
Arts MidWest Meet the Composer Grant Recipient 1996
International Association for Jazz Education
International Executive Board-United States Representative 2004-present
Ohio, State Chapter President 2001-03
Outstanding Musicianship Awards
Elmhurst Intercollegiate Jazz Festival 1993-94
University of Northern Colorado Jazz Festival 1990-92
Ameritech Website Design Workshop Grant Recipient 1999
Tri-C Jazz Festival Outstanding Arranger/Composer Award 1998
Carnegie Foundation U.S. Professor of the Year Nomination 1996
Gerhold Award Grant Recipient 1996
Eastern Lutheran College Association Grant Recipient 1996
Eastern Lutheran College Association Grant Recipient 1995
Directed All State Jazz Ensembles of: Texas, Colorado, North Dakota, Louisiana, Indiana, Illinois
Contact information:
Dr. Lou Fischer
5940 Carnegie Cove Court
Columbus, OH 43213
(614) 598-6116


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Let's have a chat on what cats signified for the Roman Empire.
Let's have a chat on what cats signified for the Roman Empire.
Sorry I meant the EGYPTIAN EMPIRE OK!!!
Being gone not working out for you?
Paired with The Editor.
I refuse to discuss Egyptian cats with you.
There are two feline gods in the Egyptian Culture: Sekhmet and Bastet, being Sekhmet the goddess of pestilence and "bad things" and Bastet the goddess of fertility.
What name did you come up with for your latest alt?
Paired with The Editor.
Was it by chance the one that made the thread about miss raichu becoming a mod?
Paired with The Editor.
Remember CARCASS NANAKI?
Sounds fun. Almost like World Domination. But that's my job.
omae wa mou shindeiru


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The Scopes Trial
Homo Neanderthalensis
by H.L. Mencken
(The Baltimore Evening Sun, June 29, 1925)
Such obscenities as the forthcoming trial of the Tennessee evolutionist, if they serve no other purpose, at least call attention dramatically to the fact that enlightenment, among mankind, is very narrowly dispersed. It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone -- that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man of, say, the Eighteenth Century, and is far more civilized. This assumption is quite erroneous. The men of the educated minority, no doubt, know more than their predecessors, and of some of them, perhaps, it may be said that they are more civilized -- though I should not like to be put to giving names -- but the great masses of men, even in this inspired republic, are precisely where the mob was at the dawn of history. They are ignorant, they are dishonest, they are cowardly, they are ignoble. They know little if anything that is worth knowing, and there is not the slightest sign of a natural desire among them to increase their knowledge.
Such immortal vermin, true enough, get their share of the fruits of human progress, and so they may be said, in a way, to have their part in it. The most ignorant man, when he is ill, may enjoy whatever boons and usufructs modern medicine may offer -- that is, provided he is too poor to choose his own doctor. He is free, if he wants to, to take a bath. The literature of the world is at his disposal in public libraries. He may look at works of art. He may hear good music. He has at hand a thousand devices for making life less wearisome and more tolerable: the telephone, railroads, bichloride tablets, newspapers, sewers, correspondence schools, delicatessen. But he had no more to do with bringing these things into the world than the horned cattle in the fields, and he does no more to increase them today than the birds of the air.
On the contrary, he is generally against them, and sometimes with immense violence. Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority of men. Every valuable thing that has been added to the store of man's possessions has been derided by them when it was new, and destroyed by them when they had the power. They have fought every new truth ever heard of, and they have killed every truth-seeker who got into their hands.
The so-called religious organizations which now lead the war against the teaching of evolution are nothing more, at bottom, than conspiracies of the inferior man against his betters. They mirror very accurately his congenital hatred of knowledge, his bitter enmity to the man who knows more than he does, and so gets more out of life. Certainly it cannot have gone unnoticed that their membership is recruited, in the overwhelming main, from the lower orders -- that no man of any education or other human dignity belongs to them. What they propose to do, at bottom and in brief, is to make the superior man infamous -- by mere abuse if it is sufficient, and if it is not, then by law.
Such organizations, of course, must have leaders; there must be men in them whose ignorance and imbecility are measurably less abject than the ignorance and imbecility of the average. These super-Chandala often attain to a considerable power, especially in democratic states. Their followers trust them and look up to them; sometimes, when the pack is on the loose, it is necessary to conciliate them. But their puissance cannot conceal their incurable inferiority. They belong to the mob as surely as their dupes, and the thing that animates them is precisely the mob's hatred of superiority. Whatever lies above the level of their comprehension is of the devil. A glass of wine delights civilized men; they themselves, drinking it, would get drunk. Ergo, wine must be prohibited. The hypothesis of evolution is credited by all men of education; they themselves can't understand it. Ergo, its teaching must be put down.
