Sun - Week Fourteen

Monday starts off with me looking into this jumpstart image. It turns out to be really easy! All I needed to do was to find the Solaris 10 Update 4 image, this had a file called setup_install_server (or similar), I just used this executable file to install the image to another directory. After this it was a case of using the patchadd command:

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Sun - Week Thirteen

Unlucky for some, will it be for me? As you possibly guess, I write parts of entries throughout the week and publish on Fridays, so at the time of writing, I have no idea if it’s going to be a good or bad week, it’s 11:50, Monday morning :P

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Sun - Week Twelve

Monday started slowly. I cycled in and not much happened in the morning. By the afternoon I had inherited a couple of tickets which I started work on after lunch. Immediately after lunch we had the weekly staff meeting, then I got cracking on some tickets…One system wasn’t turned on, so I turned it on (very taxing) and I started to look at Liam’s ticket about remaining SAN switched.

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Sun - Week Eleven

After a wonderful weekend with Faye, Monday started off with getting up early for a call with the APAC guys (Singapore and Australia), we were talking about new development life cycles - something that bores me at the best of times, and today was no exception. We do need to re-evaluate the way we fix bugs and release new versions of our lab tools though. The rest of Monday was fairly quiet, with a second meeting in the afternoon.

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SUNWlibsexy

I’m just updating packages on my OpenSolaris installation, and I glanced at the screen only to find a package called “SUNWlibsexy” sitting bang in the middle of the update screen. After a quick Google, I found this:

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Sun - Week Ten

So this week I’ve been on my 15k/25k maintenance course. It’s was very boring. It was basically the serengeti training all over again.

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A new design

I have redesigned my webshite, mostly because I got bored and didn’t like the old design…

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Sun - Week Nine

So, two months on and we have moved from knowing nothing, to knowing a bit more about what we’re doing.

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Sun - Week Eight

Now this week started off brilliantly, I mean who can argue with your boss telling you ‘it’s OK, take Monday off, and we’ll pay you!’ Of course, it was bank holiday Monday :wink:

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Sun - Week Seven

More training this week.

We started the week looking at how Solaris interfaces with the network, then went on to look at some networking basics related to Solaris.

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