One more time, I lost time thanks to a Microsoft issue… With a colleague @ a remote office, we tried to setup a remote Sunray DTU as I did at home. Of course, we faced the fragmentation issue and started to find the best MTU value (thanks to tcpdump 😉
Category: OS
APOC DoS
APOC (A Point Of Control) is a framework for centralized management of configuration settings for Gnome and beyond. APOC, originally developed for JDS (the Gnome implementation of Sun Microsystems) and StarOffice, is part of Solaris as Open Source software. In a standard Solaris installation, APOC is not enabled: # svcs
New Solaris live-CD – BeleniX
There are more and more Solaris Live-CD available. I already tested SchilliX a few months ago. Yesterday, a colleague talked about BeleniX, a new one, based on OpenSolaris. I burned the latest iso image and tested on a HP notebook nx7010. Everything was detected without problems! (FastEthernet, Wifi (802.11g), DVD-burner,
The ARC Cache effect
I installed a new server which uses the Solaris 10 (6/06) best features: ZFS (now officially supported by Sun) and zones. A few hours after the setup, I started the applications and data transfer. Immediately, the memory was almost full (only 300MB free) !? No big process running, nothing strange,
mount /very-very-big
I’m playing (is it the right word? 😉 ) with ZFS on a Solaris box where I just created a pool of 4.5TB in 15″! # df /media Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on media 4825057152 9 4825057117 1% /media # df -h /media Filesystem size used avail capacity
Happy Anniversary OpenSolaris!
33000 downloads 14000 users 100 contributors 40 communities 29 user groups 28 projects 5 distributions 1 year Happy Anniversary OpenSolaris!
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Yesterday, my best friend “Windows Update” agent notified me that updates were available on my XP home desktop. Update process was launched via a RDP session. Reboot. Nothing else! Back @ home, a nice BSoD… I had to perform two restoration points to boot XP correctly! I googled for DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL.
Definition of load average
As seen in my previous post, the load average can become very high. But what does mean those numbers? This question was also posted a few days ago on misc@openbsd.org and here are two replies: > I’m looking for some hints on evaluating load average. You can’t. It’s a statement
Windows open-sourced?
Le numéro un mondial des logiciels, Microsoft, a annoncé mercredi qu’il allait communiquer aux éditeurs de logiciels le code-source de son système d’exploitation vedette Windows. Microsoft va entreprendre ce geste afin de se conformer aux exigences de l’Europe, qui l’a condamné en 2004 pour abus de position dominante. (Belga) #
Enough space?
bash-3.00# df / (/dev/md/dsk/d0 ): 9091770 blocks 658951 files /devices (/devices ): 0 blocks 0 files /system/contract (ctfs ): 0 blocks 2147483618 files /proc (proc ): 0 blocks 7809 files /etc/mnttab (mnttab ): 0 blocks 0 files /etc/svc/volatile (swap ): 4783720 blocks 120244 files /system/object (objfs ): 0 blocks 2147483511