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Weekly update

Published on 04/07/2010 in Personal. 3 Comments Tags: , , , .

On monday I had my Minor presentation.

I also worked on the goals I`ve set up earlier this month. I achieved my second goal.

Some work has been done on my website. I switched from Sociable to a more effective button, with more possiblities. I also replaced cforms with another plugin for creating contact forms.

MystOnline.nl also got shape. I updated it to the latest version of WordPress + BuddyPress and filled the website with some content.

After a conversation on MSN I recovered several interviews I did in the past (2004-2007) for Wick-It.com
I also found some promotion material – but since I don`t hold the copyright on it I won`t share it.

On monday I have a reset of an exam. Last time I scored a 5,2 and a 5,5 was the minimum. Hopefully I pass this time, else I have to stay another 5 months at school.

From Thursday till sunday I will be working for the Onderstroom festival as stagehand and for publicity (web editor).

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How to upgrade OpenSolairs 2008.11 to 2009.06

Published on 01/06/2009 in OpenSolaris. 0 Comments Tags: , .

OpenSolaris 2009.06 is launched at CommunityOne West, San Francisco, on June 1 2009.

Of course you can get an iso or usb image directly from opensolaris.com, and many other places, but if you want to upgrade from an existing OpenSolaris 2008.11 instance, here is how you can do that:

Upgrade OpenSolaris 0811 0906 Slide1 How to upgrade OpenSolairs 2008.11 to 2009.06

Source: http://blogs.sun.com/weber/entry/how_to_upgrade_opensolairs_2008

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Howto install the Sun Nimbus Theme for Gnome

Published on 10/04/2009 in Linux and OpenSolaris. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , , .

I personally prefer the OpenSolaris look for Gnome because it`s more clearly then Ubuntu`s Humanlooks.
It`s possible to install this theme under almost any system running Gnome.

The easiest way is installing the proper package from http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Nimbus+(+Debian+and+Ubuntu+packages+)?content=70212
This site contains the packs for Ubuntu 8.04, 8.10 and Debian (both x86 and x86_64).

Another way is compiling and installing the latest version. This is how it goes!

Install the proper requirements and the source;

apt-get -y install build-essential libgtk2.0-dev intltool icon-naming-utils fakeroot devscripts debhelper build-dep gtk2-engines-clearlooks

wget http://dlc.sun.com/osol/jds/downloads/extras/nimbus/nimbus-0.1.2.tar.bz2

tar -xf nimbus-0.1.2.tar.bz2

Next step; compiling the source

./configure --prefix=/usr/

chmod +x debian/rules
Install the binary;

make clean
make

sudo make install

Select the theme in Gnome.

Thats it!

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The OpenSolaris Bible

Published on 21/02/2009 in Books. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , .

OpenSolaris Bible CoverI just received the news (yes i`m a bit late) that the OpenSolaris Bible is available.

The OpenSolaris bible is written by Sun employees; Nicholas A. Solter, Jerry Jelinek and David Miner. It`s a wealthy 1008 pages thick.

 The book is available at all good bookstores and Amazon.com

Free sample chapters are available at;
http://blogs.sun.com/observatory/en_US/entry/sample_chapter_from_opensolaris_bible and http://blogs.sun.com/observatory/en_US/entry/two_more_chapters_from_the

Table of Contents

I. Introduction to OpenSolaris.

1. What Is OpenSolaris?

2. Installing OpenSolaris.

3. OpenSolaris Crash Course.

II. Using OpenSolaris

4. The Desktop.

5. Printers and Peripherals.

6. Software Management.

III. OpenSolaris File Systems, Networking, and Security.

7. Disks,  Local File Systems, and the Volume Manager.

8. ZFS.

9. Networking.

10. Network File Systems and Directory Services.

11. Security.

IV. OpenSolaris Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability.

12. Fault Management.

13. Service Management.

14. Monitoring and Observability.

15. DTrace.

16. Clustering for High Availability.

V. OpenSolaris Virtualization.

17. Virtualization Overview.

18. Resource Management.

19. Zones.

20. xVM Hypervisor.

21. Logical Domains (LDoms).

22. VirtualBox.

VI. Developing and Deploying on OpenSolaris.

23. Deploying a Web Stack on OpenSolaris.

24. Developing on OpenSolaris.

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Five reasons to choose OpenSolaris for your webserver

Published on 29/07/2008 in Projects. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , .

opensolaris logo Five reasons to choose OpenSolaris for your webserverOpenSolaris 2008.05 is the first official binary release. It was also called project Indiana.
The most important features are Dtrace monitoring, ZFS filesystem, VirtualBox for virtualization and the LiveCD function.
OpenSolaris uses the Gnome GUI which is the same GUI as Ubuntu and other Linux Distro`s.

The five reasons why i will choose OpenSolaris 2008.05 instead of Linux for my next webserver;

1. The price (free)

It`s free and its Open Source. Using the software on multiple servers doesn`t cost you a penny more!

It`s possible to order a free (bootable) DVD with OpenSolaris 2008.05 on it (click here to order the dvd)

2. Stability

Because OpenSolaris is based on Solaris (which is based on Unix System V, like IBM AIX and HP-UX) it`s reliable.
Solaris is the number 2 most reliable OS with uptimes over 99,98% (if you don`t believe me better check out these links; http://blog.linuxoss.com/2007/05/linux-versus-windows-os-impact-on-uptime-and-speed/ )

Sun contributes to a range of open source projects, including their productrange MySQLTM, NetBeansTM, GlassFishTM, OpenOffice.orgTM, OpenJDKTM, java.net, and many others which you might have heard of.

3. Performance

With the monitoring and analysis tool Dtrace (which stands for Dynamic Tracing)
DTrace provides the observability to accelerate application development and optimization of Apache/MySQL/PHP (AMP) and MySQL/Apache/Ruby/Solaris (MARS) stacks which run on the system.

4. Solaris ZFS Filesystem

ZFS stands for Zettabyte file system, which is Sun`s way of datastorage. Ever wanted a filesystem which doesn`t need maintenance or is 128 bit?

Unlike other filesystems it has been designed with the idea in mind that all disks will eventually fail. It has excellent data-loss detection mechanisms and can even detect silent data corruption (see the ZFS end-to-end data integrity post).

The thing that I like about ZFS the most is the freedom when assigning resources to different mount points. With other file systems I was always limited about how I structured my partition table (e.g. space for /usr, space for /home etc.). With ZFS there are so called pools and all the mount points share the same pool, so it is much harder to get out of space. (Quote from The Observatory, Sun Blog)

5. Virtualization

OpenSolaris is also Xen-hypervisor enabled as both a virtualization domain and guest.
As a separate free download, Sun also provides VirtualBox as host-based virtualization for Linux and Windows compatibility. I recommend you to try VirtualBox (version 1.6.2) if your going to experiment with virtualization since its totally free.

 

And if your going to switch to OpenSolaris I recommend checking out these sites;

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