tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66155452008-09-28T00:35:29.835+02:00.marco.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14868170601948152821noreply@blogger.comBlogger129125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615545.post-77912675640509196152008-08-28T12:59:00.002+02:002008-08-28T13:08:06.570+02:00

I work for an IT company who primarily use Dell servers for their IT infrastructure nowadays. Before using Dell as our hardware vendor we used (and are still using) Sun hardware to run our enterprise critical Oracle databases on the Solaris OS. Its been a long long time since we ordered any new Sun hardware and the current Sun boxes are in much need of a replacement (EOL reached some time back).

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I was browsing thru the App Store to see if any apps would catch my interest and then i noticed a very nice looking instant messenger app called: Palringo Instant Messenger. To my knowledge this is the 1st instant messenger app for the iPhone available thru the App Store that supports multiple messaging services. Here's the, almost complete, list: AOL's AIM Google Talk Yahoo! Messenger ICQ

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I just got back from the cinema having watched The Dark Knight. Wow what an awesome movie. I really liked it's predecessor Batman Begins but this one even topped that. I don't agree with the statement some ppl have made saying that Heath Ledger's performance as The Joker was worthy of an Oscar tho. Don't get me wrong, he played the part pretty good but I just don't think it's Oscar material. I do

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A while ago my gf and I went to Amsterdam and to our surprise we walked straight to a lil shop which sells nothing but imported food n' candy from the states. So we stocked up on pop tarts and some other yummy goodies and last but not least American pancake mix (Mrs. Butter-worth's) :) So we made pancakes last night and they were frickin' delicious :) This is 1 store we'll keep going back to

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W00t .. ordered 2 tickets on presale for the october 13th Disturbed venue in the Heineken Music Hall (HMH) in Amsterdam and they arrived in the mail :D Hehe these babies are secure :)

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My gf and I were at the shops and decided to visit the local trendhopper store. That's when we saw this awesome tacky couch .. Tacky in a good way tho :) See for yourself Geolocate this postPosted with LifeCast

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Maiden time is not too far away and today I learned Disturbed will be coming to Holland this October with the presale starting tomorrow at 5pm :D Can you say Woot?Geolocate this postPosted with LifeCast

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I've had my iphone since July 18 and have never enjoyed any cell phone as much as this gorgeous device :D The keyboard was a lil getting used to but I'm able now to use it using 2 fingers and I just love the auto correction to death. I've installed several apps from the app store and been having a blast with them. The iPhone is the best thing I've bought in a long long time :) can you say Woot ?

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Posting this blog entry using my iPhone 3G :)Geolocate this postPosted with LifeCast

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Only 4 frickin' days to go until WWDC08 (WorldWide Developers Conference) keynote where hopefully the 2nd gen iPhone will be unveiled!! this upcoming monday at 19:00 Steve Jobs will kick-off THE keynote the whole iPhone loving world ( that means me very much included :P ) has been waiting for .. hoping for the introduction of the 2nd gen 3G iPhone :) for ppl like me not living in the States we

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Im currently running sxce 75 and, as usual, downloaded the latest 3 x86 chunks (build 76) from the OpenSolaris site. After unzipping and having verified the chunks' md5 checksums ( digest -va md5 file is yur friend ) it was time to concat the 3 files together to create the iso which is needed for the LiveUpgrade process. mcp% cat sol-nv-b76-x86-dvd-iso-a sol-nv-b76-x86-dvd-iso-b sol-nv-b76-x86-

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For those of us lucky enuff to run Leopard, we all know what great new features have been introduced. However, a difference was spotted by a friend and former colleague of mine in the behavior of the /bin/ps utility. Read his rants and findings Here

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Well, first after being really amused by the initial article in Part 1 i found this little gem of an Article. This seems like some serious exploit in the Safari webbrowser code. Luckily tho Apple has been notified of the exploit and according to the article a proposed fix with full public disclosure is coming at the BlackHat conference on August 2nd. yours truly is eagerly awaiting the

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I know, it's been a while since my last post ;) I just read such a hilarious article via my friends from Digg i just couldn't withhold to share with you guys. I really cracked myself up reading this one, i was actually crying from laughter. You be the judge, hop over to the article and see for yurself.

