Author name: albertw

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A new door opens

We’ve had some eventful days. We had fun and we kicked butt as Scott would say. We changed the world. We were part of the greatest technology company the world has ever seen. We changed computing forever – repeatedly. And in a few minutes we’ll learn what the future holds with Oracle. I hope Oracle […]

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Browsing the support and extras Opensolaris repos in Firefox

Opensolaris users may be familiar with browsing repositories in firefox. To look through the latest Develpoment repo for example you just open up http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev in your browser. Things are a little more complicated for the extras and support repos though. Firstly you need to register to get access to these repos. Anyone can get access

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Interactive Jumpstart – asking for time

I hit an interesting problem tonight with jumpstart. Or old timeserver has gone away and the jumpstart clients are now going into interactive installs asking for the user to set the time. We rely heavily on automated installs so this needed to be fixed. The solution was obvious I thought. I’ll just set up one

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Opensolaris Code Swarms

Recently I had a discussion with some folks about ways to identify change in a workspace. In particular if there were ways where we could judge the risk associated with changes without needing to know the specifics of the changes or being told by the engineers. In Opensolaris for example there are flag days. These

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