Solaris 11 Express SRU4 and VirtualBox 4 bad combo

So I've been tracking the Solaris 11 Express Support repo updates for a while. I had issue today where I couldn't make a network connection to my virtual box guests. They would ping but no ssh and no http connection. The later being important as my VB guest is running a local mirror repo. while ... Read more...

Solaris 11 Express VNC

Okay , not entirely sure why yet but I though I'd like to get VNC server configured on my Solaris machines, perhaps it's with the arrival of the AppleTV 2 in the house freeing up the trusty mac mini workhorse to go back to desktop duties after the last 3+ year as a Plex app media player, anyway ... Read more...

A snooping one line

One of the most useful one liners thought I'd put it up here for my own easy accesssnoop -d nxge0 -x 0 ether\[20:2\]=0x2000For my current place of employment this will show details that are being advertised by the switch, including name and port number , which is handy as our Network services fo... Read more...

reinstall menu option grub

So I have a couple of machine's I'm reinstalling on a regular basis as part of some on going work. Unfortunately PXE booting is not an option for them so it been a process of attaching a virtual CDROM image and then typing in a bunch of kickstart parameters at the boot menu. Well had enough, tim... Read more...

BootCamp Session 22

View Bootcamp Session 22 in a larger map Total Distance: 8.15 km (5.1 mi) Total Time: 1:24:24 Moving Time: 55:52 Average Speed: 5.80 km/h (3.6 mi/h) Average Moving Speed: 8.75 km/h (5.4 mi/h) Max Speed: 68.74 km/h (42.7 mi/h) Min Elevation: 24 m (79 ft) Max Elevation: 88 m (289 ft) Elevation Ga... Read more...