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The first attempt to compile Kompozer for Solaris

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For customers using non-Sun USB keyboards, controls such as volume and reset can be accessed using alternate key sequences. Use the key combination Ctrl-Pause-, where is one of the keys listed in the table below:
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For e1000g (Solaris):
Change /kernel/drv/e1000g.conf to:

For rge (Solaris):
Maximum MTU supported by rge is 7000.
Change /kernel/drv/rge.conf to:

Then reboot.

The result:

Today I had to search through dozens of mail logs (syslog) located on several mail relays and find all entries related to a particular user.

Given:

• All servers are managed via a remote tty console,
• The ksh-script must be copy&pasteable
• All logs are gzipped
• I need all entries with the same message number (the ninth field) as the found log entry

This is what I came up with:

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Some CPU’s and system boards allow you to change operating voltage and frequency, resulting in a corresponding change in performance, and power consumed.

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Wine 1.1.3 is out! Let’s see hot it compiles on Solaris snv_95 (Solaris 11 build 95).
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See I/OAT description here.

Solaris (at least snv_93 and and snv_95) panics if large amount of traffic is sent across the interface dedicated to a zone with exclusive TCP/IP stack. For example, start Firefox and forward the X traffic to the global zone.
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http://www.intel.com/technology/ioacceleration/

Intel® I/O Acceleration Technology (Intel® I/OAT) accelerates TCP/IP processing and reduces CPU  overhead. It scales up to eight GbE and 10 10GbE ports and supported on dual- or quad-core Xeon architecture.

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If after entering username/password you see a small window (with a going back and forth blue “slider”) saying:

“Completing post install setup”

most likely svc:/system/postrun/default service is not running.

Check the status:

and enable it if it’s disabled (for example, after a system upgrade)

Related system packages: