Solaris 10 in the works
Figured out what I was doing wrong. Well not exactly. Solaris 10 has thie SMF - Service Management Facility. It replaces all the startup stuff that Solaris has had since The Beginning. First off with the telnet problem I think I was not all the way up in multiuser mode. In a fit of frustration I rebooted the box, and dang if it didn't come all the way up and start up a graphical login screen. And whaddya know, telnet works.

But then DNS client wasn't working. Which is kinda funny, because recently me and Lee and been joking with some employee prospects that they needed to know how to set up a Sun system as a DNS client. nsswitch.conf and resolv.conf and boom, right? Not in Solaris 10. You still have to do that alright (my nsswitch.conf file was setup properly, but strangely the resolv.conf was not - interesting since I specified DNS as my only naming service at install time and hand put in the DNS servers...)

After a futile 2 hours or so if svcadm this and svcs that, in a fit of frustration I rebooted, and boom - DNS client works.

So if Solaris is getting more and more like Windows, that's somehow a good thing?

-jason

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Taming the wire madness 2
A second view. Notice that the data wires run at 90 degree angles to the power lines. That was about the only thing from physics I actually retained.


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Taming the wire madness
In the span of one month I added Vonage (don't you dare sign up without being referred, you get a free month if referred!) and a GIGe switch for home (hey, it was a hundred bucks for 8 ports). With the stack of modems, routers, that Vonage thing (it's called an ATA?, right?) and the switch, plus all of their transformers and wires and whatnot, it was out of control. I needed to do something, so I got the tiewraps and pegboard out and went to town.


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Venom Battery Discharger: First Impressions
I purchased 5 of these Venom Battery Dischargers . The idea was to use these to finish discharging the battery packs after a round of driving. But since I just got them and the weather is nasty outside I thought I'd use them today to condition the batteries I have in inventory.

Of course, reading here these guys specifically state that these are not for battery conditioning. Oopsie.

And they stink. I mean man, the last time I smelled this smell was when the amp in my '78 camero fried. It's that distinctive "burning electrical" smell...

Hope I didn't mess up my batteries (I have 10 batteries that I've fully charged, then fully discharged with this product today. As my biggest batteries I even charged and then discharged AGAIN.)

-jason

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It Begins
Welcome. It remains to be seen how faithful I will be to this forum, but let's give this a whirl and see what happens.

Currently there are two projects that I'm currently investing time into. Solaris 10, and NetApp.

On the Solaris 10 front, I downloaded the ISOs from Sun Friday night finally. I actually pulled both the Sparc and x86 because at home I have a SunBlade 150. But uptime on that box says 438 days, so I can't bring myself to shutting down that box to load up Solaris 10.

root@spic # uptime
5:32pm up 438 day(s), 7:20, 2 users, load average: 0.32, 0.21, 0.20
root@spic #

Which leaves me with "limpy". Limpy is a Compaq Presario 5600 series box I custom ordered from Best Buy like in 1998. This was the first desktop computer I ever purchased for home use. Up to that point I had relied on company issued technology (except for way back in i think 1994 when I spend $3,000 of my own money on a 486 DX2/66 laptop for work use - what can I say I was kinda ahead of the times, ahead of my companies desire to equip me with a laptop that is)

This is a Presario running an Intel P2 450MHz with 128MB of ram. I know it's got an 80GB hard drive because I replaced the 20GB drive it came with about 2 years ago when I was messing with RedHat.

I have Solaris 10 build 72 for x86 up and running no problems (some nonrecoverable SCSI read errors not withstanding.. SCSI? Oh really?) But I can't telnet to it. I'm learning that in Solaris 10 there's the nifty new commands svcadm and inetadm. I can't figure out how to get my box setup so I can telnet to it. So I posted my first ever question to the sun support forums site. We'll see what response that gets.

On the NetApp side, you'll have to stay tuned. I've been fighting with these guys for years now. I work with my customers on a proper disk solution, then these crazy NetAPp guys parachute in and mess it all up.

But the Koolaid has begun to flow, and I'm slowly turning into a believer. Stay tuned.

-jason


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