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My Essential Software

August 21, 2010 – 4:36 pm

I recently got a new laptop for work, and had to install a bunch of stuff. For what it’s worth here’s what made it in within the first couple of days: 1Password DropBox (these two together are literally the first thing I install) Evernote Quick Search Box (QuickSilver replacement; either is fine for what I [...]

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Performance Testing – A Simple Plan

February 10, 2009 – 5:02 pm

I was asked to outlline what I’d expect someone to decide before they started a performance test exercise. A quick look at StickyMinds shows this document, which looks very good. It is, however, 8 pages long, which is about 7.5 pages longer than I need if my target audience is going to bother with it. [...]

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OpenSolaris 2008.11

November 10, 2008 – 8:51 pm

A while ago I posted on my adventures getting OpenSolaris networking to move from its natural state of notworking (see what I did there?) on a mac mini. Well today I installed the latest release candidate of 2008.11, the forthcoming update, and it went much more smoothly. You still have to install a driver (tip [...]

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Solaris, NWAM and Static IPs

June 19, 2008 – 1:55 pm

A new feature in OpenSolaris is NWAM, the NetWork Auto Magic, um, thingy. It’s a handy tool that automatically configures your network connection. Unfortunately it unhandily has no GUI at the moment, though one is in the works, so if it doesn’t work right first time you can quickly get lost in text files and [...]

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OpenSolaris on Mac Mini

June 13, 2008 – 11:04 am

First of all, don’t. Just don’t. But if you must, here’s the driver to get the ethernet port to work on a Mac Mini under OpenSolaris. You’re welcome.

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