The idea was to use "bare" SqueezeCenter without bundled CPAN (the CPAN directory was moved away) modules, Solaris 11 (or Nevada build 88) and supplied with Solaris PERL and MySQL.

Then if you start slimserver.pl the errors will let you know which CPAN modules to install. For example:

Or For Nevada b95:

Usually, the bundled CPAN is not up to date. So, let's install it first:

To install (or upgrade) a module run the following:

The only exception is Encode/Detect/Detector.pm or Encode::Detect::Detector. It's has not being touched by the developer for many years and is not recommended for use. The module can be compiled with c++ or g++ (instead of used by default cc or gcc), but with a lot of pain and manual intervention. The easiest way is to get rid of it completely:

• Remove Encode::Detect::Detector from modules.conf (in the root directory of SqueezeCenter)
• Remove or comment the following line in Slim/Utils/Unicode.pm:
  use Encode::Detect::Detector;

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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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

See Part I

Beginning with wine 0.9.57 "-lsunmath" is needed. You can get the libsunmath library from blastwave, for example:

LIBS      = -lsocket -lnsl -lintl -L/opt/csw/lib -lsunmath

This is the error you might get if the library is not specified in dlls/wined3d/Makefile:

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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)