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Going to OSCON? Sun Microsystems is a sponsor, and has a large booth area, all dedicated to you. It is an unusual way of using open space. We welcome all visitors and encourage them to participate in our activities. There are presentations at almost any time, given by the makers of the open source products you use. And you can have a chance to chat with the very people who are shaping the open source world. The booth talks include presentations and live demos on MySQL, OpenJDK, Glassfish, OpenSolaris, JCP, mobile and embedded technologies, and more. The "more" part is up to you. Just drop by and ask for a demo … |
Jul
17
2008
Jul
16
2008
So… some colleagues have been experimenting with DTrace a bit, and I’ve been (for a while now) wanting to experiment with it.
The challenge now, instead of in the past, is that I’m setting up a Solaris based system - not getting one premade.
I chose OpenSolaris as I’d previously tried Solaris 10 and just sunk too much time trying to get updates and a development environment installed (another colleague could get the opposite to me going: he got devtools but no updates. at least mine was up to date and secure… but without a compiler).
So… OpenSolaris. It isn’t 100% open, there’s binary only drivers and such… but compared to previous Solaris, a whole lot better. Now, if only it was GPL licensed so we could have cross-pollination with Linux.
I grabbed the 2008.05 ISO as soon (in fact, slightly before) it was released and installed it in VirtualBox.
The installation was shiny …
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Jul
05
2008
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Over the last months I have seen some impressive presentations about Open Solaris, and I wanted to give it a try. The live CD provided with opensolaris 2008.05 is very easy to install, and so I set it up in a virtual machine. The environment looks familiar for a seasoned Linux user, and thus I decided to use it as a test bed for my MySQL Sandbox, which includes a test suite that lets you run a complete test with little effort. |
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Well, little effort for you, maybe, but not for the operating system. The test puts a lot of stress on the … |
Jun
23
2008
Are you deploying your JRuby-on-Rails applications on Solaris (or any variety of Unix) and not able to
connect to the database ?
I experienced it last week so thought of sharing the tip here.
Luckily it's really simple.
Here is the default generated "config/database.yml"
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development: adapter: mysql encoding: utf8 database: runner_development username: root password: socket: /tmp/mysql.sock |
The only required change is to add "host: 127.0.01" for the
required database configuration. The updated fragment is shown
below (with change highlighted):
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Jun
02
2008
De facto standards are the only ones that matter.
That's a bit of a truism in the technology world - well intentioned standards bodies and departments of justice can do their best, but at the end of the day, volume deployment is the only setter of standards. Ubiquity trumps policy, just about every time.
To that point, I was on a panel recently, discussing the impact of technology on the world's more rapidly developing economies (what's often referred to as "BRICA," or Brazil, Russia, India, China and Africa).
One of the speakers referenced an interesting shift in the traditional media industry: western companies were turning their attention toward the developing world. GDP growth wasn't drawing their attention - as much as demographics. Teenagers and those in their early twenties represent the biggest media buyers in …
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May
30
2008
One year ago, we announced that we would open source the entire Solaris Cluster product suite. Today, we are delivering on that promise six months ahead of schedule by releasing over two million lines of source code for the Solaris Cluster framework!
Read the official press release and listen to a podcast with Meenakshi Kaul-Basu, Director of Availability Products at Sun.
This third, and final, source code release follows the initial open sourcing of the Solaris Cluster agents in June, 2007 and Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition in December, 2007. As with the previous releases, the …
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May
29
2008
As of today, the third, final and largest code release for Open High Availability Cluster has been made available. This now means that all of the Open HA Cluster code is available as free software. This will allow developers and admins to access and build complete HA solutions built on source code from the OpenSolaris project.
Right before the launch I grabbed some time with Meenakshi
Kaul-Basu, the engineering director at Sun responsible for
Availability products, and whose group the Open HA Cluster falls
under. Take a listen to Meenakshi's explanation of the
event and her insight:
My interview with Meenakshi (9:29) …
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May
27
2008
As some of you would have recently noticed, I’ve started playing around (I can’t really say using, seeing that its still not a daily basis kind of thing for me yet) with OpenSolaris and NetBeans. Now, Sun is encouraging students to use, review, and blog about these two great products - check out the student reviews contests.
If you’ve not tried OpenSolaris 2008.05, you should probably give it a twirl. Sure, I’ve not installed it on bare metal hardware yet (I’ve been travelling so much, I’m not anywhere near machines), but it works fine inside VirtualBox. NetBeans is great if you’re writing Java, Ruby, PHP, and are connecting to a database - Connector/J for MySQL …
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May
16
2008
It is that time of the year when many PostgreSQL fans gather in
Ottawa, Canada for PGCon 2008 next week. This will be my first
visit to PGCon in Ottawa. Earlier this year I had presented two
sessions "PostgreSQL and Benchmarks" and "Best Practices of
PostgreSQL on Solaris" at PostgreSQL Conference 2008 East in
Maryland. Thanks to that visit, this time I might recognize many
people by face this time around.
Sun is a Gold Sponsor at PGCon 2008. There will be quite a bit of presence from Sun in PGCon. Josh, Max, Robert, Magne, Zdenek, Jim, Mayuresh et all will be present out there.
Josh Berkus is doing a tutorial on "GUCs: A Three Hour Tour" on …
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May
14
2008
As promised, after individual presentations at
last week's CommunityOne I brought together the community
leaders of three of the top GNU/Linux distros (Zonker
Brockmeier, OpenSUSE; Jono Bacon, Ubuntu; Karsten Wade, Fedora), threw in Glynn Foster of
OpenSolaris and moderated a no-holds-barred panel. (It took
them three hours to clean up the blood afterwards!!)
Although the panel itself wasn't recorded, immediately after it concluded, the five of us headed to the make-shift podcast studio we had set up at the event …
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