OpenSolaris screenshots

 
A couple of screenshots from the plain desktop, I specially enjoy the one on the right.
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The Desktop Effects at its best, with the Desktop Wall on the spotlight
The Atheros WiFi and the plain vanilla ethernet adapter do not work out of the box, you need to install drivers for both of them.
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The codecs for mp3, as well as for DVD playing are not included on the default install, patent issues, business as usual... Just like on a plain vanilla Ubuntu install.
You access CompizConfig Settings Manager thru the Visual Effect tab of Appareance
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Updates dujour

A couple of updates, just fresh from the install:

2009-03-30 18:13:33 status installed libsndfile1 1.0.17-4ubuntu0.8.10.1
2009-03-30 18:13:33 status installed libc6 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu9

OpenSolaris links

A bunch of links I have been gathering previous to the install.

OpenSolaris HCL Presario F700
NVIDIA Solaris Display Driver
Play Video Files in OpenSolaris - DVD, .avi, .wmv, .mpeg etc
Solaris version of Flash Player 9

As easy as this:

cp libflashplayer.so ->  /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/

OpenSolaris HCL AR242x 802.11 agb Wirless PCI Express Adapter

As easy as this (??) (provided you are already connected to internet)

#pkgadd -d SUNWatheros
#update_drv -a -i ' "pci168c,1c" ' ath 

Wireless Network Driver for the Atheros Chipset (ath)
Atheros drivers
Atheros AR242x support

OpenSolaris 2008.05 Meet the MacBook Pro
Two installations of OpenSolaris 2008.05 - General thoughts and impressions

Tango with OpenSolaris

Tested it on Tango, my Compaq F700 beauty today. I'm completely in love with it. Tested the LiveCD, but I guess I'm all for installing it for good on the lappie.

Everything seems to be working A Ok, except for the Atheros WiFi adapter, the main surprise its the "Desktop Effects". The NVIDIA card it get to automatically detected, and the effects enabled out of the box on the laptop.

A small annoyance, there is a hot corner that enables the Desktop Wallpaper Compiz plugin, it is set by default on the corner just above the Applications Menu entry.

Here is a copy of the dmesg from the box:

