Sun – Week Forty-five

Monday starts at 5:30 for me, and after getting in from Aber at 12:30, I wasn’t feeling too sharp… I’m in early all this week so we can support early workers and people in Europe who are an hour ahead of us. Today was spent doing some tickets, I had a couple about people not being able to install machines. I also had a short meeting with Simon from Aber about the report…

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Sun - Week Forty-four

This week is excellent! Monday starts off as a bank holiday, and I have Thursday and Friday off!

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Sun - Week Forty-three

Monday starts off OK. Coming into work to find some tickets on the queue and some work to be done from last week. My main ticket is setting up an x4100 over in the 02 lab for an engineer who wants to install VM’s. There is a problem with this, he wants to use Windows and whenever someone says that, there are always groans, why? Because Windows == licensing. He wants to use MSDN licenses, however, he isn’t the only user of the systems-to-be, so he needs to use volume licenses. We have an old VM machine which has valid volume licenses on, but I can’t access the VM files so I can’t transfer them…

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Are blogs a fad?

Why does one start to write a blog? I know why I started mine, I wanted some representation on the web which was a bit more organised than the sites I tend to cobble together…Did I share much with you all? Looking back, no. OK, so I’ve blogged about at least one thing every month…But that’s just it, some months I’ve completely neglected this site…

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Sun - Week Forty-two

Monday morning starts with us meeting a newtern for next year. Alex is down for a weeks experience to get used to working at sun. As a result, I’ve not actually done that much this week.

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OpenSolaris Live USB Creator

Just been alerted to this: clicky

Though if you don’t have access to a Windows box, but do already have access (or know someone with access) to an OpenSolaris box, then this method works too.

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Oracle buys Sun Microsystems

Well, the news hit the two company sites at around 12:30 BST by my reckoning. Sun.com and Oracle.com both revealed the news at around the same time here are some screen grabs of the sites on the day:

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Sun Week Forty-one

This week starts on Tuesday, Monday being Easter Monday and a day dedicated to getting over a “chocolate hangover”, whatever one of those is…

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Sun - Week Forty

This week I’m going to try and finish that email script…A while ago I was assigned the task of writing a module for our booking system.

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Sun - Week Thirty-nine

Monday morning is here, we are an hour ahead of last week with the clocks going forward. It seems really sunny today, shame that my day starts off with unblocking the toilet, yuck.

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