Habari has some pretty stringent requirements that need to be met. Thankfully Joyent’s Shared Accelerator (and I believe all other) accounts meets all of these already so there’s no need to install any additional software or log tickets to get software updated. You will however need to make some configuration changes which I’ll detail here.

Continue reading ‘Install Habari on Joyent’

OpenSolaris has now been updated to build 93, which I believe is actually the preview build for OpenSolaris 2008.11 (though this may change), and best of all ISOs are being generated again and are available via BitTorrent.

Unfortunately, you still can’t update via the Package Manager so you need to update via the CLI as before, but be sure to update your IPS software revision first, just to be safe.

You can find full update details and download the torrent files in the announcement post.

Whilst you’re performing the update, check out these two reviews on the features you can expect in this update.

• An Early Look At OpenSolaris 2008.11 - This is your usual desktop perspective review.
• OpenSolaris 2008.11 - A Preview For The Storage Admin - I think this is a great review of features sysadmins want from a Storage perspective, but no one actually bothers reviewing (probably because they don’t know, or it’s not sensational enough).

Ooops. I made some changes to my .htaccess in a bit of a hurry this morning before coming to work and have only just noticed lildude.co.uk has been offline since. Well, we’re all back up and running now.

Sorry about the outage if you were looking for something.

Wooohooo!! purple-remote (used for controlling Pidgin from the command line) is now in Nevada and works. For some reason purple-remote wasn’t included when Pidgin replaced GAIM on Solaris. I’m not sure which build it was introduced in, but it’s definitely there in build 93. CR 6578100 still needs to be updated to reflect this though and it still needs to be patched in Solaris 10.

Now I can update my utaction scripts to change my IM status whenever I pull my Java card from the Sunray DTU, like I used to do when I used GAIM.

This is probably an old one, but I’ve just discovered and think it’s pretty cool.

Open up a terminal on your Mac and copy and paste the following into the terminal and press enter:

osascript -e 'say "oh This is a silly song silly song silly song this is the silliest song ive ever ever heard So why keep you listening listening listening while you are supposed to work to work to work to work its because i hate my job hate my job hate my job its because i hate my job more than anything else No its because youve no life youve no life youve no life and you better go get one after forwarding this crap" using "cellos"'

For those who don’t have a Mac, I’ve recorded it to MP3 for you.

You Mac will sing to you. From my own little investigating, it seems to only be able to sing in two different “tunes”, the one above and the other to Pomp & Circumstance March No. 1 (type the following into your terminal: say -v Good ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ) but you can change the words to suit your needs.

He’s a little bit of helpful advice: if you are installing Oracle, adding a new instance to an already running installation, or tuning the SGA/PGA sizes on Solaris 10, and you find you get the following on starting that instance:

On the screen …

… and in the Oracle alert log …

Error : EINVAL creating segment of size 0x000000009f000000
fix shm parameters in /etc/system or equivalent

… DON’T call Oracle. You’re likely to experience one or all of the following…

Continue reading ‘HOWTO: Fix “ORA-27102: out of memory” Error on Solaris 10′

Links of interest for 19 May 2008 - 19 Jun 2008:

• June 2008 | TOP500 Supercomputing Sites - Woohoo!!! Sun are finally back in the top 10.
• Anything But a Flash in the Pan - Sun's shares may be tanking at the moment, but you've got to read this to see where Sun is going. Once again, Sun is light years ahead of the competition. Now lets hope they market this and make a killing from it. (Yes I'm a shareholder).
• goosh.org - the unofficial google shell. - Google CLI for the hardcore techie
• Virtualization smackdown: Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.6 vs. VMWare Server 2.0 Beta 2 - A Good comparison of these two free vitualisation products.
• Acroread: Adobe Reader on Solaris x86 coming in 2009! - Wooohooo!!! Finally. Adobe are listening.

I hope you haven’t forgotten: Today is Firefox 3 download day. Head on over and download Firefox 3 for your platform and be a part of history. Help set the new world record for the most downloads in one day.

As of 10am US PDT (18:00 GMT/UTC) you can grab your downloads from GetFirefox.com, and there should be a Solaris version available too.

Update: I’ve just heard on the internal aliases that there won’t be a Solaris/OpenSolaris build available or included in the world record stats. Apparently it’s got to do with some strict restrictions by Guinness. I suspect it’s probably because the Solaris/OpenSolaris builds are contributed builds, not official builds.