LiveUSB creator for fedora
I needed to install Linux to reproduce a bug remotely displaying apps from Linux to Solaris and found a very easy to use Windows executable to create a Fedora Live USB. You can get it from: http://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator
The application lets you choose from a couple of different Fedora releases to download and it downloads and creates the USB all in one step. If the USB create fails for some reason, it doesn't have to download the image again and it lets you continue on after correcting the error. In my case, my flash drive was not FAT formatted, so after correcting that and refreshing the target device in their GUI, I continued with the USB creation. The liveUSB booted fine on my Acer 3400. Now, why can't creating an OpenSolaris liveUSB be that easy?
Posted at 12:46PM Jul 29, 2008 by uejio in Sun | Comments[1]
Ukulele Underground!
About a year ago, I posted some ukulele links. Well, that list of links has turned into just one link:
That's http://ukuleleunderground.com.
I'm a sustaining engineer and not particularly good at marketing, but this website has everything you ever need for learning to play the ukulele or just enjoying ukulele music. There's tutorials on the front page, you can buy a CD of original ukulele music, and the best part are the pointers in the forum to all the cool ukulele videos on youtube and to some really interesting discussions. See if you can find which user is me...
The folks who created the website are on tour in California this week. They spent three days in San Francisco, CA playing at Mike DeSilva's in Berkeley on Friday night and then at the Hukilau in SF on Sunday night. I also got to jam with them until the wee hours of the morning on Saturday night. They will be playing in San Diego, California on July 21, 22, and 23. (See the website for the exact place and times.)
If you like the ukulele, you'll love ukuleleunderground.com even more!
If there are any ukulele players at Sun, please contact me and we can get together to jam sometime!
Posted at 11:34PM Jul 20, 2008 by uejio in General | Comments[4]
OpenSolaris on an iPod Touch (via VNC)
Not sure if this would actually be usable, but here it is:
OpenSolaris 2008.05 on an iPod Touch via VNC.
This is using an iPod Touch that I bought a few months ago running the 2.0 Update and running a free VNC app from the App Store. OpenSolaris 2008.05 in running on a Sun Ultra 20. I had to enable XDMCP in gdm by editing the file /etc/X11/gdm/custom.conf and changing the xdmcp section to read:
[xdmcp]
Enable=true
Hm... This looks just like OpenSolaris. "How do I know that you're running on an iTouch?", one might ask. The only difference is those three buttons on the bottom of the image. The keyboard button brings up keyboard input:
The "+" button brings up a menu of options and the "hand" button switches between using our finger as the pointer within VNC and using it as the pointer on the Touch. (i.e. to resize the screen and scroll).
Trust me. I really do have my iTouch running a VNC app and displaying OpenSolaris 2008.05. It really works!
Posted at 10:13PM Jul 16, 2008 by uejio in Sun |
simple DTrace script to print function argument
Someone asked me for a DTrace script to print out the
argument to an arbitrary function. I'm not exactly sure if this is what
he meant, so I wrote a script which lets you specify a function name and
the position of the string argument that you want printed out and then
the command to run. Since it's a script, you can modify to print out
integer args or to connect to a running process, etc...
The script is called printarg.d. You have to run it either as root or
with sufficient privileges in /etc/user_attr. For example, this entry
allows me to run dtrace scripts:
uejio::::type=normal;defaultpriv=basic,dtrace_user,dtrace_proc,dtrace_kernel
Anyway, here's an example:
$ printarg.d XLoadQueryFont 1 -c dtcalc
XLoadQueryFont: arg1=-dt-interface user-medium-r-normal-m*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
XLoadQueryFont: arg1=-dt-interface system-medium-r-normal-m
sans-17-170-72-72-p-97-iso8859-1
XLoadQueryFont: arg1=-dt-interface user-medium-r-normal-m
sans-14-140-72-72-m-90-iso8859-1
Here's another example:
$ printarg.d fopen 0 -c dtcalc
fopen: arg0=/home/uejio/.Xauthority
fopen: arg0=/usr/openwin/lib/locale/locale.alias
fopen: arg0=/usr/openwin/lib/locale/locale.dir
fopen: arg0=/usr/openwin/lib/locale/locale.alias
fopen: arg0=/usr/openwin/lib/locale/locale.alias
fopen: arg0=/usr/openwin/lib/locale/locale.dir
fopen: arg0=/usr/openwin/lib/X11/Xcms.txt
fopen: arg0=/home/uejio/.icons/blueprint-cursor-theme/cursors/arrow
fopen: arg0=/home/uejio/.icons/blueprint-cursor-theme/index.theme
fopen: arg0=/usr/share/icons/blueprint-cursor-theme/cursors/arrow
fopen: arg0=/usr/share/icons/blueprint-cursor-theme/index.theme
fopen: arg0=/usr/share/pixmaps/blueprint-cursor-theme/cursors/arrow
fopen: arg0=/usr/share/pixmaps/blueprint-cursor-theme/index.theme
fopen: arg0=/home/uejio/.icons/default/cursors/arrow
fopen: arg0=/home/uejio/.icons/default/index.theme
fopen: arg0=/usr/share/icons/default/cursors/arrow
fopen: arg0=/usr/share/icons/default/index.theme
fopen: arg0=/usr/share/pixmaps/default/cursors/arrow
fopen: arg0=/usr/share/pixmaps/default/index.theme
fopen: arg0=/usr/dt/appconfig/icons/C/Dtcalc.l.bm
fopen: arg0=/usr/dt/appconfig/icons/C/Dtcalc.l_m.bm
Well, I thought this was pretty cool and so easy to do in DTrace, but your mileage may vary. ;-)
If anyone knows of a simpler way to calculate the args to pass in,
please let me know.
Posted at 08:36AM Jul 02, 2008 by uejio in Sun |
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