This simple fact explains such phenomena as the Tennessee buffoonery. Nothing else can. We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as of something going on in a small minority, perpetually beleaguered in a few walled towns. Now and then the horde of barbarians outside breaks through, and we have an armed effort to halt the process. That is, we have a Reformation, a French Revolution, a war for democracy, a Great Awakening. The minority is decimated and driven to cover. But a few survive -- and a few are enough to carry on.
The inferior man's reasons for hating knowledge are not hard to discern. He hates it because it is complex -- because it puts an unbearable burden upon his meager capacity for taking in ideas. Thus his search is always for short cuts. All superstitions are such short cuts. Their aim is to make the unintelligible simple, and even obvious. So on what seem to be higher levels. No man who has not had a long and arduous education can understand even the most elementary concepts of modern pathology. But even a hind at the plow can grasp the theory of chiropractic in two lessons. Hence the vast popularity of chiropractic among the submerged -- and of osteopathy, Christian Science and other such quackeries with it. They are idiotic, but they are simple -- and every man prefers what he can understand to what puzzles and dismays him.
The popularity of Fundamentalism among the inferior orders of men is explicable in exactly the same way. The cosmogonies that educated men toy with are all inordinately complex. To comprehend their veriest outlines requires an immense stock of knowledge, and a habit of thought. It would be as vain to try to teach to peasants or to the city proletariat as it would be to try to teach them to streptococci. But the cosmogony of Genesis is so simple that even a yokel can grasp it. It is set forth in a few phrases. It offers, to an ignorant man, the irresistible reasonableness of the nonsensical. So he accepts it with loud hosannas, and has one more excuse for hating his betters.
Politics and the fine arts repeat the story. The issues that the former throw up are often so complex that, in the present state of human knowledge, they must remain impenetrable, even to the most enlightened men. How much easier to follow a mountebank with a shibboleth -- a Coolidge, a Wilson or a Roosevelt! The arts, like the sciences, demand special training, often very difficult. But in jazz there are simple rhythms, comprehensible even to savages.
What all this amounts to is that the human race is divided into two sharply differentiated and mutually antagonistic classes, almost two genera -- a small minority that plays with ideas and is capable of taking them in, and a vast majority that finds them painful, and is thus arrayed against them, and against all who have traffic with them. The intellectual heritage of the race belongs to the minority, and to the minority only. The majority has no more to do with it than it has to do with ecclesiastic politics on Mars. In so far as that heritage is apprehended, it is viewed with enmity. But in the main it is not apprehended at all.
That is why Beethoven survives. Of the 110,000,000 so-called human beings who now live in the United States, flogged and crazed by Coolidge, Rotary, the Ku Klux and the newspapers, it is probable that at least 108,000,000 have never heard of him at all. To these immortals, made in God's image, one of the greatest artists the human race has ever produced is not even a name. So far as they are concerned he might as well have died at birth. The gorgeous and incomparable beauties that he created are nothing to them. They get no value out of the fact that he existed. They are completely unaware of what he did in the world, and would not be interested if they were told.
The fact saves good Ludwig's bacon. His music survives because it lies outside the plane of the popular apprehension, like the colors beyond violet or the concept of honor. If it could be brought within range, it would at once arouse hostility. Its complexity would challenge; its lace of moral purpose would affright. Soon there would be a movement to put it down, and Baptist clergymen would range the land denouncing it, and in the end some poor musician, taken in the un-American act of playing it, would be put on trial before a jury of Ku Kluxers, and railroaded to the calaboose.
The Scopes Trial
Mencken Finds Daytonians
Full of Sickening Doubts
About Value of Publicity
by H.L. Mencken
(The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 9, 1925)
Dayton, Tenn., July 9. -- On the eve of the great contest Dayton is full of sickening surges and tremors of doubt. Five or six weeks ago, when the infidel Scopes was first laid by the heels, there was no uncertainty in all this smiling valley. The town boomers leaped to the assault as one man. Here was an unexampled, almost a miraculous chance to get Dayton upon the front pages, to make it talked about, to put it upon the map. But how now?
