Everyone's favorite Solaris programming book author, Rich Teer was visiting the Sun Menlo Park campus this week, and I got to serve as host for an impromptu...
Everyone's favorite Solaris programming book author, Rich Teer was visiting the Sun Menlo Park campus this week, and I got to serve as host for an impromptu meet-and-greet tour of the building where much of the Solaris core engineering teams work. At one point, we ran into Casper Dik, Solaris FAQ maintainer and designer of Solaris 10's new privilege model, who was also here on a visit. Of course, I couldn't help thinking that were an asteroid to hit the building right then,...
Everyone's favorite Solaris programming book author, Rich Teer was visiting the Sun Menlo Park campus this week, and I got to serve as host for an impromptu meet-and-greet tour of the building...
Xorg 6.8.2 Release Manager Roland Mainz has tagged and bagged Release Candidate 2 and put it out for testing. See his announcement to the Xorg mailing list for...
Xorg 6.8.2 Release Manager Roland Mainz has tagged and bagged Release Candidate 2 and put it out for testing. See his announcement to the Xorg mailing list for details. There's a much smaller number of fixes in this release than RC1, but there's still plenty to test.Like RC1, we've pulled it into the Xorg packages for the next release of Solaris (too late for Solaris 10) - you should see them in Solaris Express around the 2/05 or 3/05 releases.[Technorati Tag: Xorg]...
Xorg 6.8.2 Release Manager Roland Mainz has tagged and bagged Release Candidate 2 and put it out for testing. See his announcement to the Xorg mailing list for details. There's a much smaller number...
Solaris ships with several X configuration utilities which require additional privileges to run. To allow selected users to run these without having to have the...
Solaris ships with several X configuration utilities which require additional privileges to run. To allow selected users to run these without having to have the root password, an RBAC (Role Based Access Control) rights profile has been created with the name "Desktop Configuration". Users with the rights granted by this profile can do these things normally requiring root privileges, starting in Solaris 10 (build s10_73 and later): Change the SMF configuration for the X11 &...
Solaris ships with several X configuration utilities which require additional privileges to run. To allow selected users to run these without having to have the root password, an RBAC (Role...
I mentioned a while ago about the new look of the Solaris 10 login screen (which was updated again after that original post to match the new Solaris logo and...
I mentioned a while ago about the new look of the Solaris 10 login screen (which was updated again after that original post to match the new Solaris logo and branding themes). A question that I've been asked a couple of times since then is how the new look, with the greeting in a smaller text box centered on the right side, affects people who replace the "Welcome to hostname" with another message, like the "Anyone who uses this computer without permission will suffer...
I mentioned a while ago about the new look of the Solaris 10 login screen (which was updated again after that original post to match the new Solaris logo and branding themes). A question that...
After being gone for a week and a half, I've been digging out from under a deep pile of e-mail and RSS feeds...there's a bunch of good stuff in there though....
After being gone for a week and a half, I've been digging out from under a deep pile of e-mail and RSS feeds...there's a bunch of good stuff in there though. Highlights: Advice to college students who want to become software engineers from Joel Spolsky's Joel on Software blog. I especially agree with the advice to learn to communicate well, though it is a mixed blessing - it seems I spend so much time answering questions, writing specs, attending meetings, and such, that I...
After being gone for a week and a half, I've been digging out from under a deep pile of e-mail and RSS feeds...there's a bunch of good stuff in there though. Highlights: Advice to college students...
Jottings.com has trawled through the whois records of domain name registrations and published a list of the oldest still active .com domain names - Sun & IBM...
Jottings.com has trawled through the whois records of domain name registrations and published a list of the oldest still active .com domain names - Sun & IBM tied for 11th place with both domains registered on March 19, 1986. (At the time, I was in 7th grade, learning to use my school's new Macintosh 512k and using the Apple ][+ at home, neither of which had any sort of connection to any other computers other than via floppy transfer.)My first e-mail address was at a slightly...
Jottings.com has trawled through the whois records of domain name registrations and published a list of the oldest still active .com domain names - Sun & IBM tied for 11th place with both...
Catching up on some blog feeds this weekend, I followed a link from Havoc Pennington's blog to this post on fedora-devel-list about investigating boot and...
Catching up on some blog feeds this weekend, I followed a link from Havoc Pennington's blog to this post on fedora-devel-list about investigating boot and desktop load time.While there does appear to be some interesting insight into the process and speeding up the loading of the interesting files, my attention was particularly drawn tothis suggestion for improvement: d. The whole init(1) procedure seems dated; perhaps something more modern built on top of D-BUS is the right...
Catching up on some blog feeds this weekend, I followed a link from Havoc Pennington's blog to this post on fedora-devel-list about investigating boot and desktop load time.While there does appear...
Solaris 10 introduces new linker/loader hardware capabilities support. We have 3 different versions of libc for Solaris x86, the old one we had before plus two...
Solaris 10 introduces new linker/loader hardware capabilities support. We have 3 different versions of libc for Solaris x86, the old one we had before plus two new ones. /usr/lib/libc/libc_hwcap1.so.1: [SSE MMX CMOV SEP FPU] /usr/lib/libc/libc_hwcap2.so.1: [SSE2 SSE MMX CMOV AMD_SYSC FPU]The ELF objects have been tagged with the hardware capabilties required to use that version. As you can see there are different versions for SEE, SSE2 and that the hwcap2 version also has AMD...
Solaris 10 introduces new linker/loader hardware capabilities support. We have 3 different versions of libc for Solaris x86, the old one we had before plus two new...
One of the great things about DHCP is that an a well configured environment there can be lots of interesting local configuration information available. Until...
One of the great things about DHCP is that an a well configured environment there can be lots of interesting local configuration information available. Until Solaris 10 there was no easy way to add your own hooks into this that would run automatically at signficant DHCP events like the bind, extend, drop, release.dhcpagent(1m) now provides such a hook. It is really simple to use, you just create your own /etc/dhcp/eventhook program (which can be a shell script or any other...
One of the great things about DHCP is that an a well configured environment there can be lots of interesting local configuration information available. Until Solaris 10 there was no easy way to add...
