@izamryan mentions in the Twitter stream- @ummiabdullah Woot!! Precious hubby.. Congrats @izamryan!! 29 July, 2010
- @snrpablo my darling husband @izamryan made birthday dinner @ home & for dessert - bananas topped with cream & maple syrup =) 29 July, 2010
- RT: @izamryan Men&women think difly at times, but the biggest diff is this: men forget, but never forgive. Women forgive, but never forget. 29 July, 2010
- @izamryan - men get and forget, women give and forgive lol!! 29 July, 2010
- @izamryan @ummiabdullah hahaha im thinking im gonna just pass on the goats, weeds and bottoms if its all the same 26 July, 2010
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Tag Archives: OpenSolaris
Setting up OpenSolaris 2009.06 – some hints
Some brief ideas: 1. Set up VNC using the built-in OpenSolaris VNC server. Tim Thomas blogs on how it’s done –> Simply edit nano /etc/x11/gdm/custom.conf. Then ensure that xvnc-inetd is spawned on startup: svcadm enable xvnc-inetd. Then respawn xvnc-inetd and … Continue reading
Replacing an EACS drive for an EADS
So the shop somehow managed to deliver my custom PC with 2x EADS drives and 1x EACS drive. Normally, to rectify this kind of mishap would require backing up the data on the drive and restoring the data to the … Continue reading
ZFS to the rescue
ZFS saved my data! root@opensolaris:~# zpool status -x pool: tank state: ONLINE status: One or more devices has experienced an unrecoverable error. An attempt was made to correct the error. Applications are unaffected. action: Determine if the device needs to … Continue reading
Seamless upgrades with OpenSolaris & ZFS
One other benefit of using ZFS and it’s ability to take snapshots of an entire filesystems … is that I can upgrade my boot environment inside a clone of my existing system. If I have problems, I can always roll … Continue reading
Somewhere … a Windows file server just cried a little inside
This is a screen shot of my OpenSolaris install. I created an approx. 2,000 GB storage pool out of 3x 1TB hard disk drives. You’d think it should add up to 3,000 GB of storage … but one of the … Continue reading
ZFS – Finally back on OpenSolaris
Havoc! Let me summarise my long list of problems with my custom PC. The spec is roughly: ASUS P5KPL-AM Motherboard, with Intel Core2Duo processor 3x Western Digital 1TB hard drives, WD10EADS (SATA) 1x Western Digital WD160GB, SATAIII HDD, DVD burner … Continue reading
FreeBSD with ZFS
So I got FreeBSD 7.1 w/ ZFS on my root file system working like a charm. I followed the instructions at www.ish.com.au, with some exceptions, which follow after the break. The cool thing? 1,860 GB of storage space. 930 GB … Continue reading
OpenSolaris vs FreeBSD .. .which do I go for?
Dilemma! I’m setting up a home NAS … but do I return to my FreeBSD roots or shall I try something new and go with OpenSolaris? Both are Open Source, both have excellent communities etc. And most importantly? Both have … Continue reading
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
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
