As someone coming from Linux I find working in Solaris completely backwards. Case in point: Today I needed to get the drive information from a Solaris machine. Of all commands the one to use is “format.” Go figure. Anyway, here’s how to do it, thanks to this article: bash-3.00# format Searching for disks…done AVAILABLE DISK [...]

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The piece of software that I test at work has an option to enable debug logging to a file. Normally, I run with this enabled so that I have a record of what I did and any errors that I encounter. However, this file can become extremely bloated and if often hundreds of megabytes by [...]

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I just finished installing VMWare Workstation 6.0.3 under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) and ran into some issues.  During the configuration, when VMWare is compiling drivers for the system, I got an error saying “include/asm/bitops_32.h:9:2: error: #error only <linux/bitops.h> can be included directly” From my reading this seems to be related to version 2.6.24 of the Linux [...]

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I recently installed Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) into a VMWare image on my WIndows machine.  I know, that’s backwards, Linux should be the host not the guest.  It’s actually my wife’s computer, so I dare not remove Windows. Anyway, the mouse wheel was not scrolling properly.  After some searching I found the answer here.  Basically, you [...]

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