Category Archives: Sun

Oracle buys Sun Microsystems

Well, the news hit the two company sites at around 12:30 BST by my reckoning.  Sun.com and Oracle.com both reveled the news at around the same time (sun clicky and oracle clicky <- pics of the sites on the day).

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Sun Week Fortyone

This week starts on Tuesday, Monday being Easter Monday and a day dedicated to getting over a “chocolate hangover”, whatever one of those is…

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Sun – Week Forty

This week I’m going to try and finish that email script…A while ago I was assigned the task of writing a module for our booking system.

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Sun – Week Thirtynine

Monday morning is here, we are an hour ahead of last week with the clocks going forward. It seems really sunny today, shame that my day starts off with unblocking the toilet, yuch. Anyhoo, I get into the office as … Continue reading

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rm -rf tragedy

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 … Continue reading

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Sun – Week Thirtyeight

Monday I was back in the office, Steve was out coming home from a weekend in Aber and James had started a week of touring the UK. I picked up a few tickets and knuckled down to get them done. … Continue reading

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Sun – Week Thirty Seven

This week was brilliant! I was on a training course: Solaris Internals. It was great for two reasons, firstly because I missed the French lab moving over to our lab (although now I wish I had been there), and secondly, … Continue reading

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Sun – Week Thirtysix

Monday started rather differently to usual. we had our lab staff meeting at 10am so we could include the APAC lab manager on the call, he had some interesting things to tell us about collecting statistics about how the lab … Continue reading

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Sun – Week Thirtyfive

Well, this week really wasn’t very special. I assigned some new IP’s to a couple of machines. Evaluated quite a few bugs which were all accepted to be fixed. The most exciting things I did included talking to a very … Continue reading

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Beleg-Iâ gets an upgrade

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.

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