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 Express). The installation from the DVD went fine, though ther seems to be a little quirk with the video console Read more
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 has a floppy drive so I went with the usual convention of making a boot floppy to kick off the Read more
It seems customary to begin a weblog with a brief intorduction. I work for Sun in the Dublin, Ireland offices, in the Patch System Test (PST) group. fintanr , bnitz , timf and calum are some of the other folks in these buildings that also have blogs here, and their blogs will probably be much more interesting than mine! So patches eh? Most readers will be aware that you can get patches from sunsolve. But Read more
Right. Enough people have messaged me about this on facebook so rather than do the day by day thing, which I’ll get bored of by tomorrow, I’ll just list them all now. This is a bit of an oldskool list; i should do it again with more tunes from this century sometime 🙂 day 01 – your favorite song Disarm – Smashing Pumpkins http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQtLoJlQD6E day 02 – your least favorite song Sinead – nothing compares Read more