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The APC ES 550 (follow up)

Published on February 24, 2010 By SUNWfrk

Today my UPS’es made themselves usefull. $ grep apcupsd /var/log/messages Feb 24 13:02:39 soekris apcupsd[1369]: Power failure. Feb 24 13:02:45 soekris apcupsd[1369]: Running on UPS batteries. Feb 24 13:41:27 soekris apcupsd[1369]: Mains returned. No longer on UPS batteries. Feb 24 13:41:27 soekris apcupsd[1369]: Power is back. UPS running on mains. I must say the UPS [...]

1Tb Maxtor basic drives & ZFS

Published on June 28, 2009 By SUNWfrk

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

Published on April 19, 2009 By SUNWfrk

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

Published on April 5, 2009 By SUNWfrk

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.

Solaris as your Mac-NAS

Published on November 14, 2008 By SUNWfrk

If your first question is ‘why not linux?’ is that I truly think Solaris is a better and more mature operating system. Solaris has native ZFS wich is still a major issue with the GNU part of linux. Solaris is also very ready for what you expect from a NAS and you can download it [...]