Suddenly world around becomes very strange. First Oracle is breaking it’s promise to keep OpenSolaris running. Then BBC Future Media & Technology is announcing more departments relocated from London to North… Now I just received sad news that Wesabe is closing down. So far I see that IT related stuff is going downhill… However there [...]
Posts Tagged ‘geek’
Seagate HD is not good
After reading some posts on Server Room I’ve decided to do some scrubbing on my zfs pools … just in case ( done it a few times some long time ago ) The I’ve noticed that one pool takes ages to scrub: state: ONLINE scrub: scrub in progress for 0h59m, 40.72% done, 1h26m to go [...]
Battle of RHEL5.0 with HP G6
So, we got a new hardware for testing our product. Great, finally. To make sure that we test as close to what we consider Live, we have produced a system image with all required software pre-installed. It worked perfectly when we provisioned it on our new dev environment. However this time, we couldn’t get any [...]
Up in the Air movie
I have been to the cinema yesterday to see Up In The Air movie. I have just this to say : It’s brilliant and I will encourage all my peers to see it. Sooo good and real!
New Hosting
A bit of an update on my systems : somewhere in late November 2009 I’ve decided to rent a server with www.serverloft.com … I’m still setting things up there, I’m using VirtualBox to host certain functionalities on separate VMs. So far there are : mta1 for incoming mail, running ESVA , love it! (had experience [...]
Leaving 1 and 1
Well, the time has come, I will be leaving my current hosting provider www.1and1.com . Why ? I simply see no value in using hosting providers. I am my self working in that industry and that means I know how it works and stuff and because I have my own servers serving my email, vpns, [...]
Installing OpenSolaris from LiveCD with drivers
Installing OpenSolaris on HP SmartArray Solaris and OpenSolaris does not include SmartArray drivers, these need to be download from HP Website After that, extract the .pkg directory onto a USB stick Then start the LiveCD, open terminal and type : pfexec touch /ADD_DRV_IGNORE_ROOT_BASEDIR after that install the driver : pfexec pkgadd -d path/to/pkgdir Now you [...]
Quake Arena in your web browser
Arena Live is sooo much better than Quake Live It’s amazing , a while back we heard about Quake Live. A game, a Quake which you can play for free online. It had a few glitches , hanged a few times, works only on Windows. Still it was some fun. Now, as we know, id [...]
ScreenOS with Juniper SSG 20
I’ve decided that I wish to know some other Network OS than what Cisco can provide. It’s healthy to know more than one environment. I’ve found my self a Juniper SSG 20 which is not that expensive ( comparing to other Juniper stuff , especially brand new ) for training. One thing which I’ve noticed [...]
