Monthly Archives: October 2008

Sun – Week Seventeen & week with Faye

Posted on October 31, 2008 by Ben Lavery

I only spent one and a half days in work this week!  Monday was spent doing some work, while Tuesday morning was spent tying up loose ends and passing other people ongoing work. I then travelled up to Aberystwyth.  I … Continue reading →

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OpenSolaris & CS101

Posted on October 31, 2008 by Ben Lavery

On Thursday 30th October, I attended the CS101 lecture in Aber uni.  I was there to give a brief talk about OpenSolaris, focusing on aspects like Zones, DTrace and ZFS.  I think it went OK, possibly pitched it a tad … Continue reading →

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Sun – Week Sixteen

Posted on October 24, 2008 by Ben Lavery

OK, writing this from the future, I can’t remember the details of this week… The main forcus for this week was playing with a blade chassis, and a load of blade servers.  I was playing with a mix of X64 … Continue reading →

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Sun – Week Fifteen

Posted on October 17, 2008 by Ben Lavery

Week Fifteen, subtitled: The small things Monday morning started with the subtitle. I saw a pigeon fall from the sky, frantically flapping it’s wings causing some leaves to scatter, it made me smile. This week I shall try to look … Continue reading →

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Sun – Week Fourteen

Posted on October 10, 2008 by Ben Lavery

Monday starts off with me looking into this jumpstart image. It turns out to be really easy! All I needed to do was to find the Solaris 10 Update 4 image, this had a file called setup_install_server (or similar), I … Continue reading →

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Sun – Week Thirteen

Posted on October 3, 2008 by Ben Lavery

Unlucky for some, will it be for me? As you possibly guess, I write parts of entries throughout the week and publish on Fridays, so at the time of writing, I have no idea if it’s going to be a … Continue reading →

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