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As with Linux, Firefox and Thunderbird are available for Solaris and OpenSolaris in a variety of forms: supplied with the OS, installed separately from a pkg and installed separately from a tarball (both available from Mozilla.org). Of these, the only way you can get any sort of automatic update is with the first option: via an OS update and this tends to lag behind the available releases by quite some margin. Well, that's about to change, at least for some people.I'll get straight into the technical details and leave the background behind all of this to the very end.This post and the accompanying code was inspired by this article on Mozilla Developer Center.Update: Ooops, it would seem the automatic update DOES work by default for the tarball downloads, it just doesn't offer an automatic upgrade between 3.5.x and 3.6.x as I was testing. I'll leave the rest of this post as is as an "education" for those wanting to implement their own internal crude update system.  Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 22 Apr 2010 - 19 May 2010:  Continue reading ►

I've been using Thunderbird 3 (I'm currently running one of the 3.1 RC builds so I can use Lightning) for quite some time now without any obvious problems. Some of the new functionality is a bit annoying, like the global search thingy that opens the results in a new tab, but otherwise it's been working well for me.I have however just become aware of a problem which most people wouldn't notice, and I certainly didn't until Oracle started enforcing the quota on my home directory: Thunderbird 3.x is a very very greedy pig when it comes to disk space.  Continue reading ►

Is it just me or has NWAM lost the "M", ie the magic, in snv_135? I've recently updated and whilst the NWAM functionality has apparently been enhanced (there's way more configuration stuff now) and a more functional GUI implemented, for the life of me I can't get it to reliably connect to my home wifi network. I need to poke and prod it to come to life on each boot. Time to go digging to see if I can work out why.  Continue reading ►

First off, let me make it clear that I don't know much more about this topic than you do and will only be commenting on what is public knowledge pulling in my experiences as a support engineer.  Continue reading ►

Looks like Google have been caught napping slightly. Firefox 3.6 has been in development for while and has been out for nearly a week now and we still don't have an officially compatible version of the Google Page Speed extension.  Continue reading ►

Did you know you can now upgrade both VxVM AND Solaris using Live Upgrade without reverting to underlying devices? I didn't, until today when I discovered a document on exactly this topic from Symantec: Upgrading VxVM and/or Solaris using Live Upgrade.  Continue reading ►

If you've ever had to setup and troubleshoot NIS+, you'll know what a nightmare it can be and quite frankly how unreliable it is unless you're 100% accurate with all your configuration and settings and really know what you're doing. Well, you'll also be pleased to know NIS+ is also finally DEAD!!!  Continue reading ►

If you think Solaris patching is a complete nightmare, have a bit of spare time on your hands (don't worry, you can still check emails etc) and really want to get up speed on Sun's best practices for patching on Solaris 10, then check out the FREE Solaris 10 Patching Best Practices (WS-2700-S10) training course.  Continue reading ►

I encountered a problem this evening that I can't really explain, I couldn't install any pkgs via the Package Manager or command line. Both were failing with the same error:  Continue reading ►