Sandboxing
Back in 2010 I complete my dissertation. The idea for my diss came to me while sitting in Starbucks in Camberley sometime during my time at Sun Microsystems, probably early 2009. The idea was quickly jotted on the back of Continue reading
Tag Archives: OpenSolaris
Goodbye OpenSolaris
Well, it looks like Oracle has pulled OpenSolaris. Hopefully the Illumos project will continue and make some sort of replacement for the loss. Over the past week or so I’ve been thinking about jumping to FreeBSD, the project has ZFS Continue reading
Dissertation is over…
I meant to blog about this ages ago! Better late than never I suppose… Back in April (April 22nd to be precise) I handed in two copies of my 72 page document which outlines everything about my project. I wanted Continue reading
Making a script run on startup on OpenSolaris
While working on my dissertation, I found that virtual NICs and etherstubs don’t automatically reappear on a restart. So, I have a nice little script to make them come back: #!/bin/bash /sbin/dladm up-aggr /sbin/dladm up-vlan /sbin/dladm up-vnic /sbin/dladm init-linkprop -w Continue reading
SUNWyp – A.K.A. NIS
So, over the last week I have been trying to get NIS to work with OpenSolaris in VirtualBox machines. I managed to get the master server to work fine by doing the following:
OpenSolaris 2009.06 Released
It’s finally here! OpenSolaris 2009.06 has been released! Head over to opensolaris.org to download the new iso, or run `pfexec pkg image-update` (no quotes) as the user you created when you installed your machine to upgrade your current installation. Exciting Continue reading
rm -rf tragedy
It happened a couple of weeks ago now. I plugged in my external hard drive “POCKET” and OpenSolaris mounted it under /media/POCKET. I was going to copy my films and TV series over to POCKET as I was travelling up Continue reading
Sun – Week Thirtyeight
Monday I was back in the office, Steve was out coming home from a weekend in Aber and James had started a week of touring the UK. I picked up a few tickets and knuckled down to get them done. Continue reading
Sun – Week Thirty Seven
This week was brilliant! I was on a training course: Solaris Internals. It was great for two reasons, firstly because I missed the French lab moving over to our lab (although now I wish I had been there), and secondly, Continue reading
My new IBM Thinkpad X32 and wireless
Today I took delivery of the four year old IBM Thinkpad X32. With it’s 1.8GHz Pentium M, 1GB of RAM and it’s “massive” 40gb HDD I thought it was an excellent machine to use as a portable OpenSolaris machine.