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Services to Disable on New Zones
Update: This list is being moved to a script on github. See the zone_service_cleanup.sh script here. A new zone copies the base system in a lot of areas, including services. Thus, new zones can often be found running CDE. To save RAM and CPU power, those might as well be turned off. User svcadm disable…
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Virtual Networking between Zones
When I first started using zones on Solaris, I ran into networking difficulty. I didn’t want private zone traffic polluting the network at the ISP, and I didn’t need any of the zones to be directly exposed (all traffic could either be proxied or go through ipnat). There was no nice solution for doing this,…
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virtualenv and pip
Sorry, this isn’t a very original post. There are many guides on using virtualenv and pip. Some of them will be more comprehensive. Still, I find value in posting this because to some extent I do use my web site as notes for myself. First, install virtualenv. This is probably as easy as: easy_install virtualenv.…
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The Game Of Life
The new banner is Conway’s Game Of Life. To quote Wikipedia: The Game of Life, also known simply as Life, is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970 This version is in a small playing space for speed, and is lightly mouse interactive (try moving the mouse over the…
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I went downstairs and found the cat stretched out on the sofa and the Deb stretched out on the floor. #somethingsbackwards
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Remeber: When you need to serve simple content for testing (say because of AJAX restrictions on file:///), do: python -m SimpleHTTPServer
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Smoked Chuck
2-4 pound chuck roast 1/4 c. rum 3/4 c. soy sauce 1 c. beef stock 2 T. Worstershire sauce 1/2 diced onion 2 gloves garlic Poke the meat a bit. I think doing so might help the marinade get in. Then stick the meat in a plastic bag, dump the other ingredients in, and close…
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Change of Theme
I like the basic design of TwentyTen (the WordPress default), but I didn’t like the stock header choices. After some time thinking about it, I decided that there should be something dynamic up there. Dynamic is more invasive than just an image swap, and thus some theme customization is required. I didn’t want to deal…
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HTPC
Back in September, I posted about evaluating an Intel D510MO board for HTPC applications, and determined that it wasn’t good enough. Now, I am trying again with an Atom 330 / ION motherboard. This is a slower CPU, but a faster Nvida graphics chipset. Last September it still wouldn’t have done the job, but as…