Category Archives: Sun

OpenIndiana

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Ben Lavery

Back last year Oracle canned the OpenSolaris project.  A group of developers forked the source and created the Illumos project which aimed to maintain the base of OpenSolaris as well as develop open code to replace the closed binaries that … Continue reading →

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Goodbye OpenSolaris

Posted on August 14, 2010 by Ben Lavery

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 … Continue reading →

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The End of an Era…

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Ben Lavery

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…

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Dissertation is over…

Posted on May 31, 2010 by Ben Lavery

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 … Continue reading →

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Sun VirtualBox becomes Oracle VirtualBox and grows into version 3.2

Posted on May 20, 2010 by Ben Lavery

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.

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Next generation Sun Ray hardware is out!

Posted on April 7, 2010 by Ben Lavery

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 … Continue reading →

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Whence and Whenceman

Posted on March 31, 2010 by Ben Lavery

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 … Continue reading →

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Sun – Week Fiftytwo

Posted on July 3, 2009 by Ben Lavery

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 … Continue reading →

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Sun – Week Fiftyone

Posted on June 26, 2009 by Ben Lavery

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 … Continue reading →

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Sun – Week Fifty

Posted on June 19, 2009 by Ben Lavery

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, … Continue reading →

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