Sun Mar 29 15:57:50 PDT 2009
Mar 29 15:38:39 opensolaris genunix: [ID 540533 kern.notice] ^MSunOS Release 5.11 Version snv_101b 32-bit
Mar 29 15:38:39 opensolaris genunix: [ID 172908 kern.notice] Copyright 1983-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Mar 29 15:38:39 opensolaris Use is subject to license terms.
Mar 29 15:38:39 opensolaris unix: [ID 126719 kern.info] features: 612e7fff
Mar 29 15:38:39 opensolaris unix: [ID 168242 kern.info] mem = 916408K (0x37eee000)
Mar 29 15:38:39 opensolaris genunix: [ID 897550 kern.info] Using default device instance data
Mar 29 15:38:39 opensolaris unix: [ID 972737 kern.info] Skipping psm: xpv_psm
Mar 29 15:38:39 opensolaris rootnex: [ID 466748 kern.info] root nexus = i86pc
Mar 29 15:38:39 opensolaris iommulib: [ID 321598 kern.info] NOTICE: iommulib_nexus_register: rootnex-1: Succesfully registered NEXUS i86pc nexops=fec911f8
Mar 29 15:38:39 opensolaris rootnex: [ID 349649 kern.info] pseudo0 at root
Mar 29 15:38:39 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] pseudo0 is /pseudo
Mar 29 15:38:39 opensolaris rootnex: [ID 349649 kern.info] scsi_vhci0 at root
Mar 29 15:38:39 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] scsi_vhci0 is /scsi_vhci
Mar 29 15:38:39 opensolaris rootnex: [ID 349649 kern.info] isa0 at root
Mar 29 15:38:39 opensolaris pci_autoconfig: [ID 139057 kern.info] NOTICE: reprogram io-range on ppb[0/d/0]: 0x2000 ~ 0x2fff
Mar 29 15:38:39 opensolaris pci_autoconfig: [ID 595143 kern.info] NOTICE: add io-range on subtractive ppb[0/8/0]: 0x5000 ~ 0x5fff
Mar 29 15:38:39 opensolaris pci_autoconfig: [ID 374940 kern.info] NOTICE: add mem-range on subtractive ppb[0/8/0]: 0x40000000 ~ 0x400fffff
Mar 29 15:38:39 opensolaris pcplusmp: [ID 658230 kern.info] NOTICE: apic: local nmi: 0 1 1 1
Mar 29 15:38:39 opensolaris amd_iommu: [ID 251261 kern.info] NOTICE: amd_iommu: No AMD IOMMU ACPI IVRS table
Mar 29 15:38:39 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: acpippm0
Mar 29 15:38:39 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] acpippm0 is /pseudo/acpippm@0
Mar 29 15:38:39 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: ppm0
Mar 29 15:38:39 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] ppm0 is /pseudo/ppm@0
Mar 29 15:38:39 opensolaris rootnex: [ID 349649 kern.info] ramdisk0 at root
Mar 29 15:38:39 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] ramdisk0 is /ramdisk
Mar 29 15:38:39 opensolaris genunix: [ID 308332 kern.info] root on /ramdisk:a fstype ufs
Mar 29 15:38:39 opensolaris unix: [ID 190185 kern.info] SMBIOS v2.4 loaded (726 bytes)
Mar 29 15:38:39 opensolaris genunix: [ID 408114 kern.info] /cpus (cpunex0) online
Mar 29 15:38:39 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: dld0
Mar 29 15:38:39 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] dld0 is /pseudo/dld@0
Mar 29 15:38:39 opensolaris rootnex: [ID 349649 kern.info] npe0 at root: space 0 offset 0
Mar 29 15:38:39 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] npe0 is /pci@0,0
Mar 29 15:38:39 opensolaris npe: [ID 236367 kern.info] PCI Express-device: display@12, nvidia0
Mar 29 15:38:39 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] nvidia0 is /pci@0,0/display@12
Mar 29 15:38:39 opensolaris i8042: [ID 526150 kern.info] 8042 device:  keyboard@0, kb8042 # 0
Mar 29 15:38:39 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] kb80420 is /isa/i8042@1,60/keyboard@0
Mar 29 15:38:39 opensolaris i8042: [ID 526150 kern.info] 8042 device:  mouse@1, mouse8042 # 0
Mar 29 15:38:39 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] mouse80420 is /isa/i8042@1,60/mouse@1
Mar 29 15:38:41 opensolaris npe: [ID 236367 kern.info] PCI Express-device: pci103c,30ea@2,1, ehci0
Mar 29 15:38:41 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] ehci0 is /pci@0,0/pci103c,30ea@2,1
Mar 29 15:38:42 opensolaris npe: [ID 236367 kern.info] PCI Express-device: pci103c,30ea@4,1, ehci1
Mar 29 15:38:42 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] ehci1 is /pci@0,0/pci103c,30ea@4,1
Mar 29 15:38:42 opensolaris npe: [ID 236367 kern.info] PCI Express-device: pci103c,30ea@2, ohci0
Mar 29 15:38:42 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] ohci0 is /pci@0,0/pci103c,30ea@2
Mar 29 15:38:42 opensolaris npe: [ID 236367 kern.info] PCI Express-device: pci103c,30ea@4, ohci1
Mar 29 15:38:42 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] ohci1 is /pci@0,0/pci103c,30ea@4
Mar 29 15:38:42 opensolaris unix: [ID 950921 kern.info] cpu0: x86 (AuthenticAMD 70FC2 family 15 model 124 step 2 clock 2000 MHz)
Mar 29 15:38:42 opensolaris unix: [ID 950921 kern.info] cpu0: Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3600+
Mar 29 15:38:42 opensolaris npe: [ID 236367 kern.info] PCI Express-device: pci10de,563@d, pcie_pci1
Mar 29 15:38:42 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] pcie_pci1 is /pci@0,0/pci10de,563@d
Mar 29 15:38:42 opensolaris acpica: [ID 967278 kern.notice] ACPI Error (nsxfeval-0197): No return value [20060721]
Mar 29 15:38:42 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: tzmon0
Mar 29 15:38:42 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] tzmon0 is /pseudo/tzmon@0
Mar 29 15:38:45 opensolaris nwamd[21]: [ID 604558 daemon.error] scf_instance_get_snapshot() failed: entity not found
Mar 29 15:38:45 opensolaris last message repeated 2 times
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris rootnex: [ID 349649 kern.info] xsvc0 at root: space 0 offset 0
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] xsvc0 is /xsvc@0,0
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris isa: [ID 202937 kern.info] ISA-device: pit_beep0
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] pit_beep0 is /isa/pit_beep
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris npe: [ID 236367 kern.info] PCI Express-device: pci103c,30ea@7, audiohd0
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] audiohd0 is /pci@0,0/pci103c,30ea@7
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris npe: [ID 236367 kern.info] PCI Express-device: pci10de,561@8, pci_pci0
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] pci_pci0 is /pci@0,0/pci10de,561@8
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris genunix: [ID 640982 kern.info]  ATAPI device at targ 0, lun 0 lastlun 0x0
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris genunix: [ID 846691 kern.info]  model Optiarc CDRWDVD CRX890A
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris npe: [ID 236367 kern.info] PCI Express-device: ide@0, ata0
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] ata0 is /pci@0,0/pci-ide@6/ide@0
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris genunix: [ID 182205 kern.info]  MultiwordDMA mode 2 selected
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris scsi: [ID 193665 kern.info] sd0 at ata0: target 0 lun 0
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] sd0 is /pci@0,0/pci-ide@6/ide@0/sd@0,0
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris genunix: [ID 640982 kern.info]  IDE device at targ 0, lun 0 lastlun 0x0
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris genunix: [ID 846691 kern.info]  model FUJITSU MHY2120BH
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris genunix: [ID 479077 kern.info]  ATA/ATAPI-8 supported, majver 0x1f8 minver 0x42
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris npe: [ID 236367 kern.info] PCI Express-device: ide@0, ata2
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] ata2 is /pci@0,0/pci-ide@9/ide@0
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris genunix: [ID 773945 kern.info]  UltraDMA mode 5 selected
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris gda: [ID 243001 kern.info] Disk0: 
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris ata: [ID 496167 kern.info] cmdk0 at ata2 target 0 lun 0
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] cmdk0 is /pci@0,0/pci-ide@9/ide@0/cmdk@0,0
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: pseudo1
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] pseudo1 is /pseudo/zconsnex@1
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: llc10
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] llc10 is /pseudo/llc1@0
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: fcp0
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] fcp0 is /pseudo/fcp@0
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: ramdisk1024
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] ramdisk1024 is /pseudo/ramdisk@1024
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: devinfo0
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] devinfo0 is /pseudo/devinfo@0
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: lockstat0
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] lockstat0 is /pseudo/lockstat@0
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: lofi0
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] lofi0 is /pseudo/lofi@0
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: dtrace0
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] dtrace0 is /pseudo/dtrace@0
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: profile0
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] profile0 is /pseudo/profile@0
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: systrace0
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] systrace0 is /pseudo/systrace@0
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: fbt0
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] fbt0 is /pseudo/fbt@0
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: sdt0
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] sdt0 is /pseudo/sdt@0
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: fasttrap0
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] fasttrap0 is /pseudo/fasttrap@0
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: fcsm0
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] fcsm0 is /pseudo/fcsm@0
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: power0
Mar 29 15:38:46 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] power0 is /pseudo/power@0
Mar 29 15:38:47 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: zfs0
Mar 29 15:38:47 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] zfs0 is /pseudo/zfs@0
Mar 29 15:38:47 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: srn0
Mar 29 15:38:47 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] srn0 is /pseudo/srn@0
Mar 29 15:38:47 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: nvidia255
Mar 29 15:38:47 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] nvidia255 is /pseudo/nvidia@255
Mar 29 15:38:47 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: lx_systrace0
Mar 29 15:38:47 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] lx_systrace0 is /pseudo/lx_systrace@0
Mar 29 15:38:47 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: ucode0
Mar 29 15:38:47 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] ucode0 is /pseudo/ucode@0
Mar 29 15:39:15 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: fssnap0
Mar 29 15:39:15 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] fssnap0 is /pseudo/fssnap@0
Mar 29 15:39:15 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: winlock0
Mar 29 15:39:15 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] winlock0 is /pseudo/winlock@0
Mar 29 15:39:15 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: pm0
Mar 29 15:39:15 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] pm0 is /pseudo/pm@0
Mar 29 15:39:15 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: pool0
Mar 29 15:39:15 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] pool0 is /pseudo/pool@0
Mar 29 15:39:15 opensolaris ipf: [ID 774698 kern.info] IP Filter: v4.1.9, running.
Mar 29 15:39:15 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: nsmb0
Mar 29 15:39:15 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] nsmb0 is /pseudo/nsmb@0
Mar 29 15:39:31 opensolaris genunix: [ID 390243 kern.info] Creating /etc/devices/devid_cache
Mar 29 15:39:46 opensolaris nwamd[23]: [ID 821790 daemon.warning] svc:/system/device/local:default never came up
Mar 29 15:39:51 opensolaris genunix: [ID 390243 kern.info] Creating /etc/devices/devname_cache
Mar 29 15:39:55 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: nvidia255
Mar 29 15:39:55 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] nvidia255 is /pseudo/nvidia@255
Mar 29 15:40:02 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: devinfo0
Mar 29 15:40:02 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] devinfo0 is /pseudo/devinfo@0
Mar 29 15:40:02 opensolaris npe: [ID 236367 kern.info] PCI Express-device: pci103c,30ea@7, audiohd0
Mar 29 15:40:02 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] audiohd0 is /pci@0,0/pci103c,30ea@7
Mar 29 15:40:09 opensolaris gnome-session[664]: [ID 702911 daemon.warning] EggSMClient-WARNING: Desktop file '/usr/share/gnome/autostart/desktop-print-management-applet.desktop' has malformed Icon key 'print-manager.png'(should not include extension)
Mar 29 15:41:36 opensolaris usba: [ID 912658 kern.info] USB 1.10 device (usb45e,47) operating at low speed (USB 1.x) on USB 1.10 root hub: mouse@2, hid0 at bus address 2
Mar 29 15:41:36 opensolaris usba: [ID 349649 kern.info]  Microsoft  5-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM)
Mar 29 15:41:36 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] hid0 is /pci@0,0/pci103c,30ea@2/mouse@2
Mar 29 15:41:36 opensolaris genunix: [ID 408114 kern.info] /pci@0,0/pci103c,30ea@2/mouse@2 (hid0) online
Mar 29 15:43:37 opensolaris nwamd[23]: [ID 665447 daemon.notice] Terminated received, shutting down
Mar 29 15:44:38 opensolaris svc.startd[7]: [ID 122153 daemon.warning] svc:/network/physical:nwam: Method or service exit timed out.  Killing contract 8.
Mar 29 15:44:38 opensolaris svc.startd[7]: [ID 748625 daemon.error] network/physical:nwam failed: transitioned to maintenance (see 'svcs -xv' for details)
Mar 29 15:45:18 opensolaris rootnex: [ID 349649 kern.info] xsvc0 at root: space 0 offset 0
Mar 29 15:45:18 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] xsvc0 is /xsvc@0,0
Mar 29 15:45:18 opensolaris gda: [ID 243001 kern.info] Disk0: 
Mar 29 15:45:18 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: llc10
Mar 29 15:45:18 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] llc10 is /pseudo/llc1@0
Mar 29 15:45:18 opensolaris ata: [ID 496167 kern.info] cmdk0 at ata2 target 0 lun 0
Mar 29 15:45:18 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] cmdk0 is /pci@0,0/pci-ide@9/ide@0/cmdk@0,0
Mar 29 15:45:18 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: fcp0
Mar 29 15:45:18 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] fcp0 is /pseudo/fcp@0
Mar 29 15:45:18 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: ramdisk1024
Mar 29 15:45:18 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] ramdisk1024 is /pseudo/ramdisk@1024
Mar 29 15:45:18 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: lockstat0
Mar 29 15:45:18 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] lockstat0 is /pseudo/lockstat@0
Mar 29 15:45:18 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: profile0
Mar 29 15:45:18 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] profile0 is /pseudo/profile@0
Mar 29 15:45:18 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: systrace0
Mar 29 15:45:18 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] systrace0 is /pseudo/systrace@0
Mar 29 15:45:18 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: fbt0
Mar 29 15:45:18 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] fbt0 is /pseudo/fbt@0
Mar 29 15:45:18 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: sdt0
Mar 29 15:45:18 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] sdt0 is /pseudo/sdt@0
Mar 29 15:45:18 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: fcsm0
Mar 29 15:45:18 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] fcsm0 is /pseudo/fcsm@0
Mar 29 15:45:18 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: lx_systrace0
Mar 29 15:45:18 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] lx_systrace0 is /pseudo/lx_systrace@0
Mar 29 15:45:18 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: ucode0
Mar 29 15:45:18 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] ucode0 is /pseudo/ucode@0
Mar 29 15:45:18 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: fssnap0
Mar 29 15:45:18 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] fssnap0 is /pseudo/fssnap@0
Mar 29 15:45:18 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: winlock0
Mar 29 15:45:18 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] winlock0 is /pseudo/winlock@0
Mar 29 15:45:18 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: pm0
Mar 29 15:45:18 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] pm0 is /pseudo/pm@0
Mar 29 15:45:18 opensolaris pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: nsmb0
Mar 29 15:45:18 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] nsmb0 is /pseudo/nsmb@0
Mar 29 15:46:03 opensolaris ufs: [ID 845546 kern.notice] NOTICE: alloc: /: file system full
Mar 29 15:47:02 opensolaris last message repeated 2 times
Mar 29 15:49:14 opensolaris usba: [ID 912658 kern.info] USB 2.0 device (usb8ec,8) operating at hi speed (USB 2.x) on USB 2.0 root hub: storage@1, scsa2usb0 at bus address 2
Mar 29 15:49:14 opensolaris usba: [ID 349649 kern.info]  Memorex TD Classic 003C 0E615A60D181E9A3
Mar 29 15:49:14 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] scsa2usb0 is /pci@0,0/pci103c,30ea@2,1/storage@1
Mar 29 15:49:14 opensolaris genunix: [ID 408114 kern.info] /pci@0,0/pci103c,30ea@2,1/storage@1 (scsa2usb0) online
Mar 29 15:49:15 opensolaris scsi: [ID 193665 kern.info] sd1 at scsa2usb0: target 0 lun 0
Mar 29 15:49:15 opensolaris genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] sd1 is /pci@0,0/pci103c,30ea@2,1/storage@1/disk@0,0
Mar 29 15:49:15 opensolaris genunix: [ID 408114 kern.info] /pci@0,0/pci103c,30ea@2,1/storage@1/disk@0,0 (sd1) online
Mar 29 15:49:23 opensolaris pcfs: [ID 130968 kern.info] NOTICE: pcfs: alternate FAT #1 (start LBA 117) corrupted at offset 0 on device (32.50):1

