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Oracle and Iron Man trailer

This commercial for Oracle and Trailer for Iron Man is out for a little while now, just forgot to post it here. If you haven seen it already, enjoy!

1Tb Maxtor basic drives & ZFS

I have two 1TB Maxtor basic drives connected to my opensolaris box. On there I run a ZFS mirror. All working well, maybe not on mega speeds but fairly enough for home use (it does stream movies to my AppleTV with XBMC over smb) The downside I discovered later, is that they auto sleep after [...]

OpenSolaris 2008.11 ZFS with ‘on access’ virus scan

Although at home I only work with Macintosh and OpenSolaris computers and the risk for virusses and malware are rather slim, my files could be infected with pc virusses and I could send pc virusses to friends without me knowing. It is also very stupid to think that Macintosh computer are just safe and don’t [...]

Specify the Finder icon with Avahi on OpenSolaris 2008.11

I found this article from Simon Wheatley and found it very nice to do. But it didn’t seem to work on OpenSolaris… but don’t worry, it just needs a small fix, don’t use port 0 for _device-info._tcp, but just give it a port you are already advertising.

Share your OpenSolaris 2008.11 screen to Mac Os X

I found some info on how to share your OpenSolaris Screen with vnc, and those manuals just didn’t do it for Mac Os X unless you use a vnc viewer. But I wanted to use the build in screen sharing build in to Mac Os X which support vnc but it didn’t seem to work.. [...]

Solaris ZFS – SSD & ZFS – Hybrid Storage Technology

Process Management

I learned some nice things from our middleware guy, who I will support in the future. So I was searching for some process management commands. Romeo Ninov has a nice list on it.toolbox.com here is the list: Commands apptrace – for trace of library calls dtrace – debugger, new in version 10 pargs – get [...]