Author name: albertw

Solaris

Patching with Live Upgrade

Live Upgrade is a technology in Solaris that allows you to easily upgrade a system while not risking change to your running environment. You can easily revert back to your previous environment if you need to. BigAdmin has a great guide on setting up Live Upgrade. I’ve mentioned before about the problems of patching live […]

Solaris

ipfilter logging

A wile ago some of our test suites were failing due to erroneous requests to port 80 on the test machines. The simplest thing to do was to just block requests to anything other than our webserver in the lab using ipfilter.  pass in quick on bge2 proto tcp from any to <webserver IP> port

Photography

Indoor torch photography

Recently I bought a 5 million candle power torch for photography. The intention was to use it to ‘paint’ nighttime photos. However today I thought I’d try it out to light a boquet of flowers.     This shot was taken of a single rose in a pint glass. In order to get the dark

Solaris

Geocaching Ireland

Some of the regulars from geocachingireland.com were featured doing what they do best on RTE’s Nationwide TV Programme tonight. The 7 minute clip from the programme is on the Nationwide website.

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