Space Movie

I just found out that this movie is available on DVD...
Last time I checked, don't recall when was that, I wasn't able to find it.
This one its a true classic, when I was a kid in the early 80's I must have watched it a million times or more on VHS.

Tony Palmer's Film Of The Space Movie (1980)
The Space Movie

Fucking autumn my ass!

I can't freaking believe this, the forecast for tomorrow predicts highs around 34 fucking degrees, I mean, c'mon we are in the freaking autumn!!!

Updates dujour

Bunch of updates for my beloved Tango, a reboot later, and so far, so good (as usual :) )

2009-03-28 14:02:25 status installed doc-base 0.8.16
2009-03-28 14:02:26 status installed man-db 2.5.2-2
2009-03-28 14:02:27 status installed ufw 0.23.3
2009-03-28 14:02:29 status installed libcups2 1.3.9-2ubuntu8
2009-03-28 14:02:29 status installed libcupsimage2 1.3.9-2ubuntu8
2009-03-28 14:02:29 status installed cups-common 1.3.9-2ubuntu8
2009-03-28 14:02:32 status installed cups 1.3.9-2ubuntu8
2009-03-28 14:02:32 status installed cups-client 1.3.9-2ubuntu8
2009-03-28 14:02:33 status installed cups-bsd 1.3.9-2ubuntu8
2009-03-28 14:02:33 status installed xulrunner-1.9 1.9.0.8+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
2009-03-28 14:02:33 status installed xulrunner-1.9-gnome-support 1.9.0.8+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
2009-03-28 14:02:33 status installed gnome-user-guide 2.24.0+svn20080922ubuntu2
2009-03-28 14:02:33 status installed libicu38 3.8.1-2ubuntu0.1
2009-03-28 14:02:33 status installed xserver-common 2:1.5.2-2ubuntu3.1
2009-03-28 14:02:33 status installed xserver-xorg-core 2:1.5.2-2ubuntu3.1
2009-03-28 14:02:33 status installed firefox-3.0-branding 3.0.8+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.2
2009-03-28 14:02:34 status installed firefox-3.0 3.0.8+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.2
2009-03-28 14:02:34 status installed firefox-3.0-gnome-support 3.0.8+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.2
2009-03-28 14:02:34 status installed firefox 3.0.8+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.2
2009-03-28 14:02:34 status installed firefox-gnome-support 3.0.8+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.2
2009-03-28 14:02:34 status installed libc6 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu9

Play Count (15)

And another turn of the wheel, I'm just listening to a lot of music it seems... Not a month has been gone by...