Today, with the curtain barely rung up and the worst buffooneries to come, it is obvious to even town boomers that getting upon the map, like patriotism, is not enough. The getting there must be managed discreetly, adroitly, with careful regard to psychological niceties. The boomers of Dayton, alas, had no skill at such things, and the experts they called in were all quacks. The result now turns the communal liver to water. Two months ago the town was obscure and happy. Today it is a universal joke.
I have been attending the permanent town meeting that goes on in Robinson's drug store, trying to find out what the town optimists have saved from the wreck. All I can find is a sort of mystical confidence that God will somehow come to the rescue to reward His old and faithful partisans as they deserve -- that good will flow eventually out of what now seems to be heavily evil. More specifically, it is believed that settlers will be attracted to the town as to some refuge from the atheism of the great urban Sodoms and Gomorrahs.
But will these refugees bring any money with them? Will they buy lots and build houses, Will they light the fires of the cold and silent blast furnace down the railroad tracks? On these points, I regret to report, optimism has to call in theology to aid it. Prayer can accomplish a lot. It can cure diabetes, find lost pocketbooks and restrain husbands from beating their wives. But is prayer made any more efficacious by giving a circus first? Coming to this thought, Dayton begins to sweat.
The town, I confess, greatly surprised me. I expected to find a squalid Southern village, with darkies snoozing on the horse-blocks, pigs rooting under the houses and the inhabitants full of hookworm and malaria. What I found was a country town full of charm and even beauty -- a somewhat smallish but nevertheless very attractive Westminster or Balair.
The houses are surrounded by pretty gardens, with cool green lawns and stately trees. The two chief streets are paved from curb to curb. The stores carry good stocks and have a metropolitan air, especially the drug, book, magazine, sporting goods and soda-water emporium of the estimable Robinson. A few of the town ancients still affect galluses and string ties, but the younger bucks are very nattily turned out. Scopes himself, even in his shirt sleeves, would fit into any college campus in America save that of Harvard alone.
Nor is there any evidence in the town of that poisonous spirit which usually shows itself when Christian men gather to defend the great doctrine of their faith. I have heard absolutely no whisper that Scopes is in the pay of the Jesuits, or that the whisky trust is backing him, or that he is egged on by the Jews who manufacture lascivious moving pictures. On the contrary, the Evolutionists and the Anti-Evolutionists seem to be on the best of terms, and it is hard in a group to distinguish one from another.
The basic issues of the case, indeed, seem to be very little discussed at Dayton. What interests everyone is its mere strategy. By what device, precisely, will Bryan trim old Clarence Darrow? Will he do it gently and with every delicacy of forensics, or will he wade in on high gear and make a swift butchery of it? For no one here seems to doubt that Bryan will win -- that is, if the bout goes to a finish. What worries the town is the fear that some diabolical higher power will intervene on Darrow's side -- that is, before Bryan heaves him through the ropes.
The lack of Christian heat that I have mentioned is probably due in part to the fact that the fundamentalists are in overwhelming majority as far as the eye can reach -- according to most local statisticians, in a majority of at least nine-tenths. There are, in fact, only two downright infidels in all Rhea county, and one of them is charitably assumed to be a bit balmy. The other, a yokel roosting far back in the hills, is probably simply a poet got into the wrong pew. The town account of him is to the effect that he professes to regard death as a beautiful adventure.
When the local ecclesiastics begin alarming the peasantry with word pictures of the last sad scene, and sulphurous fumes begin to choke even Unitarians, this skeptical rustic comes forward with his argument that it is foolish to be afraid of what one knows so little about -- that, after all, there is no more genuine evidence that anyone will ever go to hell than there is that the Volstead act will ever be enforced.
Such blasphemous ideas naturally cause talk in a Baptist community, but both of the infidels are unmolested. Rhea county, in fact, is proud of its tolerance, and apparently with good reason. The klan has never got a foothold here, though it rages everywhere else in Tennessee. When the first kleagles came in they got the cold shoulder, and pretty soon they gave up the county as hopeless. It is run today not by anonymous daredevils in white nightshirts, but by well-heeled Free-masons in decorous white aprons. In Dayton alone there are sixty thirty-second-degree Masons -- an immense quota for so small a town. They believe in keeping the peace, and so even the stray Catholics of the town are treated politely, though everyone naturally regrets they are required to report to the Pope once a week.
