For the first time I did not have to do anything special to compile wine. Just configure and gmake. The rest is pretty the same: Picasa runs at 100% CPU load, Firefox 3b5 crashes every 5 minutes ;-)

If lsof is installed in your system:

If lsof is not installed:

• Run pfiles /proc/* | less
• Search for port:
  • Press </>
  • Type port: 23
  • Press <Enter>

The result may look like:

New release, new features, new bug fixes and new bugs.
Let’s start with compiling.
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A short guide on how to recover a broken DiskSuite mirror.
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Probably your mc is compiled by Blastwave (CSW) and you are running Solaris 11. Try to download it from Ibiblio  and compile it by yourself.

Recommended configure settings:

 ./configure --enable-extcharset --enable-charset --with-samba

UTF8 is still not supported, though.

Internet/Intranet Input Method (IIIM) is a distributed Input Method solution that provides Input support for Java & X11 clients via Internet/Intranet. The related documentation can be found here.

When I upgraded from snv_83a to snv_85 I lost the ability to switch layouts. This is what I discovered:

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If you see something like:

instead of normal ASCII text, run the following command (blindly)

tput sgr

Since upgrading to s11b83a I noticed that gam_server processes eat significant amount of CPU cycles. So I decided to make some investigations.

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## Waiting for up to <300> seconds for package administration
commands to become available (another user is administering
packages on zone <XXX>)

• Remove /tmp/.ai.pkg.zone.lock-* from all zones
• Remove /var/sadm/install/.lockfile
• Remove /var/sadm/install/.pkg.lock (<- not sure about this one)