Wednesday June 03, 2009
Wednesday June 03, 2009
how to get your Mozilla Firefox (web) and Thunderbird (email) into the language of your choice ?
Trick : how to localize Firefox and Thunderbird into any other language than English ?
Platform : Sunray, Solaris, Linux etc...
Posted at 07:38PM Jun 03, 2009 by jim in Solaris |
Thursday October 30, 2008
New position... Systems Technologist.
What does mean "Systems Technologist" ? I did not find a proper translation in French or Spanish.
Anyway it sounds cool. I am very happy to be back as a System Administrator and my new manager@SUN seems to be really good.
He is the kind of guy that makes you love the place where you work, really ! Tons of projects and things to learn. So far so good, here I am 
I will visit some of the people of my team in Broomfield (CO) very soon.
Posted at 08:55PM Oct 30, 2008 by jim in General |
Friday October 26, 2007
VISTA Business Edition does install fine on a Sun Java W1100z Workstation.
I have tried the 32 bits version.
The only driver which is not available from the installation DVDROM is the Realtek AUDIO AC97 driver.
See http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/win/134635 from where you can download it.
At the begining before all the Microsoft Updates were installed I had to complain about some performance issues with some "mouse hangs".
In my setup I have also a NVIDIA QUADRO FX 1100 video card which is perfectly installed by the OS installer (WHQL driver!). I have tried to use the official driver installer from NVIDIA website but it does end with error message saying that it did not find any hardware compatible with such driver (???)...
Anyway it does work fine.
Posted at 02:20PM Oct 26, 2007 by jim in General |
Monday November 06, 2006
VMWARE : How to install Solaris 10 u2 6/06
Solaris 10 X86 does boot 64 bits kernel by default on Intel 64 bits CPU System. Freshly installed Solaris 10 VMWARE image does not reboot/boot properly and does hang. This is a know issue which is fixed by upgrading the kernel.
[Read More]Posted at 03:55PM Nov 06, 2006 by jim in Solaris |
Friday February 11, 2005
**13** year old girl to address Linux conference !
So good ! http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39186360,00.htm So she prefers to install a **Linux** server instead of playing with Barbie(TM) ? For sure she'll be a guru : but is this a game to install a server ?
Posted at 03:47PM Feb 11, 2005 by jim in Linux |
Wednesday February 09, 2005
Solaris Zones
-> What is a Solaris Zone ? How to set it **quickly** ? some output samples...[Read More]
Posted at 04:08PM Feb 09, 2005 by jim in Solaris |
Wednesday February 02, 2005
Redhat Distros and specific RHEL 3.0/4.0 packages
Hey guys, If you don't have the user account to access to the Redhat network (RHN), you can fetch the source product from : http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/enterprise/ and compile the product by yourself then make the installation. Also from this folder http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/ you can update (following same idea) most of the Redhat Distros. Of course this idea is perfect for a single package... What is the Redhat Network ? It's the single way to download and update your RHEL Distro. You can download new ISOs, new packages, or use the "up2date" command to update/upgrade your installed operating system. Note that the ISOs and the pre-compiled packages are not available to the public. This is a comercial product and you'll only have access to theses Redhat products by using an official account (eg. licence). See http://www.redhat.com/software/rhn/ to get an overview about the Redhat Network.
Posted at 05:10PM Feb 02, 2005 by jim in Linux |
The RPM command
Hi there, Some comments about my Sunsolve document Infodoc ID: 70394 "How to Install a Package Under Sun[TM] Linux (LX50), Redhat AS 2.1 and 3.0, Suse Linux ES" This is very important to understand that this apply to all RPM enabled operating systems. (See the systems we do support : http://www.sun.com/software/linux/) For example, using any SUSE Distro, you'll probably try to maintain your installation using the GUI named YAST/YAST2 but the things to know is that it will manipulate the system packages using the native RPM commands. That will be the same for "*drake tools" from Mandrake distro or any Gnome RPM management tools. So if you've got a single package to install, you'll probably get some precious time by using the shell and the relevant RPM command and for sure you'll start to understand what's going on. See http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-9-70394-1&searchclause=%22install%20linux%22
Posted at 04:46PM Feb 02, 2005 by jim in Linux |
Friday January 28, 2005