It is probably this unusual tolerance, and not any extraordinary passion for the integrity of Genesis, that has made Dayton the scene of a celebrated case, and got its name upon the front pages, and caused its forward-looking men to begin to wonder uneasily if all advertising is really good advertising. The trial of Scopes is possible here simply because it can be carried on here without heat -- because no one will lose any sleep even if the devil comes to the aid of Darrow and Malone, and Bryan gets a mauling. The local intelligentsia venerate Bryan as a Christian, but it was not as a Christian that they called him in, but as one adept at attracting the newspaper boys -- in brief, as a showman. As I have said, they now begin to mistrust the show, but they still believe that he will make a good one, win or lose.
Elsewhere, North or South, the combat would become bitter. Here it retains the lofty qualities of the duello. I gather the notion, indeed, that the gentlemen who are most active in promoting it are precisely the most lacking in hot conviction -- that it is, in its local aspects, rather a joust between neutrals than a battle between passionate believers. Is it a mere coincidence that the town clergy have been very carefully kept out of it? There are several Baptist brothers here of such powerful gifts that when they begin belaboring sinners the very rats of the alleys flee to the hills. They preach dreadfully. But they are not heard from today. By some process to me unknown they have been induced to shut up -- a far harder business, I venture, than knocking out a lion with a sandbag. But the sixty thirty-second degree Masons of Dayton have somehow achieved it.
Thus the battle joins and the good red sun shines down. Dayton lies in a fat and luxuriant valley. The bottoms are green with corn, pumpkins and young orchards and the hills are full of reliable moonshiners, all save one of them Christian men. We are not in the South here, but hanging on to the North. Very little cotton is grown in the valley. The people in politics are Republicans and put Coolidge next to Lincoln and John Wesley. The fences are in good repair. The roads are smooth and hard. The scene is set for a high-toned and even somewhat swagger combat. When it is over all the participants save Bryan will shake hands.
The Scopes Trial
Impossibility of Obtaining Fair Jury
Insures Scopes' Conviction,
Says Mencken
by H.L. Mencken
(The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 10, 1925)
Dayton, Tenn., July 10. -- The trial of the infidel Scopes, beginning here this hot, lovely morning, will greatly resemble, I suspect, the trial of a prohibition agent accused of mayhem in Union Hill, N.J. That is to say, it will be conducted with the most austere regard for the highest principles of jurisprudence. Judge and jury will go to extreme lengths to assure the prisoner the last and least of his rights. He will be protected in his person and feelings by the full military and naval power of the State of Tennessee. No one will be permitted to pull his nose, to pray publicly for his condemnation or even to make a face at him. But all the same he will be bumped off inevitably when the time comes, and to the applause of all right-thinking men.
The real trial, in truth, will not begin until Scopes is convicted and ordered to the hulks. Then the prisoner will be the Legislature of Tennessee, and the jury will be that great fair, unimpassioned body of enlightened men which has already decided that a horse hair put into a bottle will turn into a snake and that the Kaiser started the late war. What goes on here is simply a sort of preliminary hearing, with music by the village choir. For it will be no more possible in this Christian valley to get a jury unprejudiced against Scopes than would be possible in Wall Street to get a jury unprejudiced against a Bolshevik.
I speak of prejudice in its purely philosophical sense. As I wrote yesterday, there is an almost complete absence, in these pious hills, of the ordinary and familiar malignancy of Christian men. If the Rev. Dr. Crabbe ever spoke of bootleggers as humanely and affectionately as the town theologians speak of Scopes, and even Darrow and Malone, his employers would pelt him with their spyglasses and sit on him until the ambulance came from Mount Hope. There is absolutely no bitterness on tap. But neither is there any doubt. It has been decided by acclamation, with only a few infidels dissenting, that the hypothesis of evolution is profane, inhumane and against God, and all that remains is to translate that almost unanimous decision into the jargon of the law and so have done.
The town boomers have banqueted Darrow as well as Bryan, but there is no mistaking which of the two has the crowd, which means the venire of tried and true men. Bryan has been oozing around the country since his first day here, addressing this organization and that, presenting the indubitable Word of God in his caressing, ingratiating way, and so making unanimity doubly unanimous. From the defense yesterday came hints that this was making hay before the sun had legally begun to shine -- even that it was a sort of contempt of court. But no Daytonian believes anything of the sort. What Bryan says doesn't seem to these congenial Baptists and Methodists to be argument; it seems to be a mere graceful statement of the obvious.
