After disappearing from the Blogsphere for over a year, I thought it would be fitting to actually write something that is work-related. I even created a new category in my bloglist for it. So here goes... I just received my brand new Toshiba Tecra M10 laptop. My plan is to keep Windows Vista on one ...

This article will show how to use Apache's mod_cache and mod_disk_cache to cache dynamic content from a web application, reducing load on the application and improving response time.  For the purposes of illustration, Tomcat will host the web application, and the requests to be cached are the e...

The 2009 OpenSolaris Governing Board elections are well underway now, so check it out if you are interested. I have been nominated for another term -- and I appreciate that nomination deeply -- but I have decided to not run in this election. It`s time to move on from the governance project. I could ...

When you create a large project you would most likely want arrange your code into logical parts and create various libraries containing logical units of code. In the "good old days" this would normally be an archive of object files created by using ar . ex: trond@opensolaris> ar -r myarchive.a fo...

Sun Microsystems oferă utilizatorilor posibilitatea de a testa ultima versiune de OpenSolaris pe o maşină fizică cu control de la distanţă prin intermediul unui laborator vitual [1]. După înregistrarea (gratuită) la Sun Developers Network aveţi la dispoziţie timp de o oră un sistem într...

Drizzle is certainly in the wind these days. I hear people talking about it almost every day (guess I got geeky friends ;-)), so I decided I should write a small blog on how easy it is to build Drizzle on my pet; OpenSolaris. To ensure that I don't miss a step in this guide, I decided to install a f...

Hi all! Today I'll try to show you guys how to create a zone in OpenSolaris and install a glassfish application server on the top of it. First of all, you need a native installation of Solaris10/OpenSololaris or a virtual machine with one of these installed. Here you can find how to set up a vm with...

Today we released the latest OpenSolaris development build, number 106 (106a is used in the labeling of the various ISO images since it took a couple of spins to get it right).  As usual, see the announcement email for links and so on.  Although I note that we neglected to mention the avai...

Dear Sun, I feel like we have trust issues.  Everytime I think we start to be good, and do good things… you go and do something to turn a good thing bad.  Let’s take this latest case of your “Free CD” button at the top of the OpenSolaris.org homepage.  I know you meant wel...

As I was getting my hair cut the other night, the stylist asked if I had any New Year's resolutions.  Only one: to work less than last year.  Now, if you judge by my output to this blog over the past year, you'd say I was already slacking pretty well: 15 posts, most of which categorize as ...