Author Archives: Marcelo Leal - Page 15

Nostalgic…

Posted in General by Marcelo Leal on 16 December 2008 No Comment

Ok, i'm not that old... ;-) but, today i was talking with a co-worker about old internet things, and two of them came to my mind: Harvard Telnet Services Freeshell Man, i have used that two services a lot! My email and home page were hosted at freeshell for many years, ...

Installing OpenSolaris 2008.11 on USB

Posted in General by Marcelo Leal on 12 December 2008 Tags: 2008.11, grub, Opensolaris, rpool, usb No Comment

In case somebody does not know, there is a little problem to install OpenSolaris 2008.11 on USB. After the installation, you will not be able to boot the new image, because of problems with the new grub implementation. So, you can see here a post with the description: 'grub that ...

A simple tip about FMA

Posted in General by Marcelo Leal on 02 December 2008 Tags: fma, repair, Zfs 2 Comments

Solaris 10/OpenSolaris have many new features, and some users used to GNU/Linux, or even used to older versions of Solaris, sometimes don't know some of them. We have been heard a lot about ZFS and Dtrace, for example, but there are much more! In my previous ...

New house, new life…

Posted in General by Marcelo Leal on 29 November 2008 No Comment

NovoAP Well, these were not the three more simple months of my life, no way! It was not the first time i was not in my birth town either, but the first time after my marriage. Not easy, away of my kids, and just a few months after Leonardo's birth. São ...

Porto Alegre OSUG Meeting November 27th

Posted in General by Marcelo Leal on 27 November 2008 Tags: contest, glassfish, java, mysql, Opensolaris, Poaosug No Comment

This was a great year for our OpenSolaris User Group, many events, and a lot of new users! Today i could congratulate Vitório Sassi and Ronaldo Prass, two PoAOSUG members, for the awards in the Student Reviews contest (MySQL and Glassfish), with the project Jsaw (Java System Authentication for Wireless ...

Coke or Coffee?

Posted in General, Suncluster by Marcelo Leal on 21 November 2008 6 Comments

All day writing code and Coke, or all day writing code and Coffee? What is the worst health habits? Sorry, but i want to know your opinion about it. And if you think that topic is not related with OpenSolaris, Solaris, GNU/Linux, and etc, you are in the wrong profession. ...

New virtual address…

Posted in General by Marcelo Leal on 12 November 2008 One Comment

Hello all, it's a complicated move, but a necessary one... As you can see, i did change my home site, and that is something i was trying to avoid because all my email, aggregations, and a few links to my blog around the net, need to be changed too. But now ...

Tabbloid

Posted in General by Marcelo Leal on 05 November 2008 No Comment

An interesting service by HP. Well, maybe the point is 'printing service', but you don't need to print....

Youngest-ever – world f1 champion

Posted in General by Marcelo Leal on 02 November 2008 Tags: 2008, champion, f1, lewis-hamilton No Comment

It 's amazing that this historical season finale did occur here in São Paulo/Brazil! Massa was perfect, and did what he could: pole, fatest lap, and was the race winner. But, in my opinion, the best driver won the championship. Lewis Hamilton is a phenomenon, and gave us many racing shows ...