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Comment on Upgrading an XSCF on a restricted network by Rob McDonald

Rob McDonald — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:16:35 +0000

Brilliant idea!
Always been on the look-out for a way to remotely flash the XSCF with network restrictions in place.
Also use the “screens” utility in case my remote session drops.

Comment on Self made home NAS I/O benchmarks by Self made home NAS power measurements « SUNWfrk’s Blog

Self made home NAS power measurements « SUNWfrk’s Blog — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 07:04:52 +0000

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Comment on Self made home NAS I/O benchmarks by SUNWfrk

SUNWfrk — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 06:49:28 +0000

Hi Anthony, you can grab the source tarbals at http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ (use bonnie++-1.03d.tgz because the latest version with direct io didn’t work for me) and compile bonnie++. I also had to use gmake instead of make.. good luck!

Comment on Self made home NAS I/O benchmarks by Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:20:37 +0000

I am trying to install bonnie on Solaris Express 11 but I dont see it in the packages … could you help on how you installed it ?

Comment on Adding custom rpm’s to your autoyast installation by Adding an exotic network driver to a suse autoyast installation | SUNWfrk’s Blog

Adding an exotic network driver to a suse autoyast installation | SUNWfrk’s Blog — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:10:13 +0000

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Comment on Adding an exotic network driver to a suse autoyast installation by Adding custom rpm’s to your autoyast installation | SUNWfrk’s Blog

Adding custom rpm’s to your autoyast installation | SUNWfrk’s Blog — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:13:15 +0000

[...] custom rpm’s to your autoyast installation November 11, 2010 This is a follow up of my previous blogpost where I created a custom initrd for an autoyast installation. The module I added to the initrd was [...]

Comment on Share your OpenSolaris 2008.11 screen to Mac Os X by Teg Bains

Teg Bains — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:05:47 +0000

Thanks for the excellent tip!

Comment on Share your OpenSolaris 2008.11 screen to Mac Os X by OpenSolaris screen sharing with Mac « Matt Connolly’s Blog

OpenSolaris screen sharing with Mac « Matt Connolly’s Blog — Fri, 07 May 2010 22:21:02 +0000

[...] This requires more configuration on the OpenSolaris side of this – apparently the Mac OS will only connect to a server that requires authentication in its expected method. This article showed me how to do it: Share your OpenSolaris 2008.11 screen to Mac Os X. [...]

Comment on Share your OpenSolaris 2008.11 screen to Mac Os X by Matt Connolly

Matt Connolly — Fri, 07 May 2010 21:46:30 +0000

Worked, thank you. The first command “svcadm” will appear to run even if you don’t run it as root… tricked me first time.

Comment on Specify the Finder icon with Avahi on OpenSolaris 2008.11 by Using MDNS to advertise OpenSolaris NAS to Mac computers | Morph3ous’s Weblog

Using MDNS to advertise OpenSolaris NAS to Mac computers | Morph3ous’s Weblog — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:52:23 +0000

[...] Create the XML files that tell MDNS what to advertise. (Found this information from here, here, and here. [...]