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Solaris Live Upgrade and Patches
I encountered a bit of a challenging question today…
Suppose I have Solaris 10 1/06 (update 1) installed and I’ve patched it with various patches that are actually provided as part of a much later release, for example Solaris 10 11/06 (update 3). Will I have to reapply those patches if I perform a live [...]
OpenSolaris 2008.05
OpenSolaris 2008.05, aka “Project Indiana” will be officially released to the world later today (US time), but it’s already available now for download from it’s dedicated site - www.opensolaris.com.
For the uninitiated, I’ll quote the OpenSolaris docs…
Sun have just released their latest version of Solaris 10 - Solaris 10 5/08 (aka update 5) which includes loads of enhancements, bug fixes and additions. I’m not going to go into these - you can check the “What’s New” guide for more details.
Well, I’ve only had the Habari source installed for less than a week and I’ve already contributed and helped to resolve a bug (#182). The Habari guys, in this case moeffju, are pretty damn quick at sorting things like this out if you’re able to actively work with them via IRC and using SVN. [...]
Wordpress is a Memory Hog
Did you know Wordpress is one major memory hog? No? Neither did I until I started getting “500 Internal Server” errors after having my hosting account at Joyent moved from FreeBSD to OpenSolaris, with it’s resource management functionality being used to it’s full extent.
You’ll be surprised to hear this appears to be a [...]
Firebug for Firefox 3
Firebug, or the lack there of, WAS the only thing stopping me from using Firefox 3 on a more permanent basis, especially now it’s much faster and integrates better on the Mac and given that Safari seems to be quite selective at what it caches. But not anymore.
With Firebug being such a great tool, I [...]
Wordpress 2.5 Now Available
30Mar08I was a little slow on the uptake, but Wordpress 2.5 was officially released to the world yesterday. I’ve now upgraded all my blogs (lildude.co.uk and colinseymour.co.uk) to WP 2.5. Now to put the finishing touches my SmugGal plugin and I may just had a workable pluggin for everyone within a few weeks.
Now Running Wordpress 2.5 RC2
26Mar08lildude.co.uk is now running on Wordpress 2.5 RC2. Hopefully this will iron out some of the niggles I encountered with RC1. If you’re tempted to upgrade, check out the screencast showing some of the cool new features.
I’m about to live on the wild side: I’m about to upgrade Wordpress on this site to the 2.5 RC1 sneak peak that was announced the other day. If you see any errors or any problems, please ignore them for the moment.
UPDATE: Well, that was quite painless. I can’t say I’m too impressed with [...]
The MySQL Preferences pane that comes with the MySQL download from the MySQL site is broken on Leopard, and has been for quite some time.
It installs and correctly reflects the current status of any running MySQL processes, but the “Start MySQL Server” / “Stop MySQL Server” button doesn’t do anything.
Well, today I finally got [...]
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