Monthly Archives: September 2009

USB to Serial for Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Alright, so we have updated to Snow Leopard, now back to work. As a Solaris techie, I often need to access a servers serial console. Especially when troubleshooting a server I want to able to connect a serial cable from … Continue reading

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Snow Leopard Upgrade Update

Not this is not a misspellings, it is the harsh truth. I am somewhat amazed Apple have put out an update for Snow Leopard less than three weeks after the launch of the new operating system. Continue reading

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Privium Lounge

One of the bonuses of frequent travelling is access to airport lounges. Obviously after a while it gets as boring as sitting at the local airport coffee shop, but still for any outsider it might be interesting to know what is going on in these lounges. In the next couple of weeks I will give my humble opinion on the lounges I access weekly. As I mostly fly from Bristol and Birmingham I can already tell you nothing else than that the lounges at both Airports are pretty horrible and utterly boring. So let me start of with a rather more exciting lounge, the Privium Lounge at Amsterdam Airport. Continue reading

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Solaris Zones Reporting script

One of the things I always bump into is that I want to display which Solaris zone is running on which Solaris server. Now from your global zone a “zoneadm list” will do the trick, but what about the other way around. I am in a Solaris zone and want to see on what physical server I am running this zone. When you have 10 zones installed it may be just fine, but when you are going towards 100 or maybe even more, it may be good to do some administration around it. There may be some obvious reasons for this why you cannot display this from your zone locally, but then again, sometimes it may be useful :-) . The following script should do the trick really. Continue reading

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Snow Leopard Upgade

Ok, as I know most of the stuff around Snow Leopard has been said already somewhere on Twitter or other people their blogs, I am quite amazed by how much media coverage (and internet coverage) the product has been getting over the last couple of weeks. Of course it is good to stay current with you Mac, but for most users the most tempting marketing word from Apple seemed to have been ‘speed’. Continue reading

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Fresh Blog

Ok. Omdat het Thinking Thin verhaal nog niet echt van de grond was gekomen, heb ik besloten om dit blog maar weer te gebruiken voor wat periodieke braindumps rondom de zaken die er voor mij op het moment toe doen. … Continue reading

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