/me is playing with a nice box this morning… 90 processes: 89 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle total 1.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 2.8% 395.2% cpu00 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% cpu01 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
Month: April 2006
Tux soap dispenser
I really like this one! (found by my wife)
How memory can disturb your night?
WTF! 2:0>ERROR: TEST = Block Memory 2:0>H/W under test = CPU2 Bank 0 Dimm 2, J8001 side 1 2:0>Repair Instructions: Replace items in order listed by ‘H/W under test’ above. 2:0>MSG = DIMM failure Bank 0 DIMM 2 Pin 195 2:0>END_ERROR Results: my night was spent testing DIMM memory modules…
Wine installation on Solaris 5.11
The goal of this installation is to run a native Solaris 10 on my notebook, using BrandZ (See my previous post) to run Linux applications in a zone and Wine to run Windows tools. Why do I need Windows binaries support? I’m using tools which run only on a Wintel
32 or 64 bits Solaris?
Want to know how many bits handles your Solaris kernel? # isainfo -kv 64-bit amd64 kernel modules I always forget this command! Grrr…. So I wrote it here 🙂
Eleven IT horror stories
Seen on InfoWorld.com: Stupid user tricks: Eleven IT horror stories
ZFS
ZFS will be finally publicy available in 06/2006 with Solaris 10 update 2. I’m just back from a Sun technical presentation about this new toy. Really impressed! I already played with a Beta release during my Solaris 10 training but some nasty bugs prevented a massive deployment. Now, it will
/. effect!
Today, the Belgian authorities published a video of Joe’s murderers. Belga provided this video on its web site. Immediately, almost all Begian newspapers added a link to the online video (copy is here)… This was a nice /. effect with an average of 18 requests/sec!
Psion forever!
For years, I always took gadgets with me. I owned some Psion, Palm, PocketPC, MobilePhone, … Today, while performing some serious cleanup, I found back my old Psion3a under 5kg of books. Temptation was too big, I put some new batteries and started it. Amazing, the backup battery was dead
“Transparent” shirt
I really love this one! They’re a few for sale on eBay but quite expansive! 🙁