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Picking a phone based on its case
I’m in the market for a new phone, but I’m sadly addicted to Vaja leather cases, and they don’t have a case available for all phones. This is strangely limiting my choice – if I can’t find a Vaja case, I’m less inclined to buy the phone. My curren…
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Another day, another thunderstorm, another Internet disconnect
In the height of the British summer, we are having some cold weather and, for the last few days, heavy thunderstorms. I’m no fan of the sun, but the thunderstorms cause connectivity problems for me, and that disconnects me from the Internet for a …
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Discussion on Maps book at Amazon
The book has only been out a week, and already we have questions coming in through Amazon’s new beta book discussion service. The first query is on the API versions, which, as I explain in my response, are centered about the v1 API as this was the…
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Hacking Google Maps and Google Earth Released!
Hacking Google Maps and Google Earth has been released, and should be available to order and purchase soon. I’ve also now enabled the live examples of all the techniques covered in the book, as well as adding a full list of resources (as in the bo…
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Parallels blogs my Solaris/Parallels post
The team over at Parallels noticed my Working with Solaris 10 in Parallels Desktop piece over on Coalface, and had a few nice words to say about me. In particular: For those of you unfamiliar with Martin, he’s a well respected tech journalist who …
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System Administrators Toolkit: Migrating and moving UNIX directory trees
As an extension of the original filesystem piece, I’ve taken a closer look at the methods available for simply moving around directory trees on the Unix filesystem, including across a network. Occasionally, you need to copy around an entire UNIX d…
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Using bash by default
I much prefer to use bash as my main shell, but in Solaris, you are much better off using the default shell, particularly for root, just in case there is a problem and you cannot mount the /usr directory during a boot. OK, it may not happen often …
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Copying multiple files with scp
I keep my .bash init scripts on one machine and copy them over to each machine on which I have a login. There’s various bits of logic in there to ensure that the right PATH and other values are set according to the host and/or platform. I then hav…
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Getting Solaris 10 working in Parallels
I have a few tips on getting Solaris 10 running in a virtual machine within Parallels on an Intel-based Mac OS X box, available through Getting Solaris 10 working in Parallels. I haven’t yet tried it on the MacBook Pro, but then that’s only made i…
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Getting Solaris 10 working in Parallels
I’ve just been sent the latest version of Solaris 6/06 release) and wanted to get it working in a Parallels virtual machine. Not everything is plain sailing, but with a combination of past experience and a few quick configuration changes you can g…