Entries tagged with 'Nevada'

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 [...]

I heard about Synergy quite some time ago, but never actually got around to playing with it. Well, yesterday I changed that and took the time to play with it, and I’m quite impressed.
To quote the Synergy site:
Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each [...]

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 [...]

Once upon a time I let it be known that I’d done a fair bit of “playing” with Linux and as a result I attended a RedHat training course. As a result of this, I’ve been given the task of being one of the primary x86/x64 engineers in the UK solution centre. With this [...]

A new WiFi architecture has been integrated into Nevada Build 54 which will pave the way for some pretty cool features in the future, and also will start to bring Solaris inline with (and dare I say, overtake) the likes of Linux on the WiFi front.