Meanwhile, reinforcements continue to come in, some of them from unexpected sources. I had the honor of being present yesterday when Col. Patrick Callahan, of Louisville, marched up at the head of his cohort of 250,000,000 Catholic fundamentalists. The two colonels embraced, exchanged a few military and legal pleasantries and then retired up a steep stairway to the office of the Hicks brothers to discuss strategy. Colonel Callahan's followers were present, of course, only by a legal fiction; the town of Dayton would not hold so large an army. In the actual flesh there were only the colonel himself and his aide-de-camp. Nevertheless, the 250,000,000 were put down as present and recorded as voting.
Later on I had the misfortune to fall into a dispute with Colonel Callahan on a point of canon law. It was my contention that the position of the Roman Church, on matters of doctrine, is not ordinarily stated by laymen -- that such matters are usually left to high ecclesiastical authorities, headed by the Bishop of Rome. I also contended, perhaps somewhat fatuously, that there seemed to be a considerable difference of opinion regarding organic evolution among these authorities -- that it was possible to find in their writings both ingenious arguments for it and violent protests against it. All these objections Colonel Callahan waived away with a genial gesture. He was here, he said, to do what he could for the authority of the Sacred Scriptures and the aiding and comforting of his old friend, Bryan, and it was all one to him whether atheists yelled or not. Then he began to talk about prohibition, which he favors, and the germ theory of diseases, which he regards as bilge.
A somewhat more plausible volunteer has turned up in the person of Pastor T.T. Martin, of Blue Mountain, Miss. He has hired a room and stocked it with pamphlets bearing such titles as "Evolution a Menace," "Hell and the High Schools" and "God or Gorilla," and addresses connoisseurs of scientific fallacy every night on a lot behind the Courthouse. Pastor Martin, a handsome and amiable old gentleman with a great mop of snow-white hair, was a professor of science in a Baptist college for years, and has given profound study to the biological sections of the Old Testament.
He told me today that he regarded the food regulations in Leviticus as so sagacious that their framing must have been a sort of feat even for divinity. The flesh of the domestic hog, he said, is a rank poison as ordinarily prepared for the table, though it is probably harmless when smoked and salted, as in bacon. He said that his investigations had shown that seven and a half out of every thirteen cows are quite free of tuberculosis, but that twelve out of every thirteen hogs have it in an advanced and highly communicable form. The Jews, protected by their piety against devouring pork, are immune to the disease. In all history, he said, there is authentic record of but one Jew who died of tuberculosis.
The presence of Pastor Martin and Colonel Callahan has given renewed confidence to the prosecution. The former offers proof that men of science are, after all, not unanimously atheists, and the latter that there is no division between Christians in the face of the common enemy. But though such encouragements help, they are certainly not necessary. All they really supply is another layer of icing on the cake. Dayton will give Scopes a rigidly fair and impartial trial. All his Constitutional rights will be jealously safeguarded. The question whether he voted for or against Coolidge will not be permitted to intrude itself into the deliberations of the jury, or the gallant effort of Colonel Bryan to get at and establish the truth. He will be treated very politely. Dayton, indeed, is proud of him, as Sauk Center, Minn., is proud of Sinclair Lewis and Whittingham, Vt., of Brigham Young. But it is lucky for Scopes that sticking pins into Genesis is still only a misdemeanor in Tennessee, punishable by a simple fine, with no alternative of the knout, the stone pile or exile to the Dry Tortugas.


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Sixth-seeded UC Santa Barbara upset third-seeded UCLA Saturday night in the first round of the MPSF playoffs in Pauley Pavilion.
UC Santa Barbara (18-10) won 28-30, 27-30, 30-28, 32-30, 15-8 in two hours and 22 minutes before a raucous crowd of 874.
Although starters Jonathan Acosta and Scott Morrow returned to the lineup for UCLA after nursing injuries, the Bruins were unable to contain UCSB senior Andy Rivera, who slammed 30 kills (.542) and recorded nine digs and five total blocks.
Acosta led the Bruins with 22 kills (.381) and Morrow added 11 (.381) and four block assists as three other UCLA players tallied double-digit kills. Junior Cameron Mount had 16 kills (.345) and senior Matt Komer added 14.
The Bruins lost Game 5 on a variety of untimely mistakes. The Gauchos scored five straight points after a 5-5 deadlock. Two blocks by the Gauchos, a long spike attempt by Mount, an ace by UCSB's Jan Carlo Zegarra and a kill by Rivera accounted for the run.
The Bruins' season ends with an overall record of 25-7.