Posts tagged with: ubuntu

I work with a couple of guys who are quite stuck in their ways and are quite reliant on old tools, one of which is xclipboard(1). Unfortunately, Gnome comes with it's own clipboard manager, so when you try to run xclipboard, you get the following: $ xclipboard Error: another clipboard is already running $ Of course, ps(1M) will show no clipboard related processes running. This is because the functionality is performed by Gnome itself, I believe, as part of the functionality of gnome-settings-daemon. One of my colleagues gave me the challenge of getting xclipboard working on Gnome on OpenSolaris/Nevada, ie Gnome 2.6, and I found it quite easy to do in the end. The trick is to tell Gnome not to perform this functionality anymore as follows: Continue reading ►

Whilst I'm primarily a Solaris/OpenSolaris man, I do like to keep myself in touch with the Linux world - partly out of necessity and partly out of curiosity. I run Ubuntu (sticking with my African roots and because it's the best distro I've used) on my very very very old laptop (need) and also within VirtualBox on my Mac (curiosity). Well, it's that time of year again: it's time to update to the latest and greatest as Jaunty Jackalope is now ready for all to download, install and enjoy. Along with the usual latest and greatest features, I'm particularly... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 14 Nov 2008 - 1 Dec 2008: Replacing high-end Unix with enterprise Linux? Not so fast - It's nice to see some people are actually looking at the merits of Solaris 10 and it's Containers (aka zones with provisioning) in comparison to a Linux/VMware alternative. Ubuntu vs. OpenSolaris vs. FreeBSD Benchmarks - Interesting benchmarking of these 3 popular operating systems, and believe it or not OpenSolaris (or Slow-aris as it was once coined) does pretty well. Code Instructions: Java Performance - A good read if you still have doubts about Java's performance. Java is much much... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 30 Apr 2008 - 14 May 2008: Brussels: Uniform Interface to Driver Administration Through dladm(1m) - Finally!!! A unified simple and easy way to configure network interface settings like auto-neg, duplex, mtu etc on Solaris. Currently only in OpenSolaris and Nevada though. OpenSolaris: What Ubuntu wants to be when it grows up - Great plug for OpenSolaris 2008.05 that has just been released. Microsoft Has Developed Windows Forensic Analysis Tool for Police - A bit more on the COFEE tool - looks like it's just MS bundling up a bunch of freely available tools in an... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 9 August 2007 - 6 September 2007: BIND 8 Has been EOLd - ISC have announced BIND 8 is End of Life as of 27 August 2007 and is encouraging everyone move to BIND 9. I wonder if Sun will be backporting BIND 9 to Solaris 8 and 9, or opting to run their own patch stream until these OSes are EOLd. NetApp Hits Sun With Patent Infringement Lawsuit - I can't help feel this is NetApp showing it's fear of ZFS and Sun's future products based on ZFS. Why else would they file the patent... Continue reading ►