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Teaching OpenSolaris
While looking for some information on OpenSolaris in preparation for my talk this week I came across some excellent material providing backgrounds on OpenSolaris for both instructors and students. The material is part of the Curriculum Development…
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Using the MySQL Doc source tree
I’ve mentioned a number of times that the documentation repositories that we use to build the docs are freely available, and so they are, but how do you go about using them? More and more people are getting interested in being able to work with th…
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Resources for Running Solaris OS on a Laptop
As Solaris gets more and more popular I’m seeing more and more people running Solaris on a laptop as their primary operating system. I’ve even got friends who have migrated over completely to Solaris from Linux. I’ve been using it for years and ma…
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Podcast Producer Variables
The first of a new series of articles on using and extending the functionality of Apple’s Podcast Producer has just been published (see Podcast Producer: Anatomy of a Workflow). One of the things that you might find useful when working with Workfl…
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Setting up the new T105
So yesterday I mentioned the new Dell T105 I got on special offer. Setting up Solaris 10 on this new machine is a little more complex than I would have wanted, but it’s now up and running fine. Here’s what I did to get Solaris b81 working: 1. SXDE…
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Acorn, Pixelmator and Iris alternatives to Photoshop
I’ve had Acorn in my list of applications to review for months, and I’ve only just got round to it. I wish I’d got there earlier. Acorn is quick and powerful, and that’s because it employs your GPU to do soe of the processing, and it includes a nu…
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ZFS resource update
I’m getting really deep into ZFS at the moment as I try and work out how best to use it in different environments and how it affects and alters performance on different loads. I’ve across some great ZFS resources, new and old, and blog posts surro…
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Determining Solaris Support using Sun Device Detection Tool
Want to know whether your machine is capable of running Solaris? I came across the Sun Device Detection Tool, a Java application that you can run straight from the browser (it’s a JNLP app) that will check the devices on your machine and then comp…
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Intute Science, Engineering and Technology – Full record details for Managing a grid, part 1 : network and infrastructure
One of the nice things that happens when I’m writing my articles is that while researching the content, I come across a blog post or other site that has picked up one of my articles and added it to some catalogue or other. Here’s an example I just…
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Updating library paths
This is more of a personal note than anything else, but hopefully it might filter to the top of web searches too. If you want to update the dynamic library loading path in Solaris 10 you must use the tool crle. If you want to add a path, say /usr/…