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.
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 »
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 »
Just been alerted to this: clicky
Though if you don’t have access to a Windows box, but do already have access (or know someone with access) to an OpenSolaris box, then this method works too.
It happened a couple of weeks ago now. I plugged in my external hard drive “POCKET” and OpenSolaris mounted it under /media/POCKET. I was going to copy my films and TV series over to POCKET as I was travelling up to see Faye in Aber. Read the rest of this entry »
It happened a couple of weeks ago now, I’ve upgraded the storage in beleg-iâ. It now has 4x 500GB disks!
I have them in two mirrors, one for the boot disk and one for data. Read the rest of this entry »
I meant to blog this ages ago, and have only just remembered about it!
I wanted a way for me to access my server when I wasn’t on the local network. A friend pointed me to DynDNS, this will give you a domain name (e.g. myname.something.com) which you can update to point to your IP. However, you need a method for updating the DNS entry, this is needed because everytime I switch off my modem and turn it back on, Tiscali give me a new IP. Read the rest of this entry »
Today I took delivery of the four year old IBM Thinkpad X32. With it’s 1.8GHz Pentium M, 1GB of RAM and it’s “massive” 40gb HDD 
I thought it was an excellent machine to use as a portable OpenSolaris machine. Read the rest of this entry »
T’other day I won an IBM X32 on eBay (more on that tomorrow). I want to install OpenSolaris on the laptop, but it doesn’t have an optical drive…
I set about looking for a solution. Unfortunatly, Googling around didn’t throw up anything to begin with 
So I thought I’d record my steps as a walkthru. Read the rest of this entry »
From here: Clicky
Make sure you have various DNS domains in /etc/resolv.conf, then:
cp /etc/nsswitch.conf /etc/nsswitch.conf.BAK
cp /etc/nsswitch.dns /etc/nsswitch.conf
svcadm restart dns/client
After this, edit the file: /etc/nwam/llp Read the rest of this entry »
