Author Archives: Marcelo Leal - Page 19
Today i was at the LinuxPark event, that for the first time was here, in Porto Alegre (Hotel Plaza São Rafael). A lot of good presentations, and success cases about Open Source software in many companies all around the country. The first 'talk' was one of the more interesting, which ...
First time i did have to apply drivers on Solaris at installation time, and was a good experience. This blade servers have SAS discs, and there is no drivers on Solaris by default. Here you can find the needed drivers (storage, network, etc), and good installation instructions. I will make ...
Finally i did receive the two books that i did buy from amazon.com: Solaris Internals (second edition) and Solaris Performance and Tools. The first edition of Solaris Internals, i did read while at university (UNISINOS), but i had not much access to Solaris environment that time, but the concepts of ...
Ok, i think the answer for this question is uncertain and doubtful. There is something in GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris/OpenSolaris, MacOSX, AIX, that i really like, but i don't know what it is. Sad, but true. All that OS have a deep, really deep relation with each other, but wich is? ...
Yesterday we had our meeting here in Porto Alegre. We are evolving a little bit at each meeting, and some goals like:
1- PoaOSUG's web site new design;
2- Fixed date and hour for our meetings;
3- A formal structure for our meetings:
a) First the general ...
Before talking about what is what, and what is better, i will say that i do prefer the things working...
If you are deploying Solaris ZFS/NFS services on your site, and you have GNU/Linux NFS clients, you will probably face problems like this sooner or later. The standard UNIX permissions scheme ...
Sometime ago i was talking with others PoaOSUG members, about the creation of a custom GDM theme for the user group. So we can create a IPS package and give the users the option to personalize their desktops (laptops), with our own theme. Ok, that's the beauty of open software, ...
I do remember when i did try to use The FreeBSD kernel with Debian userland softwares. I do remember when i have tryed/used the Solaris 9 environment with the NetBSD ports system, and Gentoo portage system too. Yesterday, i think that whole problem was fixed, with the release of the ...
Nos meus 33 anos de idade, já escrevi sobre os maiores jogadores de futebol que vi nos gramados, e agora escrevo sobre o maior treinador que já vi no Sport Club Internacional: Abel Braga. Não sou muito de colocar a culpa nos treinadores, e poucas vezes 'fiz campanha' para ...
About a week ago, i did start to face a problem with my desktop computer at home. The machine was just hanging, or sometimes shutting off... after the first shuttdown, when i did try to power on the computer, i did hear a tipical 'bip' serie from the CPU, and ...