Category Archives: Sun

DynDNS and my server

Posted on March 1, 2009 by Ben Lavery

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 … Continue reading →

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Sun – Week Thirtyfour

Posted on February 27, 2009 by Ben Lavery

Monday was a pretty normal Monday. I finished off that ticket about putting fibre cards into machines, and fixed a few problems that we had with it. The afternoon was spent troubleshooting a SunBlade 2000, it wasn’t booting and the … Continue reading →

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Sun – Week Thirtythree

Posted on February 20, 2009 by Ben Lavery

The weekend was great. Faye came down on Friday and went home on Sunday, we had a really nice, weekend doing not much. Parents came round on Saturday too to show Faye the photo scrapbook Mum had made me for … Continue reading →

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Sun – Week Thirtytwo

Posted on February 13, 2009 by Ben Lavery

After having a nice week off, I come into work on Monday to find myself with a ticket stuck on my queue and a meeting at 10am about said ticket… The ticket is to do with a new feature I’m … Continue reading →

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Sun – Week Thirtyone

Posted on February 6, 2009 by Ben Lavery

Week off! Woo!!! I started my time off on Saturday 31st January, I woke up at 5am, was out the house by 6:15am and waiting to catch the 7:02 train to Reading from Blackwater. Everything was good, I’d had a … Continue reading →

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Sun – Week Thirty

Posted on January 30, 2009 by Ben Lavery

Week thirty! Wow, doesn’t seem so long when you say it like that…It’s been seven months! Monday started out quite slowly, we had out afternoon meeting in the morning to talk to one of our Australian friends, but he wasn’t … Continue reading →

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Sun – Week Twentynine

Posted on January 23, 2009 by Ben Lavery

This week was very VERY busy! Monday starts with me in the lab net booting a w1100z, this old box doesn’t output it’s BIOS over the serial cable, so a keyboard and screen was attached to allow me to net … Continue reading →

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My new IBM Thinkpad X32 and wireless

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Ben Lavery

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.

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Create an OpenSolaris 2008.11 LiveUSB

Posted on January 19, 2009 by Ben Lavery

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 … Continue reading →

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Sun – Week Twentyeight

Posted on January 16, 2009 by Ben Lavery

This week took forever to finish! The week started off with a couple of light jobs. I replaced a fan in a V210 and racked up an engineers stable system (a V240). Tuesday was spent catching up on some work … Continue reading →

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