@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: OSS
Google’s Nexus One smartphone – not your ordinary innovation
Why Google’s Nexus One isn’t all just about technological innovation, it’s also about business model innovation. Changing the rules of the game this way has great potential for future returns. Continue reading
Open Source in Brunei Darussalam [Presentation]
Six months ago I gave this presentation to a group of non-techies. It is pitched as a general briefing on Open Source in Brunei. My materials are published under a Creative Commons license, so please feel free to make use … Continue reading
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
For every $1 spent on licenses, an additional $1.25 is spent on value added services
A recent IDC report on piracy in Brunei states that for every $1.00 spent on software licenses, an additional $1.25 is also spent in value added services. Why is this important to us? And why is an OSS friendly guy … 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
Risk = Crisis + Opportunity
In a “zero-sum game“, there is always one loser and one winner. Just like in a game of poker, what one party wins, the other party loses. I’ve been reading a lot about the economic downturn lately and it reminded … 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
