Tag Archives: Tips

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 [...]

By Paul | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged , | Comments (0)

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 [...]

By Paul | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged , | Comments (1)

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.

By Paul | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged , | Comments (2)

Load Balancing Tomcat on Leopard with mod_jk

May 28, 2008 – 2:24 pm

I’ve just had to setup a test system that load balances a site running on Tomcat across multiple computers. My test bed is 3 mac minis, one working as the ‘head’ running Apache, and the other two in the ‘farm’ handling the load. It was a less than painless exercise, so I thought I’d write [...]

By Paul | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged , , | Comments (6)

Relationships

March 5, 2008 – 12:42 pm

Adive from ‘Stuff White People Like‘ on dealing with people who’ve just ended a relationship: It is imperative that you do not attempt to kick them out of their misery by saying things like “get over it,” “there are other people out there,” or “I don’t want to read your poem.” Read, as they say, [...]

By Paul | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (0)