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 […]
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
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
It started with a question: How can we inspire people to take action on climate change? The answer: Ask the people of Sydney to turn off their lights for one hour. On 31 March 2007, 2.2 million people and 2100 Sydney businesses turned off their lights for one hour – Earth Hour. This massive collective