Another crappy weekend

This shit is getting way too far.
The fucking summer simply does not want to go.

(The screenshot has the new SMN "theme", but the same piece of shit weather)

Updates dujour

A little bit of Ubuntu Update glory... No problems after installing.

2009-03-24 13:19:29 status installed man-db 2.5.2-2
2009-03-24 13:19:30 status installed libgs8 8.63.dfsg.1-0ubuntu6.3
2009-03-24 13:19:40 status installed ghostscript 8.63.dfsg.1-0ubuntu6.3
2009-03-24 13:19:40 status installed ghostscript-x 8.63.dfsg.1-0ubuntu6.3
2009-03-24 13:19:40 status installed liblcms1 1.16-10ubuntu0.2
2009-03-24 13:19:40 status installed libc6 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu9

Cycle Count Glory

A landmark on my "Apple experience"... The new battery for Balrog, life is good, and even better with a 0 cycle count on a battery :)

A new face for my grief

The Weather Forecast service here in Argentina has a revamped website... It has been impossible to access it today (not that on a non design release day it is any easier...)

Direct link to an uncompressed pic on Image Shack

The current Thor desktop

Haven't post a pic of my Quicksilver beauty in a while new.
This one, with a bit of a help from the folks at Canonical :)

Link to an uncompressed pic on Image Shack

Autumn? A Saigon autumn that is

  

A little about bloat

   

Where the hell is the autumn????

Here we go again...

A week ago it was, when the hell will this summer end, now, where the fuck is the god damn autumn?

First Annual HDD Cleansing Day

Hooked up my 2 external drives, and for the love of God, I'll clean the shit out of my HDDs.

The thing is try to keep everything as tidy as this desktop here, 24x7, 365 days a year.

Link to an uncompressed pic on Image Shack

Font problems? Call Hictio!

Obviously my my font smoothing strategy needs a little bit of polishing...
Specially with the bold fonts on disclaimers and legal babble.

SU Mystery Theater (6)

Update time for my Apple Mother Ship!
Not much, the latest iTunes and a new Java, everything seems to be just fine after the update.

The only "strange" thing is that the size of the "iTunes Library" file has reduced from the 10.4 MB to 1.4 MB... But the info (Play Counts, Ratings, Lyrics) seems to be fine.

The other features the update offer (I mean the ones on the iTunes itself), I simply couldn't care less.

Updates dujour

With Balrog around, I practically haven't touched Tango this week.
So I boot it up, and installed a bunch of available updates. As usual, no problems after the installation.

2009-03-20 00:19:33 status installed man-db 2.5.2-2
2009-03-20 00:19:34 status installed libglib2.0-0 2.18.2-0ubuntu2.1
2009-03-20 00:19:35 status installed libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 0.10.21-3ubuntu0.1
2009-03-20 00:19:35 status installed gstreamer0.10-alsa 0.10.21-3ubuntu0.1
2009-03-20 00:19:35 status installed gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs 0.10.21-3ubuntu0.1
2009-03-20 00:19:35 status installed gstreamer0.10-plugins-base 0.10.21-3ubuntu0.1
2009-03-20 00:19:35 status installed gstreamer0.10-plugins-base-apps 0.10.21-3ubuntu0.1
2009-03-20 00:19:36 status installed gstreamer0.10-plugins-good 0.10.10.4-1ubuntu1.1
2009-03-20 00:19:36 status installed gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio 0.10.10.4-1ubuntu1.1
2009-03-20 00:19:36 status installed gstreamer0.10-x 0.10.21-3ubuntu0.1
2009-03-20 00:19:36 status installed libavutil49 3:0.svn20080206-12ubuntu3.1
2009-03-20 00:19:37 status installed libavformat52 3:0.svn20080206-12ubuntu3.1
2009-03-20 00:19:37 status installed libglib2.0-data 2.18.2-0ubuntu2.1
2009-03-20 00:19:37 status installed libjasper1 1.900.1-5ubuntu0.1
2009-03-20 00:19:37 status installed libnss3-1d 3.12.0.3-0ubuntu5.8.10.1
2009-03-20 00:19:37 status installed libpostproc51 3:0.svn20080206-12ubuntu3.1
2009-03-20 00:19:37 status installed libswscale0 3:0.svn20080206-12ubuntu3.1
2009-03-20 00:19:38 status installed libc6 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu9

Music right now (28)

Circle Jerks - Golden Shower of Hits - When the shit hits the fan

In a sluggish economy
Inflation, recession
Hits the land of the free
Standing in unemployment lines
Blame the government for hard time

We just get by
However we can
We all gotta duck
When the shit hits the fan

10 kids in a cadillac
Stand in lines for welfare checks
Let's all leach off the state
Gee!the money's really great!

Soup lines
Free loaves of bread
5 lb blocks of cheese
Bags of groceries
Social security
Has run out on you and me
We do whatever we can
Gotta duck when the shit hits the fan

Balrog: Ubuntu screenshots

Some screenshots I took when installed Ubuntu on Balrog


The first boot onto the Gnome desktop...
Things were a mess, but the solution was pretty simple, keep the box clock on syncd with a proper NTPD server!!!

Uncompressed copy on Image Shack

Enabling the wireless adapter, AKA AirPort :p
Simple as a click, no problem whatsoever connecting to any Access Point.

Uncompressed copy on Image Shack

And the last one, just about to install Os X Tiger on it.
Ubuntu is great, but, for the moment, I'd stick with Tiger on it.

Uncompressed copy on Image Shack

Autumn is around the corner

And yet, the temperatures are still with summer highs...
Saturday's nosedive its slowly fading, looks like its going to be a crappy weekend.

(Apple) Love is all around

Balrog seems to be happy with its new family...
It came with a couple of really beaten down batteries, really beaten, about 45 minutes of life span, tops.
Anyway, I was checking the serial on those today, and for the nails of the cross of Jeebus, one of the batteries falls under the Exchange Program umbrella.

Un Fucking Believable

Called a local Apple reseller, went to the place, filled a form, and, it looks like on Thursday I'll have a spanking new battery for Balrog.

Compiling Oracle9i support on PHP 5.1.2

Today had to re-compile the PHP from a server on which the Oracle was rolled back a notch, from 10 to 9 (the reason for this should remain behind a curtain, the thicker and the fucking heavier, the better ;) )

Never used Oracle9 before, nor compiled PHP for it, so it was a day of first times.
Tried to use the same configure settings that I used to compile PHP (the same version) but when the server had Oracle10:

./configure \
--prefix=/usr/local/php-5.1.2 \
--with-config-file-path=/usr/local/php-5.1.2/config/php.ini \
--with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache_2.0.55/bin/apxs \
--with-oci8=$ORACLE_HOME \
--enable-sigchild \
--with-openssl \
--with-zlib \
--enable-ftp \
--with-gd \
--with-jpeg-dir \
--enable-gd-native-ttf \
--with-png \
--with-ldap \
--enable-mbstring \
--enable-mbregex \
--with-mysql \
--enable-sockets \
--with-pear \
--with-mcrypt \
--with-openssl \
--enable-soap

The './configure' went Ok, but it belched with this error during the make:

ext/oci8/.libs/oci8.o(.text+0x22f5): In function `php_oci_do_connect_ex':
/home/dba_ultrasmooth_operator/downloads/http/php-5.1.2/ext/oci8/oci8.c:1346: undefined reference to `OCIPing'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [sapi/cli/php] Error 1

Off to Google I went for help., but found nothing, with the same error message, so I expanded a bit the search.
Apparently, one solution it is to link some of Oracle libraries from the version 9, and make a link that points from the version 8, to the actual version 9 library.
Tested that, but it didn't work either.

