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hostid's on SPARC are handy things because through the PROM they are tied directly to the hardware. On Solaris X86, not so much. They are "soft hostids", software emulated and essentially randomly generated. Because of this fact, it is easy for an upgrade or accidental deletion to wipe out the hostid and potentially cause you problems. This post applies only to Nevada based installs post-snv_100. Or, more specifically, following the ...
On the list of those who hate IPS, I am the first. Even so, it is a very long list, and one that will grow longer and longer as it ceases to effect hobbiest and early adopters and becomes a reality in a proper Solaris GA release. While IPS has been around for some time now, only recently did I actually fully understand its purpose. In meeting with an engineer at Sun (whom I shall not name, but not directly involved with IPS) I started ...
Splunk 4.1 has arrived and really raises the bar for an already amazing tool. Several new key features have been added that make it worth an immediate upgrade: Integration with Industry Single Sign-On products, such as OpenSSO, Tivoli, Oracle Identity Management, etc. Event Level Workflows, such as opening a ticket or taking some action PDF Reports Event Extraction Live Dashboards and Views Real-time Search The big killer-app ...
DISCLAIMER: I say "iPhone" when I technically should say "iPod Touch". iPad has no mic and no phone. But, I say iPhone because thats the device most of us have and use for real applications. You know what I mean. One of the perks of working for a jazzy startup like Joyent who's had a good year: free iPad's for all. Our Christmas bonus from Joyent. w00t. So I pre-ordered mine and got it today, as promised by Apple. So, lets get ...
Hot on the heals of Oracle's revamp of Solaris support, the licensing agreement for free downloads of Solaris 10 have changed. Infoworld broke the news on Friday. Here is the bit in question. Notice this paragraph in the Licensing Agreement: "Obtaining an Entitlement Document is simple. On the Solaris 10 Get It page, select the platform and format you desire from the drop-down menus, and then click the Download Solaris 10 button. ...
We're getting more of a taste as to the "new reality". Most of the news is of the "Surprised, but knew this was coming" variety. Motley Fool has a good write-up about the Oracle earnings announcement and how Sun's impacting the bottom line as well as changes coming. Some of the include getting rid of all unprofitable resale deals, such as Veritas and Hitachi products. CIO Mag dips into the new "All or Nothing" support model being ...
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root@quatro src$ uname -a SunOS quatro 5.11 snv_133 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris root@quatro src$ pkg search gcc Segmentation Fault (core dumped) root@quatro src$ exit exit benr@quatro src$ pkg search gcc Segmentation Fault benr@quatro src$ pfexec pkg search gcc INDEX ACTION VALUE PACKAGE description set GCC pkg:/SUNWgccruntime@3.4.3-0.97 description set GCC ...
I'm not a huge fan of XKCD, but this is classic: BTW, if you don't play Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (1 or 2), you should start. Amazing game. Props to my fellow snipers.
Phoronix has quickly risen as my favorite review site (along with Anandtech). They focus more on the *NIX world than other sites and have set the bar for a benchmark review site. In particular thanks to the Phoronix Test Suite, a venerable suite of benchmarks beautifully weaved together. Did I mention they like OpenSolaris? That helps too. :) They recently uploaded a presentation by site founder Michael Larabel entitled: The Five ...