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There is a very old bug in Solaris (now fixed in Nevada) in which the underlying permissions of a mount point affect the overlying mounted filesystem. The normal way to resolve this is to umount the filesystem, correct the permission and remount it.
This is sometime easier said than done, for example, what if [...]

I work with a couple of guys who are quite stuck in their ways and are quite reliant on old tools, one of which is xclipboard(1).
Unfortunately, Gnome comes with it’s own clipboard manager, so when you try to run xclipboard, you get the following:
$ xclipboard
Error: another clipboard is already running
$
Of course, ps(1M) will show no [...]

Installing Habari isn’t really that complicated, however getting OS X up and running ready for the installation requires a bit of work.
Mac OS X 10.5 (aka Leopard) conveniently comes with Apache 2 and PHP 5, so most of the work in setting up a MAMP server has already been done for you. Sure [...]

Solaris 10 10/08 (u6) is due to be released within the next month of so (I don’t have an exact date) and one of the great features to come with it is ZFS boot. You can already use ZFS boot on Nevada and OpenSolaris defaults to ZFS, but this will be the first release [...]

I think one of the greatest features of Habari is it’s multi-site support. Unlike Wordpress, Habari has multi-site support out of the box. This allows you to configure multiple blogs off a single installation of the code with a fair amount of control over how independent each of these blogs are.
Each new blog [...]

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 [...]

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 …

SQL> startup
ORA-27102: out of memory
SVR4 Error: 22: Invalid argument

… and in the Oracle [...]

With all the news of big companies like Yahoo!, IBM, Google, Verisign and Microsoft throwing their weight behind OpenID, I thought I’d investigate this avenue and ultimately ended up jumping on the bandwagon.
The whole point of OpenID is you could use one identity to gain access to a multitude of websites. This is a [...]

I’ve been using Devilspie for quite some time, and detailed steps on compiling rev 0.10 to run on Solaris 10. Well, I’m now using a OpenSolaris/Nevada Sunray server on x86, so I can no longer use my old binary.
Devilspie has had a complete overhaul since I last built it, so my old instructions don’t [...]

You’ve upgraded to OS X Leopard, played with Time Machine, tweaked things to your heart’s content and now you want to play with something else cool you’ve heard has made it’s way into OS X - ZFS.
Unfortunately, Apple have only bundled read-only support for ZFS to date, but we’ll be changing that.

WARNING: ZFS read-write support [...]