Author name: albertw

Astronomy

relativly general last week

Dublin played host to the 17th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation. Up until a few days before the event only the professionals and amateur astronomers were aware of the event. What was organised well in advance were the public lectures, on the opening day of the conference, Kip Thorne, best known publicly for […]

General

pkg-get and solaris 10

This post was about editing pkg-get since sunfreware does not have packages for s10, however it seems that the blastwave resourse supplies s10 packages, so I’ll just use that.

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solaris on my laptop

Earlier this year I bought a Fujitsu-Siems Amilo M 7400 laptop. Initially I put JDS on it then SuSE 9. With Solaris x86 getting a lot of attention of late I thought it might be time to give it a go. I tried using using the latest build of Solaris 10 (available externally through Solaris

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e1000g and sheep

First off the subject line is designed to convey the impression that I want to make points about the e1000g and a separate comment about sheep. Not that I have something to say about putting gigabit drivers and sheep together! I was trying to install a Dell Precision 650 earlier today with solaris. The machine

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