On the opensolaris bandwagon

So I just spent the last couple of hours getting Opensolaris 200805 on my PC. I previously had SXCE on, build 81 I think. The move was not as straightforward as I would've liked, then again, it can be blamed entirely on myself since I did not read the Release Notes.

On my first try, I got my USB pen thingy and used the tool provided to copy over what was on the live CD onto my pen drive. So the USB pen drive was my first input into trying to install. Well, I couldn't even get the live system to load, which was good because I forgot to export my zfs filesystem which was not on my Solaris partition in order in re import it cleanly on the new install.

So I just moved on to the livecd, popped up the gui-install app and was on my way, chose the current partitining got to 99% and it just stalled there. So I restarted...

... and on my last try (many omitted), I just deleted my Solaris partition, my primary Linux Swap partition and created a new Solaris 2 partition on top of both. I also destroyed the rpool zfs that was lying around and got it to install.

Right now I'm installing openoffice, sunstudioexpress and netbeans with ips. While waiting for it to finish I went on and was going to re setup my cbe environment as I had in SXCE to build some applications out of the spec files provided.

I was going to document that but found this http://blogs.sun.com/dhollister/entry/solaris_vs_audacity, so if it works, great, if not I'll document the differences.

While I waited I also created a sourceforge accout with the intent of contributing some spec files. I hope I can live up to my own expectations and do it.

Preparandose para el futuro

Los chicos de tele 2001 me llevaron a ver un film llamado *Zeitgeist*, la verdad es que me sorprende las porquerias que se ven en este mundo. Tambien ha logrado de que me cuestione muchas cosas sobre como vivimos ahora, asi como tambien alentar el hecho de que, en general, nadie sabe lo que quiere y es guiado a pensar que lo sabe. Estaremos proximos a 1984 (Big Brother)? O es que ya estamos ahi y mejorando la supervision? En los tiempos actuales, ver el gran hermano (mucha gente que conozco lo ve), sera una preparacion a lo que se viene?

La impotencia a todo esto me deja demasiado triste, quiza no todas las cosas en ese film sean ciertas o todo sea una exageracion de la realidad. En definitiva, lo unico que quedan son puntos de vista. Y este es un punto que me gustaria explorar, en su lugar, las ambiciones y objetivos serian similares?

Espero creer que no. Donde esta el bien contra el mal al cual tanto me aferro? Hay tanto mal que el bien es opacado.

En el trabajo me suceden cosas similares, nos preguntamos con un amigo siempre de porque no podemos ser mas simples y solo hacer lo que debemos hacer sin cuestionar tanto las cosas.


En fin aqui esta el video http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/main.htm, dura dos horas asi que busquense un lugar comodo y tiempo para verlo. Mas abajo estan los subtitulos en castellano (en el link que dice Spanish, o bueno, aqui)

http://nettalk.sun.com/bhive/t/1000/play.jsp?id=1471
Great Sun talk, one of the best I've viewed.

media effects upon a good thing

This video snips through Sputnik and what evolved around it. The video also shows how disinformation can cause bad secondary effects.



There a lot of interesting videos on that site, you should check them out!

Arthur C. Clarke

It's rare how someone you don't know can make you feel so gloomy. Clarke's one of those people I have never met if ever through his books and experience regarding geostationary orbits and related topics. Laika introduced me to his work and I'm ever so grateful for that.

Today I got the goosebumps after learning that he has passed away. May he rest in peace...

Update: http://spectrum.ieee.org/mar08/6075