Sun – Week Forty-Three

Monday starts off OK. Coming into work to find some tickets on the queue and some work to be done from last week.
My main ticket is setting up an x4100 over in the 02 lab for an engineer who wants to install VM’s. There is a problem with this, he wants to use Windows and whenever someone says that, there are always groans, why? Because Windows == licensing. He wants to use MSDN licenses, however, he isn’t the only user of the systems-to-be, so he needs to use volume licenses. We have an old VM machine which has valid volume licenses on, but I can’t access the VM files so I can’t transfer them…

Are blogs a fad?

Why does one start to write a blog? I know why I started mine, I wanted some representation on the web which was a bit more organised than the sites I tend to cobble together…Did I share much with you all?  Looking back, no.  OK, so I’ve blogged about at least one thing every month…But that’s just it, some months I’ve completely neglected this site…

Sun – Week Forty-Two

Monday morning starts with us meeting a newtern for next year. Alex is down for a weeks experience to get used to working at sun. As a result, I’ve not actually done that much this week.

Opensolaris Live USB Creator

Just been alerted to this: clicky

Though if you don’t have access to a Windows box, but do already have access (or know someone with access) to an OpenSolaris box, then this method works too.

Oracle buys Sun Microsystems

Well, the news hit the two company sites at around 12:30 BST by my reckoning.  Sun.com and Oracle.com both reveled the news at around the same time (sun clicky and oracle clicky <- pics of the sites on the day).

Sun Week Forty-One

This week starts on Tuesday, Monday being Easter Monday and a day dedicated to getting over a “chocolate hangover”, whatever one of those is…

Sun – Week Forty

This week I’m going to try and finish that email script…A while ago I was assigned the task of writing a module for our booking system.

Sun – Week Thirty Nine

Monday morning is here, we are an hour ahead of last week with the clocks going forward. It seems really sunny today, shame that my day starts off with unblocking the toilet, yuch.
Anyhoo, I get into the office as usual, grab a coffee from the Java cafe and spend most of the morning setting up some of the French kit. I’ve set up console entries in JLT, and all console connections appear to work. I’ve just got to set up IP addresses for the kit and their SP’s, configure all the SP’s to work on this network and boot net the hosts. However I must configure boot net for any hosts that are booked, but not jump start them…Something which is very tempting!
The afternoon was spent in a meting, and finding three machines. I want to test some thign out: we have had complaints that from Solaris 10 machines, people can’t access one of our share through /net though Nevada machines seem to be unaffected…I have three v210’s which I have installed Solaris 10 update 4 and 6, and Nevada build 110 on, I have found that I can reproduce the issue, just a case of finding out why!

My blog, here in 1969!

As you can see from the image (below), I have the stats for my blog on Thursday, 1st January 1970!  I also have stats for ‘yesterday’ presumably meaning Wednesday, 31st December 1969!

Obviously those of you that are more observant, anyone can claim this: simply put an invalid date into the address bar!  Though interestingly, 2009-04-31 give you the date: 1st May 2009.

Just something to blog about before bed!

rm -rf tragedy

It happened a couple of weeks ago now.  I plugged in my external hard drive “POCKET” and OpenSolaris mounted it under /media/POCKET.  I was going to copy my films and TV series over to POCKET as I was travelling up to see Faye in Aber.