What I did in the end, and it worked A Ok, was to edit the 'oci8.c', the line that belched, comment it:

//    OCI_G(errcode) = PHP_OCI_CALL(OCIPing, (connection->svc, OCI_G(err), OCI_DEFAULT));

So it doesn't perform that check during the make stage.

After that, everything went Ok.

Balrog: Some Ubuntu info (1)

Some information from the Ubuntu install on Balrog.

esteban@balrog:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/hda
[sudo] password for esteban: 
/dev/hda
        #                    type name                  length   base      ( size )  system
/dev/hda1     Apple_partition_map Apple                     63 @ 1         ( 31.5k)  Partition map
/dev/hda2         Apple_Bootstrap untitled                1954 @ 64        (977.0k)  NewWorld bootblock
/dev/hda3         Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled           229910157 @ 2018      (109.6G)  Linux native
/dev/hda4         Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap                 4529473 @ 229912175 (  2.2G)  Linux swap

Block size=512, Number of Blocks=234441648
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0

esteban@balrog:~$ uname -a
Linux balrog 2.6.25-2-powerpc #1 Tue Sep 30 14:49:00 UTC 2008 ppc GNU/Linux

esteban@balrog:~$ df -ah
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3             108G  2.1G  101G   2% /
tmpfs                 378M     0  378M   0% /lib/init/rw
/proc                    0     0     0   -  /proc
sysfs                    0     0     0   -  /sys
varrun                378M  104K  378M   1% /var/run
varlock               378M     0  378M   0% /var/lock
udev                  378M  2.8M  375M   1% /dev
tmpfs                 378M  104K  378M   1% /dev/shm
devpts                   0     0     0   -  /dev/pts
fusectl                  0     0     0   -  /sys/fs/fuse/connections
securityfs               0     0     0   -  /sys/kernel/security
binfmt_misc              0     0     0   -  /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
gvfs-fuse-daemon         0     0     0   -  /home/esteban/.gvfs

esteban@balrog:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo 
processor : 0
cpu  : 7447A, altivec supported
clock  : 1499.999000MHz
revision : 0.2 (pvr 8003 0102)
bogomips : 73.47
timebase : 18432000
platform : PowerMac
machine  : PowerBook6,8
motherboard : PowerBook6,8 MacRISC3 Power Macintosh 
detected as : 287 (PowerBook G4 12")
pmac flags : 0000001a
L2 cache : 512K unified
pmac-generation : NewWorld

Balrog, a new member of the family

Got a "new" toy yesterday.

A little 12" PowerBook beauty, yes, PPC... Yes.
It seems to be working pretty, prrettty good.
Maxxed up the builtin 256 MB RAM with another 512 MB stick I have from God knows what upgrade I did (the PB came with 2 256 MB sticks).

The thing has a 1.5 GHz CPU and a 120 GB HDD, really decent hardware.

direct link to an uncompressed Image Shack picture of Balrog

Vacation planning (5)

I don't know, it's months into the future, and specially on a fucking year like this one, but, nevertheless, I know where I want to go on my vacation time this next year.

National Museum of the U.S. Air Force
Air Force Museum Foundation

An amazing Sunday

The temperature took a nose dive Saturday night, it was something really impressive.

Besides that, we had our change to Winter time, the TZ Data change once again, this time, we got back the hour we lost on October last year.

The days are getting shorter, the temperature starts to drop somehow, life is good.

Play Count (14)

And another notch! Less than a month this time...

Once again, this is important stuff.

Updates dujour

A new one for Tango, no problems whatsoever after the install.

2009-03-14 15:42:36 status installed man-db 2.5.2-2
2009-03-14 15:42:38 status installed dkms 2.0.20.4-0ubuntu2.1

Cold turkey

The motherfucker ISP I have it is going South fast, this year the thing has been horrendous... Early this morning it simply left me high and dry.

And the worst, there are no signs of the thing to get any better (that is I won;t have any internet access at home) until Tuesday, March 17th; when some tech guy has to come home to take a fucking look at the modem.

Fibertel I curse you fucking scumbag! May you shit scorpions and pee tarantulas the rest of your life, motherfucker!

Another Saigon weekend

The fucking summer simply doesn't want to die.

Here we go for another instance of a Saigon weather, right here on Bs. As....

Fucking depressing, to say the least, a humidity that clamps you to the floor, zero wind and a heat that rises and rises during the day. That will go on and on until, hopefully, it rains the fuck out of hell.

With some luck, a lot of luck really, this might be one of the last one, or at least, one the last that rises the temperature that much; after all, autumn is just around the corner.

Orbis Tertius high resolution

The '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' file from Orbis Tertius, configured last night to use the Samsung widescreen monitor:

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder57)  Mon Oct 27 14:37:20 PST 2008

# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
## This seems to be not doing anything, that is, not having any effect,
## disabled for the moment
#Section "Extensions"
#       Option          "RENDER"        "true"
#       Option          "DAMAGE"        "true"
#       Option          "Composite"     "Enable"
#EndSection
# EoF #

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Default Layout"
    Screen         "Default Screen" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Generic Keyboard" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "PS2 Mouse"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Generic Keyboard"
    Driver         "kbd"
    Option         "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "PS2 Mouse"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "CorePointer"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Samsung SyncMaster 920NW"
    VendorName     "Samsung"
    ModelName      "920NW"
    HorizSync       30-81
    VertRefresh     56-75
EndSection


Section "Device"
    Identifier     "NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400]"
    Driver         "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Default Screen"
    Device         "NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400]"
    Monitor        "Samsung SyncMaster 920NW"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
    Option         "NoLogo" "False"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       8
        Modes      "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1024x768" "800x600"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       16
        Modes      "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1024x768" "800x600"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1440x900" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       32
        Modes      "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1024x768" "800x600"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Another related post Ubuntu on high resolution, this was using the Hardy and the official Ubuntu supported NVIDIA drivers.

Updates dujour

Orbis Tertius edition.
Turned on OB, and installed updates. A lot of updates. Really, I mean a lot of updates.

It took some 40 minutes to gulch everything up, nevertheless, after rebooting, everything seems fine, even the unsupported NVIDIA driver I'm using on that box.

