Monthly Archives: February 2009

ccrypt

Posted on February 26, 2009 by Ryan

I was looking for a file encryption tool that’s like axcrypt for my unix systems. I didn’t want to use crypt because of what people say how weak it is. I stumbled upon ccrypt though which uses the Rijndael cipher … Continue reading →

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sunsolve frustration

Posted on February 26, 2009 by Ryan

Rant on: I was trying to download a patch today (137148-04) from sunsolve.sun.com but I got denied saying that I didn’t have a valid Sun Service Plan. I checked my settings and it showed that I’m good up to September … Continue reading →

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Tape disappearing/reappearing in fabric

Posted on February 20, 2009 by Ryan

So I came into work and fell into a problem with backups. I noticed that my jobs have been running for 2 days and haven’t finished yet so I figured something was wrong. Checking the logs, I saw that  fctl: … Continue reading →

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Gcc compile on Solaris 10

Posted on February 19, 2009 by Ryan

Just so hard to compile a 4.3.x release of gcc on Solaris 10 (sparc and i86pc).  I remember trying to do it during winter recess but wasn’t able to for some reason. I am trying again and seeing if I … Continue reading →

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Some more bads for OpenSolaris 2008.11

Posted on February 18, 2009 by Ryan

Here some more bad things so far for my OpenSolaris install: Bootup time takes forever. I haven’t oficially timed it but it just feels really slow. SUNWrdesktop packaged doesn’t work so hot for me. When I rdp into my Windows … Continue reading →

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OpenSolaris 2008.11 installed

Posted on February 17, 2009 by Ryan

So I installed OpenSolaris 2008.11 over my Windows 7 box at work. I was thinking about getting rid of my Ubuntu Inrepid Ibex at home and running OpenSolaris 11 full time, but decided to check it out first at work. … Continue reading →

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WordPress 2.7.x

Posted on February 16, 2009 by Ryan

Ever since upgrading to WordPress 2.7.x, I couldn’t be happier. The interface is extremely nice to use and the upgrades are a painless one click upgrade. Makes me wish I could code this well.

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iozone on solaris 10 amd64 i86pc

Posted on February 15, 2009 by Ryan

Trying compile iozone 3.319 benchmark tool on Solaris 10 amd64 just simply did not work out of the box like I hoped. Here were my errors: gmake Solaris10gcc-64   Building iozone for Solaris10gcc-64   gcc -O -c  -Dunix -DHAVE_ANSIC_C -DASYNC_IO -D__LP64__ \ … Continue reading →

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rsync’ing pst files

Posted on February 14, 2009 by Ryan

Found out that if a pst file is in use by Outlook, and the file is located on a NAS which is both CIFS enabled and NFS enabled, I can’t rsync the file!  rsync: read errors mapping “outlook/outlook.pst”: Permission denied … Continue reading →

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Solaris packages

Posted on February 13, 2009 by Ryan

So it looks like I used the instructions on the SunFreeware’s website to creating my packages. Once I got going, it was pretty easy to do! I did run into a problem and it was basically I had two pkginfo’s … Continue reading →

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