Well, it looks like Oracle has pulled OpenSolaris. Hopefully the Illumos project will continue and make some sort of replacement for the loss.
Over the past week or so I’ve been thinking about jumping to FreeBSD, the project has ZFS which is my main requirement for a home fileserver. I’ll wait a little longer to see what Illumos is going to do, then see if the jump should be done.
Graduating on the 15th of July means that I am no longer tied to the Aberystwyth University, legally no longer a student, and at the end of my 18 year ‘career’ in education… Read the rest of this entry »
I meant to blog about this ages ago! Better late than never I suppose…
Back in April (April 22nd to be precise) I handed in two copies of my 72 page document which outlines everything about my project. I wanted to blog about my dissertation while I was doing it, but the thought was always pushed back by other thoughts of actually doing the project. Read the rest of this entry »
So Oracle had Sun for a fair while now, all of the sites have been rebranded, and finally, as of Tuesday, the stable release of VirtualBox was also rebranded. Read the rest of this entry »
Oracle have uncovered a new Sun Ray (ultra) thin client recently. They seem to have been quite quiet as I haven’t heard any news about it.
The client is called the Oracle Sun Ray 3 Plus and boasts the following features: Read the rest of this entry »
On the UNIX command line, the `which` command is great, it tells you where a command is in the system. However, if your system has two versions of the `ls` command, it will only tell you which `ls` command you are going to use when tap it in and press enter. To find all copies of any command, we need something Liam called `whence` (I inherited Liam’s bashrc file when working at Sun, and this little gem was right inside it). The .bashrc function for `whence` looks something like this: Read the rest of this entry »
After a long and hectic weekend, Monday arrived. This Monday is special, because it is my last day working at Sun Microsystems 
I woke up early and left the house at 7:30, walked to Tesco and bought some Krispy Kreme donuts 
I waited for the bus, hopping on at Blackwater station, I met Ali at Camberley as he jumped on the bus.
I had packed my badge away over the weekend by accident, so I had to go to reception and pick up a general badge. The detour didn’t bother me too much, it meant I could go to goods-in and give them a box of chocolates, thanking them for handling personal mail over the course of the year. Read the rest of this entry »
I’m on earlies this week!
Monday I came in after only having two hours of sleep and being scared by a milk float which came down the road at 3:20am! I picked up a load of tickets and started work on the most urgent ones, namely a ticket to insert some cards into a v480, reattaching some storage to the network, and battling with the 25K to net boot. Read the rest of this entry »
Summarising events this week:
Monday I got back into work and spent some more time on the KVM that wasn’t playing ball, it still isn’t now
Tuesday I had an 880 in the 02 lab which needed a new board, so that was replaced in the afternoon.
Wednesday I hooked a T1000 and an x4240 together.
Thursday I was looking at the 25k downstairs, trying to get a domain to work.
Friday I had a play with a machine and some ZFS stuff, I’m trying to figure out how I can upgrade my mirror to have two 1TB hard drives in as apposed to the two 500GB drives I have at the moment (I’m down to 100GB space left!) I also looked at adding some storage to a machine in the lab.
Well, the weekend didn’t go well…The console server didn’t get upgraded as a package caused errors in the new BE…That was most of Saturday wasted…
Monday morning was spent turning everything back on after the weekend, it was a shame as I was hoping for the lab to be silent, but the AC was already on…
Tuesday and Wednesday was spent ironing out issues to do with the lab power cycle.
Thursday I looked at a borked KVM more, it doesn’t seem to be broadcasting anything on IPv4 or IPv6…I also fixed an intrusion switch that someone had broken…
Friday I went home early to catch the train back to Melksham for my sisters birthday.
