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Sun – Week Fourtynine

Posted on June 12, 2009 by Ben Lavery

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 … Continue reading →

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Sun – Week Fourtyeight

Posted on June 5, 2009 by Ben Lavery

Monday begins after a sleepless night, it’s so bloody warm here…I spent the morning looking at our console server, remember I was going to upgrade it? After all the preliminary work I was really afraid to touch the real thing … Continue reading →

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OpenSolaris 2009.06 Released

Posted on June 1, 2009 by Ben Lavery

It’s finally here! OpenSolaris 2009.06 has been released! Head over to opensolaris.org to download the new iso, or run `pfexec pkg image-update` (no quotes) as the user you created when you installed your machine to upgrade your current installation. Exciting … Continue reading →

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Sun – Week Fourtyseven

Posted on May 29, 2009 by Ben Lavery

This week felt really long…And I don’t really recall everything which happened, so like last week, I’ll summarise. Monday was a bank holiday, which was very lucky for me seeing as I missed my train back from Aber! Tuesday I … Continue reading →

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Sun – Week Fourtysix

Posted on May 22, 2009 by Ben Lavery

This week was another short one I’ll just add highlights for this week. Monday started with me being back on 9am starts. I then started troubleshooting a problem with a server in America which seemed to sort itself out. Tuesday … Continue reading →

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Sun – Week Fourtyfive

Posted on May 15, 2009 by Ben Lavery

Monday starts at 5:30 for me, and after getting in from Aber at 12:30, I wasn’t feeling too sharp… I’m in early all this week so we can support early workers and people in Europe who are an hour ahead … Continue reading →

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Sun – Week Fourtyfour

Posted on May 8, 2009 by Ben Lavery

This week is excellent! Monday starts off as a bank holiday, and I have Thursday and Friday off! Tuesday consisted of me pulling some vmware VM’s from a box in the lab. This shouldn’t have been difficult, but the box … Continue reading →

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Sun – Week Fortythree

Posted on May 1, 2009 by Ben Lavery

Monday starts off OK. Coming into work to find some tickets on the queue and some work to be done from last week. My main ticket is setting up an x4100 over in the 02 lab for an engineer who … Continue reading →

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Sun – Week Fortytwo

Posted on April 24, 2009 by Ben Lavery

Monday morning starts with us meeting a newtern for next year. Alex is down for a weeks experience to get used to working at sun. As a result, I’ve not actually done that much this week.

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Opensolaris Live USB Creator

Posted on April 21, 2009 by Ben Lavery

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.

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