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A short while ago I got the opportunity to test a number of operating systems on the same piece of hardware.

The server in question was a HP DL580G5, but with four 6-core Intel Dunnington CPUs in, each running at 2.66ghz. (continue reading…)

When it comes to picking what Operating System to use for your project, how do you go about picking the ‘right’ one?

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I would never normally use this blog as a place to rant, but I’ve about had enough of O2’s shit customer service. It would appear dancing around the issue and call dumping is common practice. Is it actually possible to get a straight answer out of these people, or to have a call maintained for the full duration without a transfer resulting in the call being cut off?

Can’t wait for my iPhone to be out of contract. I’m off.

I’ve been looking at OpenSolaris a lot more of late, and in particular I’ve been trying to work with AI, the Automated Installer. (continue reading…)

I’ve just had a horrible time trying to install Catalyst::Plugin::AutoCRUD, because of a dependency on WWW::Mechanize. In short, WWW::Mechanize fails to pass it’s tests when you’re working behind an authenticating proxy. (continue reading…)

As much as I like Solaris the packaging system is crap. And fathoming out what package you need to install to gain a particular command is nigh on impossible. (continue reading…)

Joshua Johnson has put a neat post on MacAppStorm about little known shortcuts in OS X, and this one is a particularly great little nugget. (continue reading…)

I recently edited a post on this Wordpress blog and discovered that trying to change the publish time (to bring an old post up to the top of the list) created a temporary world of pain. (continue reading…)

Centralised package delivery on Solaris can be a bit of a pain. Blastwave was a nice solution, but with OpenCSW splitting away from them and the two camps now delivering the same packages to the same disk hierarchy we’re left with too much choice and a confusion of options. They’re still both a good solution, but maybe there is a better option. (continue reading…)

In my earlier post about using local::lib I commented that CPAN wouldn’t untar with the Solaris shipped tar program, and you had to use GNU tar from OpenCSW or Blastwave. 1.94 appears to fix the problem and untars just fine with the native Solaris tar. (continue reading…)