Amusement: Linux patching


realos# zfs snapshot zones/bashful@prepatch
realos# zlogin bashful
bashful# yum update
[... waah, patches stuffed it up! ...]
bashful# exit
realos# zoneadm -z bashful halt
realos# zfs rollback zones/bashful@prepatch
realos# zoneadm -z bashful boot
[... yay! ...]

On the downside, it’s pretty ancient CentOS as Sun’s Linux kernel emulation is 2.4.x. But it’s still cool and means not having to install native Linux (or, gods protect us, Windows) to run NetApp DFM on that pretty! shiny! massively overspecced! x64 box.

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Tags: Linux, Solaris, inflammatory by matt
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How to improve the web experience on Ubuntu 8.04

  1. Download and install VirtualBox;
  2. Install Windows XP in a VM;
  3. Install Firefox and/or Opera in the VM;
  4. Install Flash in the VM;
  5. Profit!

It’s not just that Firefox is pushing Xorg to eat all the CPU and starving other applications so much that music will stop playing in Rhythmbox, though that’s the biggie for me. Fonts look better, Flash video plays reasonably well — still a little jittery fullscreen but less so than with the native Flash — and Opera obeys the system font settings for menus and dialogs.

Popularity: 44% [?]

Tags: Linux, Tech, Ubuntu, inflammatory by matt
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