2009-03-13 01:13:12 status installed man-db 2.5.2-2
2009-03-13 01:13:17 status installed doc-base 0.8.16
2009-03-13 01:13:59 status installed hal 0.5.11-4ubuntu4
2009-03-13 01:14:40 status installed linux-libc-dev 2.6.27-11.27
2009-03-13 01:14:40 status installed libc6-dev 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu9
2009-03-13 01:14:43 status installed libc6-i686 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu9
2009-03-13 01:14:43 status installed libgomp1 4.3.2-1ubuntu12
2009-03-13 01:14:44 status installed cpp-4.3 4.3.2-1ubuntu12
2009-03-13 01:14:44 status installed gcc-4.3 4.3.2-1ubuntu12
2009-03-13 01:14:44 status installed libperl5.10 5.10.0-11.1ubuntu2.2
2009-03-13 01:14:44 status installed libgnutls26 2.4.1-1ubuntu0.2
2009-03-13 01:14:45 status installed libcups2 1.3.9-2ubuntu7
2009-03-13 01:14:45 status installed libpng12-0 1.2.27-1ubuntu0.1
2009-03-13 01:14:46 status installed libcupsimage2 1.3.9-2ubuntu7
2009-03-13 01:14:46 status installed libgs8 8.63.dfsg.1-0ubuntu6.2
2009-03-13 01:14:56 status installed ghostscript 8.63.dfsg.1-0ubuntu6.2
2009-03-13 01:14:57 status installed busybox-initramfs 1:1.10.2-1ubuntu7
2009-03-13 01:15:16 status installed libssl0.9.8 0.9.8g-10.1ubuntu2.1
2009-03-13 01:15:16 status installed openssl 0.9.8g-10.1ubuntu2.1
2009-03-13 01:16:33 status installed ca-certificates 20080514-0ubuntu1.1
2009-03-13 01:16:33 status installed xkb-data 1.3-2ubuntu4.4
2009-03-13 01:16:34 status installed initramfs-tools 0.92bubuntu16
2009-03-13 01:17:03 status installed console-setup 1.25ubuntu4
2009-03-13 01:17:03 status installed libldap-2.4-2 2.4.11-0ubuntu6.1
2009-03-13 01:17:04 status installed libsqlite3-0 3.5.9-3ubuntu1
2009-03-13 01:17:05 status installed vim-common 1:7.1.314-3ubuntu3.1
2009-03-13 01:17:15 status installed vim-tiny 1:7.1.314-3ubuntu3.1
2009-03-13 01:17:15 status installed libisc44 1:9.5.0.dfsg.P2-1ubuntu3.1
2009-03-13 01:17:15 status installed libdns43 1:9.5.0.dfsg.P2-1ubuntu3.1
2009-03-13 01:17:16 status installed libisccc40 1:9.5.0.dfsg.P2-1ubuntu3.1
2009-03-13 01:17:16 status installed libisccfg40 1:9.5.0.dfsg.P2-1ubuntu3.1
2009-03-13 01:17:17 status installed libbind9-40 1:9.5.0.dfsg.P2-1ubuntu3.1
2009-03-13 01:17:17 status installed liblwres40 1:9.5.0.dfsg.P2-1ubuntu3.1
2009-03-13 01:17:17 status installed bind9-host 1:9.5.0.dfsg.P2-1ubuntu3.1
2009-03-13 01:17:18 status installed dnsutils 1:9.5.0.dfsg.P2-1ubuntu3.1
2009-03-13 01:17:18 status installed libx11-data 2:1.1.5-2ubuntu1.1
2009-03-13 01:17:19 status installed libx11-6 2:1.1.5-2ubuntu1.1
2009-03-13 01:17:21 status installed ppp 2.4.4rel-10ubuntu2.8.10.1
2009-03-13 01:17:37 status installed ufw 0.23.3
2009-03-13 01:17:58 status installed acpi-support 0.114-0intrepid2
2009-03-13 01:17:59 status installed alsa-utils 1.0.17-0ubuntu3
2009-03-13 01:17:59 status installed libck-connector0 0.2.10-1ubuntu10
2009-03-13 01:18:00 status installed consolekit 0.2.10-1ubuntu10
2009-03-13 01:18:00 status installed libavahi-common-data 0.6.23-2ubuntu2.1
2009-03-13 01:18:00 status installed libavahi-common3 0.6.23-2ubuntu2.1
2009-03-13 01:18:01 status installed libavahi-client3 0.6.23-2ubuntu2.1
2009-03-13 01:18:01 status installed libavahi-compat-libdnssd1 0.6.23-2ubuntu2.1
2009-03-13 01:18:01 status installed libpoppler3 0.8.7-1ubuntu0.1
2009-03-13 01:18:02 status installed poppler-utils 0.8.7-1ubuntu0.1
2009-03-13 01:18:02 status installed cups-common 1.3.9-2ubuntu7
2009-03-13 01:18:02 status installed cups-client 1.3.9-2ubuntu7
2009-03-13 01:18:16 status installed cups-bsd 1.3.9-2ubuntu7
2009-03-13 01:18:16 status installed libcurl3 7.18.2-1ubuntu4.3
2009-03-13 01:18:16 status installed curl 7.18.2-1ubuntu4.3
2009-03-13 01:18:16 status installed libgtkhtml-editor-common 1:3.24.1.1-0ubuntu1
2009-03-13 01:18:17 status installed libedataserver1.2-11 2.24.3-0ubuntu1
2009-03-13 01:18:17 status installed libcamel1.2-14 2.24.3-0ubuntu1
2009-03-13 01:18:17 status installed libebackend1.2-0 2.24.3-0ubuntu1
2009-03-13 01:18:18 status installed libebook1.2-9 2.24.3-0ubuntu1
2009-03-13 01:18:18 status installed libecal1.2-7 2.24.3-0ubuntu1
2009-03-13 01:18:18 status installed libedata-book1.2-2 2.24.3-0ubuntu1
2009-03-13 01:18:19 status installed libedata-cal1.2-6 2.24.3-0ubuntu1
2009-03-13 01:18:19 status installed libegroupwise1.2-13 2.24.3-0ubuntu1
2009-03-13 01:18:19 status installed libgdata1.2-1 2.24.3-0ubuntu1
2009-03-13 01:18:20 status installed libgdata-google1.2-1 2.24.3-0ubuntu1
2009-03-13 01:18:20 status installed evolution-data-server-common 2.24.3-0ubuntu1
2009-03-13 01:18:20 status installed evolution-data-server 2.24.3-0ubuntu1
2009-03-13 01:18:20 status installed libcairo2 1.8.0-0ubuntu1.1
2009-03-13 01:18:21 status installed libedataserverui1.2-8 2.24.3-0ubuntu1
2009-03-13 01:18:21 status installed libexchange-storage1.2-3 2.24.3-0ubuntu1
2009-03-13 01:18:21 status installed libgnomecanvas2-common 2.20.1.1-1ubuntu3
2009-03-13 01:18:21 status installed libgnomecanvas2-0 2.20.1.1-1ubuntu3
2009-03-13 01:18:22 status installed libgtkhtml3.14-19 1:3.24.1.1-0ubuntu1
2009-03-13 01:18:22 status installed libgtkhtml-editor0 1:3.24.1.1-0ubuntu1
2009-03-13 01:18:23 status installed evolution-common 2.24.3-0ubuntu1
2009-03-13 01:19:00 status installed evolution 2.24.3-0ubuntu1
2009-03-13 01:19:02 status installed evolution-plugins 2.24.3-0ubuntu1
2009-03-13 01:19:09 status installed xulrunner-1.9 1.9.0.7+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
2009-03-13 01:19:10 status installed gedit-common 2.24.2-0ubuntu1
2009-03-13 01:19:55 status installed gedit 2.24.2-0ubuntu1
2009-03-13 01:19:55 status installed ghostscript-x 8.63.dfsg.1-0ubuntu6.2
2009-03-13 01:20:32 status installed gnome-power-manager 2.24.0-0ubuntu8.2
2009-03-13 01:20:34 status installed libavahi-glib1 0.6.23-2ubuntu2.1
2009-03-13 01:20:35 status installed libgvfscommon0 1.0.2-0ubuntu2
2009-03-13 01:20:35 status installed libwbclient0 2:3.2.3-1ubuntu3.4
2009-03-13 01:20:35 status installed libsmbclient 2:3.2.3-1ubuntu3.4
2009-03-13 01:20:36 status installed gvfs 1.0.2-0ubuntu2
2009-03-13 01:20:36 status installed gvfs-backends 1.0.2-0ubuntu2
2009-03-13 01:20:36 status installed hal-info 20090128-0ubuntu1~intrepid2
2009-03-13 01:20:37 status installed libcurl3-gnutls 7.18.2-1ubuntu4.3
2009-03-13 01:20:37 status installed libgadu3 1:1.8.0+r592-1ubuntu0.1
2009-03-13 01:20:37 status installed liblcms1 1.16-10ubuntu0.1
2009-03-13 01:20:38 status installed libnautilus-extension1 1:2.24.1-0ubuntu2
2009-03-13 01:20:52 status installed libpam-ck-connector 0.2.10-1ubuntu10
2009-03-13 01:20:52 status installed libpoppler-glib3 0.8.7-1ubuntu0.1
2009-03-13 01:20:53 status installed libpulse0 0.9.10-2ubuntu9.3
2009-03-13 01:20:53 status installed libpulsecore5 0.9.10-2ubuntu9.3
2009-03-13 01:20:53 status installed libpurple-bin 1:2.5.2-0ubuntu1.1
2009-03-13 01:20:54 status installed pidgin-data 1:2.5.2-0ubuntu1.1
2009-03-13 01:20:54 status installed libshout3 2.2.2-4ubuntu1
2009-03-13 01:20:54 status installed libv4l-0 0.5.7-1~intrepid1
2009-03-13 01:20:55 status installed linux-headers-2.6.27-11 2.6.27-11.27
2009-03-13 01:20:55 status installed linux-headers-2.6.27-11-generic 2.6.27-11.27
2009-03-13 01:20:55 status installed linux-headers-generic 2.6.27.11.14
2009-03-13 01:20:55 status installed linux-source-2.6.27 2.6.27-11.27
2009-03-13 01:21:51 status installed nautilus-data 1:2.24.1-0ubuntu2
2009-03-13 01:21:52 status installed nautilus 1:2.24.1-0ubuntu2
2009-03-13 01:21:53 status installed ntpdate 1:4.2.4p4+dfsg-6ubuntu2.2
2009-03-13 01:21:55 status installed pulseaudio 0.9.10-2ubuntu9.3
2009-03-13 01:21:55 status installed pulseaudio-esound-compat 0.9.10-2ubuntu9.3
2009-03-13 01:22:08 status installed samba-common 2:3.2.3-1ubuntu3.4
2009-03-13 01:22:08 status installed smbclient 2:3.2.3-1ubuntu3.4
2009-03-13 01:22:09 status installed sudo 1.6.9p17-1ubuntu2.1
2009-03-13 01:22:09 status installed xserver-xorg-video-radeon 1:6.9.0+git20081003.f9826a56-0ubuntu2.1
2009-03-13 01:22:09 status installed xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.9.0+git20081003.f9826a56-0ubuntu2.1
2009-03-13 01:22:09 status installed xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.4.1-1ubuntu10.3
2009-03-13 01:22:13 status installed xterm 235-1ubuntu1.1
2009-03-13 01:22:56 status installed gnome-settings-daemon 2.24.0-0ubuntu3.3
2009-03-13 01:22:58 status installed perl-modules 5.10.0-11.1ubuntu2.2
2009-03-13 01:22:58 status installed language-pack-en 1:8.10+20081107
2009-03-13 01:23:19 status installed cups 1.3.9-2ubuntu7
2009-03-13 01:23:19 status installed firefox-3.0-branding 3.0.7+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
2009-03-13 01:23:20 status installed perl 5.10.0-11.1ubuntu2.2
2009-03-13 01:23:32 status installed foomatic-filters 4.0.0-0ubuntu3
2009-03-13 01:24:09 status installed language-pack-en-base 1:8.10+20081107
2009-03-13 01:24:11 status installed firefox-3.0 3.0.7+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
2009-03-13 01:24:11 status installed firefox 3.0.7+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
2009-03-13 01:24:11 status installed libpurple0 1:2.5.2-0ubuntu1.1
2009-03-13 01:24:41 status installed pidgin 1:2.5.2-0ubuntu1.1
2009-03-13 01:24:41 status installed ubufox 0.6-0ubuntu1.8.10.1
2009-03-13 01:24:46 status installed libc6 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu9
2009-03-13 01:26:40 status installed initramfs-tools 0.92bubuntu16