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I recently started playing with LiveUpgrade since i wanted at least 2 boot environments residing on a single-disk system which i could easily boot from so it was time for a little HowTo :) This HowTo describes the process to create a 2nd BE (Boot Environment) using the LU (LiveUpgrade) suite of tools on a single-disk system and to use that 2nd BE to upgrade to a later nevada build to boot from.

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Here is another post about patching Sun Solaris systems. Even though I personally think that the features provided by smpatch(1M) are an improvement compared to the previous patch utilities like patchdiag, patchcheck and patchpro there's always room for improvement. So i started snooping around to find a utility called PCA which stands for Patch Check Advanced. PCA is only 2 files, a small perl

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Okay, here a little post to stay on the security topic :) How does one enable the supplied packet filter within the Solaris 10 OS to secure ones system? Note: in my case, i already setup the actual filtering policy by populating /etc/ipf/ipf.conf. Well here we go: You start by reading either ipf(1M) or ipfilter(5) which clearly states you need to edit /etc/ipf/pfil.ap to include the names of

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A colleague at work told me that he changed the CRYPT_DEFAULT in policy.conf(4) on his nevada box to md5 (the Sun implementation of md5). I actually forgot to change the default unix crypt for generating the password for my user login when i installed my Solaris 10 1/05 system a long time ago so it was about time I changed this myself into something a little more secure wouldn't you say? ;) The

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I'm running the official Solaris 10 6/06 (aka Update 2) release on an x86 laptop. This release comes with ZFS version 2 and I decided to try it out a bit. Having played with ZFS before running on various builds of Solaris Express Community Release (SX:CR for short) i was interested to give ZFS on a Solaris 10 release a spin. I got to this 6/06 install via an upgrade from the Update 1 release (

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Yesterday I got an invite via email from Sun Microsystems in The Netherlands to attend the first NLOSUG meeting at their HQ in Amersfoort. Much of the following text is taken from the invite email I got from Sun. The meeting will take place Thursday the 26th of October and Solaris users, enthusiasts, experts, novices are all welcome. Casper Dik, the resident guru and CAB member will introduce

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Yesterday evening i downloaded another EVE movie on EVE Files.com. it was a competition between 2 EVE corps. great in-depth commentary is provided by 2 commentators during the battle, which is really great. the funny thing is that today i read an /. article about EVETV which actually shows an online coverage schedule when the matches can be followed freely by the audience. who needs sports on

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July 10 was my birthday. Rebecca (my wife) invited some friends over at our house for a little get together and bbq. the birthday party was the 1st surprise for me. then after the bbq was about over, she started to bring out some presents. that too was a surprise but the surprise only became bigger when the presents turned out to be EVE Online goodies :) i got: . an EVE shirt, black . an EVE

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w00t, the -HEAD branch of FreeBSD (a.k.a FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT) runs on Sun's UltraSPARC T1 processor systems :) to get a feel what kind of an achievement this is: the UltraSPARC T1 systems is in essence a 32 cpu system so this is massive SMP'ing. so when one talks about scaling, i'd say the FreeBSD Release Engineering team has done a wonderful job getting their development branch to run on Sun's

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I know it's been quite some time since my last post but as the title of this post points out, i've been rather busy playing EVE :) since then i've joined a corporation and have taken part in 2 wars. a lot of buzz is taking place on the official EVE forum about the improved gfx engine (hopefully soon to be released). to illustrate, here are some pix comparing a Megathron battleship rendered via

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A colleague at work introduced me to the massive multiplayer online game (MMOG) 'EVE Online'. EVE is a sci-fi based game in which the player takes the role of a spaceship pilot, seeking fame, fortune and adventure. the game itself won't cost you anything (a 500meg M$ windows download executable) and you can apply for a 14 day trial account to see if the game is for you. if it is, you can even

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