I got myself a new toy during my California visit. My old Sony Vaio Z505HS wasn't up to spiff
any more. When I fired up Sun Studio (NetBeans) it quickly ground to a halt. It doesn't have enough memory, and the processor is only a 500 MHz Pentium III, so I decided to go the whole nine yards and get myself an Acer Ferrari 3400, and some extra memory so I got a total of 1 GB.
It is heavier than the Vaio, but it does make up for that in featues and power: 2 GHz 64 bit Mobile Athlon, 80 GB disk, 15" 1400x1050 screen, built in WLAN and GB Ethernet. The list could go on, but I'll stop gloating now.
I've installed Solaris 10 (running in 64 bit mode), and it works like a charm. I used BlastWave to get all extras installed, and only only thing I don't like about BlastWave is that it is too verbose. I'll see if I get around to add a "-q" option to pkg-get.
This mean that I can hack away on my pet projects in front of the TV, so hopefully I'll be able to get some more work done on the Log Viewer. I'll also be able to bring it when I do customer presentations, and do live demos of the stuff I usually talk about (zones, privileges, auditing, RBAC and other nifty features).
