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I began setting up my new sun server and san at home the other day.. (Picked up a Sun V20Z and a Sun T3 SAN Disk array very cheap)… Because I am going to be doing some IPv6 testing as well, I installed a Sun Gigaswift (aka Sun’s ce, Cassini Ethernet) card in to the machine along with the fibre channel card. I put the VMWare vSphere 4i cd in and went on with the install. But didn’t really pay attention that it did not see the CE card, just the two broadcom cards.. So I went ahead any ways thinking I will fix it later. But it seems that there is no drivers on the interweb for the Sun CE card for vmware? If any one knows of a place to get them let me know? Otherwise I will have to find a new card to use in it’s place.

Sun, VMWare Cassini, Ethernet, Sun, V20Z, VMWare

Not sure how I feel now that Sun is no longer Sun. Kinda weird watching the Oracle web cast of their purchase of Sun and what is going to happen. One thing I can’t understand is they are all wearing badges saying “We’re Hiring!”. But yet they let go SO many good Sun employees. I just don’t think it is going to be the same old Sun that I have used since 1994.

RIP Sun 1982 – 2010

From http://blogs.sun.com/jag/

Random Stuff, Solaris, Sun Oracle, RIP, Sun

Started installing the Sun Ray 5 Early Access software tonight. Some things I found so far that weren’t where I thought they should have been in the wiki docs:

1. It requires that you have Java 1.6 on the machine. Solaris 10 Update 7 does not come with Java 1.6, so I had to download and install it.

2. It needed apache tomcat installed, this is for the admin gui.

Unfortunately I only got as far as getting it installed. I was testing it in a Solaris VM machine on my Mac, however I was having problems getting it to bind to the second ethernet interface. So that will be for later.

Sun Ray, Sun Ray @Home Early Access, Java, Solaris, Sun, Sun Ray, Tomcat

Justin pointed out to me tonight that the new Recommended and Security patch clusters for Solaris 10 were quite large. And right he was.. It seems that in the last month or so the 10 Recommended patch cluster has grown from 400meg to over 1GB in size now. (not to mention that he said you need almost 2.5 gig of space to unzip it.)

Looking at the cluster readme, I can take a guess as to why it is so large, there are multiple kernel patches. There are also updates to Firefox, Thunderbird, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Adobe Flash plugin, multiple Java Updates and a patch for the defunct Mozilla 1.7 browser (which in my opinion should just be removed completely).

The interesting part is that the X86 patch cluster is over 300Meg smaller than the sparc one. The only major difference that I can think of is that X86 doesn’t have Adobe Acrobat Reader yet.

I wish Sun would just offer a ISO download of all the patches now (sort of like the EIS dvd) for the public.  Also need to find a faster way to download the patches.

Security, Solaris, Sun Security, Solaris, Sun

So I get poked fun of at work any time I wear a Sun shirt.(And no I don’t have Sun Underwear, or Sun Socks, or anything with a Sun logo that is below the belt.).. When I first started I pretty much wore a Sun logo’d item every day… (I have enough, more on that later).  I have cut back some (have to dress up a little more now.) So I decided tonight to start going through the house to find all of my Sun stuff. So far this is what I have found:

1. Numerous ink pens. Everything from the pen/highlighters from classes, to some more expensive ones that are engraved/etched.
2. Sun Mints (got to say one of the weirdest)
3. Sun Sun Glasses
4. Various Sun Hardware, from Servers to workstations. (SPARC2, 5, and Ultra 5)
5. Broke Sun Ray 1 (the caps in it were from the bad caps era)
6. 3 Sun Binders
7. 1 Sun Leather notebook
8. 4 Sun ceramic mugs
9. 2 Sun mugs
10. 1 Sun Water bottle
11. 3 Sun book bags
12. 2 Sun Jackets
13. 1 Sun folding Camp stool
14. 7 Sun Polo Shirts
15. 1 Sun long Sleeve dress shirt
16. 10 Sun T-Shirts
17. 3 or 4 Sun Mouse pads, both cloth and the old hashed ones for the original optical mouse
18. 3 Sun lapel pins for Certifications that I have earned.
19. 3 Sun “business cards” for certifications that I have earned
20. Sun microphone
21. Sun Java Cup Coaster
22. Sun Stop Watch
23. Wireless Sun laptop mouse
24. 1 Sun CoolThreads niagra CPU
25. Various Sun Java Cards from the EBC
26. Copies of SunOS 4
27. Copies of Solaris for SPARC and Intel from Solaris 2.5 up to and including Solaris 10
28. Copy of OpenSolaris 2005.08
29. Various Sun brochures, pictures and marketing items
30. little Java Duke squeeze toy
31. Sun Monitor Duster
32. Very old Sun Frisbee
33. 3 Sun baseball hats
34. Sun Type 4 keyboard
35. Sun Type 5 keyboard
36. Sun Type 6 keyboard

This is just what I have found in the couple of hours I looked briefly through the house.  And for the proof here are some pics.  So as you can see I am a “Sun Geek”.

Sun, SunGeek Sun, SunGeek