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OpenSolaris with a raid-z array, Part2

Here is my attempt to install OpenSolaris on 3x 4GB drives in a virtualised environment. This did not go well at all! My virtualised environment could not boot because I used the wrong commands in Step 3 and overwrote the … Continue reading

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OpenSolaris with a raid-z array, Part1

The documentation for ZFS and OpenSolaris seems “technically correct” in a kind of austere fashion … but I haven’t found some “dumbed-down” simplified documentation for OpenSolaris newbies like there are for Linux/FreeBSD equivalents. Reading the Solaris/OpenSolaris docs, I get this … Continue reading

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Sun’s xVM VirtualBox

My experiment in using Fedora 10′s built-in virtualisation technology  (based on KVM and qemu / kqemu) to install OpenSolaris didn’t go too well! I find the emulator to be just too slow for my taste, but I’m not sure if … Continue reading

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Installing OpenSolaris 2008.11 in a virtual machine within Fedora 10 (or any Linux with KVM)

I need to set up some OpenSolaris servers for a pet project, and so I can educate myself about the ins and outs of OpenSolaris. I don’t have lots of server hardware lying around spare and I don’t want to … Continue reading

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Shouting at your disk array is not supported

The power of OpenSolaris, with DTrace. A more detailed analysis follows in a Sun blog and a cnet article. OpenSolaris is downloadable for free from Sun Microsystems. It is a cutting edge open source Unix with some very nice features: … Continue reading

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Live Mesh is the son of Groove, the son of Notes

I bought the December issue of Wired magazine because it had a feature on Ray Ozzie, the inventor of Lotus Notes and Groove. Lotus Notes is an interesting technology that is one of the best enterprise collaboration tools available today. … Continue reading

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Rapid development frameworks – CakePHP, Django, RoR

Last month I blogged about a comparing rapid development frameworks. These are tools that help you develop web-based applications. They provide building blocks of functionality that you can readily glue together in a larger conceptual framework [like Lego, you can … Continue reading

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Fedora 10 graphical boot splash

For a little bit of extra eye-candy, Fedora 10 users can try the “Plymouth boot splash loader”

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Merb merges with Rails 3!

In a bit of surprise news, Rails merges with the Merb team. The implication will be that the efforts of the two frameworks won’t be duplicated across the teams. Users of merb will be able to enjoy the third-party support … Continue reading

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Mirror mirror … on the wall

I’ve been thinking about ways to promote OSS here in Brunei. One suggested method is to set up an OSS mirror here. A mirror is essentially a local copy of software, that is sync with the providers. Changes in the … Continue reading

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