Sunday Apr 12, 2009

I'm connected through the aether! (Well using 1900Mhz -- cellular)

How I got the Lenovo X200's Ericsson F3507g GSM modem working on OpenSolaris build 111...[Read More]

Sunday Oct 26, 2008

Creating OpenSolaris USB Sticks Is Easy!

A question I get asked often is, "How do I create OpenSolaris USB sticks?" Well, it's super simple, here's how...[Read More]

Thursday May 08, 2008

Basic Tasks On OpenSolaris 2008.05 For Many A Sun Employee

A quick refresher on how to setup a machine as a NIS client, use IPS to install OpenOffice, install Adobe´s Flash player, install Real Media´s RealPlayer all under OpenSolaris 2008.05.[Read More]

Thursday Apr 10, 2008

Power Savings In A Lab Environment

A lab of SunRay's or a lab of individual desktops? The power savings available through the SunRay's are quite impressive as are the administrative time savings.[Read More]

Thursday Mar 13, 2008

An easier way to dual boot under Indiana

Trying to run fdisk(1) and not quite sure how to invoke it? Here's a simple graphical launcher.[Read More]

Thursday Feb 07, 2008

Lempel Ziv Markov Algorithm and 7-Zip

I've found a lot of people are excited by the Lempel-Ziv-Markov-Algorithm, and many are playing with it through the 7-Zip archiver, however, it seems there's some confusion about where one ends and the other starts. I hope to explain my understanding of the two for those who are interested, and to ensure I understand it coherently as well![Read More]

Wednesday Feb 06, 2008

Removing AdminTool and replacing what's left with a very small shell script

Once the mighty end-all of patch checking, a very useful command showing ELF information, and a convenient way of getting a system's OpenWindows version, now just a small shell script: showrev(1M).[Read More]