The Hotmail is ocupado

All our operators are busy, please hang up, and type again :p

Updates dujour

No problems so far, no need for reboot after installing these.

2009-03-12 03:11:46 status installed man-db 2.5.2-2
2009-03-12 03:11:47 status installed libpurple-bin 1:2.5.2-0ubuntu1.1
2009-03-12 03:11:47 status installed pidgin-data 1:2.5.2-0ubuntu1.1
2009-03-12 03:11:47 status installed libpurple0 1:2.5.2-0ubuntu1.1
2009-03-12 03:11:51 status installed pidgin 1:2.5.2-0ubuntu1.1
2009-03-12 03:11:54 status installed libc6 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu9

Updates dujour

A tiny little update, no problems after the install.

2009-03-11 03:23:38 status installed man-db 2.5.2-2
2009-03-11 03:23:41 status installed dash 0.5.4-9ubuntu1.1

The current Ubuntu desktop

Another one... Back to basics, I can't be too far from my beloved Intrepid goat wallpaper :p

A link to an uncompressed copy on Image Shack.

Installing Zabbix on RHEL 5

New server, new setup, a lot of work, what's the problem?

First of all, had to install these two, to fulfill dependencies

server$ rpm -q net-snmp net-snmp-devel
net-snmp-5.3.2.2-5.el5
net-snmp-devel-5.3.2.2-5.el5

The second RPM package its specially important, if not installed, you'll get an error like this upon running the './configure'

configure: error: Invalid NET-SNMP directory - unable to find net-snmp-config

After those are installed, all there is left to is executing the configure script:

./configure --enable-server --enable-agent --with-mysql --with-net-snmp

To setup the webfront, in order to finish the instal, create a directory, for instance called 'zabbix' somewhere on your Apache web accessible directories, and then, copy everything that its in the 'zabbix-1.6.2/frontends/php/*' directory to the new you have just created. On my case I something like this:

cd /opt/www_ssl/zabbix/
sudo cp -r -v ~/downloads/zabbix-1.6.2/frontends/php/* ./

After that you can access the webfront thru 'https://yoursite/zabbix/' to wrap the whole thing up.
It is really, really advisable to serve your Zabbix content form an SSL encrypted page, for instance, during the last steps of the configuration thru the webfront you'll be asked for the username/ password to the Data Base, besides that, you'll have to login to the page every time you access it, so there you have another instance that you should avoid for plain text login information.

