Redbrick (the student networking society I’ve been involved in over the last while) has a Sun T2000. I’m posting this because it’s fairly hard to find information about the current state of things, and with the way Oracle has handled its takeover of Sun, it’s possible there’ll be other people looking to make the jump [...]

This isn’t mentioned enough online – how to mount an ISO (like, the Solaris 10 ISO) on a Solaris 10 box. With Linux, you’d just mount the device as a loopback file system. With Solaris, you need to use lofiadm to first create the device under /dev/lofi (the exact device name is printed out after [...]

About a week ago I bought an old Sun Blade 100 to experiment with Solaris 10 on. It only came with 256MB of RAM, so it needed an upgrade. The first thing I tried was some old SD-RAM. Not having done enough research, I quickly found out that the system required ECC RAM. Some googling [...]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, someone in Redbrick imagined using our Sun T2000 as a web server. It was a nice dream, in a happy world where it ran Ubuntu, apt did everything for us, and everything generally just worked. This was unfortunately not to be. One major security breach, [...]

…and I’ve got nothing to write about. Damn you cruel fate. Anyway, yes, that means blogs.redbrick.dcu.ie is finally ready to go. Andrew Harford did most of the set up work, I just broke it, fixed it again, fixed the editor and upgraded it. And now it’s a fully functional WPMU 2.7 installation. The upgrade from [...]