Life on the OutSide

What I have always wanted to do is to have one location for all my users to store there files. At the moment we have a Windows Home filesys...

Finally did it. Being running Solaris Express Community Edition SXCE (last release was 129) on my work desktop for a few years now and was w...

As you are aware with every official release of OpenSolaris, comes a full download of all the IPS packages (7GB), but what happens if you wa...

Autoinstaller: Past & Present I gave a talk at the LOSUG meeting on Autoinstaller in OpenSolaris 2009.06 and will talk about what is...

If you want to install OpenSolaris on to many computers then you will need to use Automated Installer (AI) which allows you to remotely ins...

The main reason I got the Sun Storage is to to combine our existing 2 home drives per user down to One (see last week ), so that we have acc...

I have just had a delivery of a Try and Buy Sun Storage 7110 Unified Storage System system. As you are aware this is Sun's new storage ...

I have had a lot of trouble recently getting Jumpstart to work with no PXE server with SXCE/Nevada. The last time I got it to work was with ...

One more topic on Sever2Go and Windows and then I will get back to OpenSolaris. WordPress is a a popular publishing platform with a focus o...

I know I said I would never blog about Windows, but this piece of software is so great, I just have to mention it. Server2Go is a Webserver...

This is just a follow up to my previous blog entry "Live Upgrade with ZFS root using SXCE (Nevada)" . I thought I would just do a ...

Couple of weeks ago I did a fresh install of "Solaris Express Community Edition snv_94" and selected ZFS root to see what it was l...