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Sun have done some work in recent times with liveupgrade – the last time I looked at it, a few years back now, it was rubbish. I thought it was about time I took another look, since a lot of the updates in OpenSolaris were looking good. (continue reading…)

Intrigued by my recent benchmarking exercise I decided to take a look at the various operating systems’ performance on a common virtualisation platform. (continue reading…)

Came across an intriguing problem today. Whilst trying to develop a generic Solaris PXE boot solution for x86 Solaris installs I was having a problem with enabling NIS post install. (continue reading…)

A short while ago I got the opportunity to compare the performance of 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…)