The only problem I had (see the picture) was during the final steps of the basic configuration, I had to increase the value of one of the PHP environment variables, no big deal.

A Server install (2)

The continuing saga!
Did another install on Odin, just to see how much HDD space a full blown Ubuntu Server install might suck up.
It doesn't use much, really, about 1.2 GB totally.

A bit of Perl (2)

A tiny Perl script to remove installed modules, specially handy for those installed via MCPAN.

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w 

use ExtUtils::Packlist; 
use ExtUtils::Installed; 

$ARGV[0] or die "Usage: $0 Module::Name\n"; 

my $mod = $ARGV[0]; 

my $inst = ExtUtils::Installed->new(); 

    foreach my $item (sort($inst->files($mod))) { 
             print "removing $item\n"; 
             unlink $item; 
          } 

     my $packfile = $inst->packlist($mod)->packlist_file(); 
          print "removing $packfile\n"; 
          unlink $packfile; 


# EoF #

Media Convert, keeps the family united

Found this one yesterday, while trying to see a family video they sent me, of course, created, or at least, edited with Windows software.
VLC belched while opening, so I was about to install Flip4Mac, but, for what I read it wouldn't work either.
Googling a bit found this site, that will convert any video to a any format, for free, there must be a size limit I'm sure (not to mention the privacy concerns), but for the need I was, it was excellent.

Media Convert

A Server install

Installed Ubuntu Server (8.10) on my beloved, and forgotten, Odin.
Making a "minimal install" took some 30 mins, and it uses less than 600 MB of the HDD; of course, it does not include Emacs! :p

The first thing after the install, get the high resolution console working!.
The default fugly resolution/font setup kills babies if you use it.

Dies Irae

Links to Image Shack's uncompressed copies: 1 2

SU Mystery Theater (6)

Update time for my beloved Trantor.
A bunch of updates, since I haven't used it till I got back from my vacations.

Updates dujour

Updates just installed on Tango... A reboot later, and everything seems fine.

2009-03-06 02:58:19 status installed doc-base 0.8.16
2009-03-06 02:58:20 status installed xulrunner-1.9 1.9.0.7+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
2009-03-06 02:58:20 status installed xulrunner-1.9-gnome-support 1.9.0.7+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
2009-03-06 02:58:20 status installed libpng12-0 1.2.27-1ubuntu0.1
2009-03-06 02:58:20 status installed firefox-3.0-branding 3.0.7+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
2009-03-06 02:58:20 status installed firefox-3.0 3.0.7+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
2009-03-06 02:58:20 status installed firefox-3.0-gnome-support 3.0.7+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
2009-03-06 02:58:20 status installed firefox 3.0.7+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
2009-03-06 02:58:20 status installed firefox-gnome-support 3.0.7+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
2009-03-06 02:58:21 status installed libc6 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu9

A bit of Perl (1)

The command to list all the installed modules on a box, 'instmodsh'.
After typing that it'll open a sub shell, in there, type 'l', the L word, to get a list of the installed Perl modules.

To exit the program, and get back to the regular shell, type 'q'.

$ instmodsh 
Available commands are:
   l            - List all installed modules
   m    - Select a module
   q            - Quit the program
cmd? l
Installed modules are:
   Archive::Tar
   Compress::Raw::Bzip2
   Compress::Raw::Zlib
   Compress::Zlib
   DBD::Oracle
   Data::ShowTable
   IO::Compress::Base
   IO::Compress::Bzip2
   IO::Compress::Zlib
   IO::Zlib
   MIME::Lite
   Net::SMPP
   Net::Telnet
   Perl
   Proc::ProcessTable
cmd? q

Updates dujour

Installed these today, as usal, so far, knock on wood, no problems after a reboot...

2009-03-04 17:00:15 status installed man-db 2.5.2-2
2009-03-04 17:00:16 status installed libcurl3 7.18.2-1ubuntu4.3
2009-03-04 17:00:16 status installed curl 7.18.2-1ubuntu4.3
2009-03-04 17:00:17 status installed libcurl3-gnutls 7.18.2-1ubuntu4.3
2009-03-04 17:00:17 status installed libnm-util0 0.7~~svn20081018t105859-0ubuntu1.8.10.2
2009-03-04 17:00:17 status installed libnm-glib0 0.7~~svn20081018t105859-0ubuntu1.8.10.2
2009-03-04 17:00:17 status installed network-manager 0.7~~svn20081018t105859-0ubuntu1.8.10.2
2009-03-04 17:00:17 status installed network-manager-gnome 0.7~~svn20081020t000444-0ubuntu1.8.10.2
2009-03-04 17:00:17 status installed libc6 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu9

When it pours

And now, it rains, and it doesn't stop... At least, the temperature took a dive, well, a dive... a dive considering that we are in the summer.

There is a humidity that cuts and blends you to the ground, but, for at leas a couple of days, the highs won't reach 30 degrees.

Finder's FTP integration

If there is a thing I really, really hate sometimes, well, actually, I guess, all of the time, is shell integration onto network programs.
I hated that on Windows, and on Finder, the whole thing seems a lot like on the Windows side of life.

It simply works like a piece of shit, the one on the screenshot zombied itself for about 45 mins until I had to relaunch Finder so it died properly.

Music right now (27)

Nick Cave - Henry's Dream - Loom of the Land




It was the dirty end of winter
Along the loom of the land
When I walked with sweet Sally
Hand upon hand

And the wind it bit bitter
For a boy of no means
With no shoes on his feet
And a knife in his jeans

Along the loom of the land
The mission bells peeled
From the tower at Saint Mary's
Down to Reprobate Fields

And I saw that the world
Was all blessed and bright
And Sally breathed softly
In the majestic night

O baby please don't cry
And try to keep
Your little hand upon my shoulder
Now go to sleep

The elms and the poplars
Were turning their backs
Past the rumbling station
We followed the tracks

We found an untrodden path
And followed it down
The moon in the sky
Like a dislodged crown

My hands they burned
In the folds of her coat
Breathing milky white air
From deep in her throat

O baby please don't cry
And try to keep
Your little head upon my shoulder
Now go to sleep

I told Sally in whispers
I'll never bring you harm
Her breast it was small
And warm in my palm

I told her the moon
Was a magical thing
That it shone gold in winter
And silver in spring

And we walked and walked
Across the endless sands
Just me and my Sally
Along the loom of the land

O baby please don't cry
And try to keep
Your little head upon my shoulder
Now go to sleep

The current Ubuntu desktop

Ubuntu dark themes get another chance!

(Alternative ImageShack link to a hires screenshot)

Updates dujour

A little tiny update for today:

2009-03-02 18:22:11 status installed tzdata 2009b-0ubuntu0.8.10

Of course, after installing the update, everything is A Ok.

Double feature

- Voyage to the Planet of the Prehistoric Women

- Voyage to The Prehistoric Planet

Previous Recipients crud

This week I come up with a very handy feature of Mail.app, an obvious one, that it seems to be already posted ad infinitum, but I'll add it ad a place holder.

Mail.app keeps tabs of all the email addresses it has sent a message in any given time. To view a list of all of them, goto:

Window menu > Previous Recipients

Mine had whole bunch of email addresses, a lot of them really useless.