A Happier downstairs

Yes, it’s taken a long time to get to this moment but downstairs is almost there but most of the major work is complete. I’ve now got sanded and varnished floors and coving up in front room, dining room and hallway (upstairs and downstairs) along with all rooms…

Installing Oracle on hobbes

Seeing as I have to investigate Solaris interoperability issues with Oracle, I thought I’d install 10.0.2.0 X86 on my home system running Nevada build 94 but unfortunately there is a problem during the installation linking which was logged under CR 6646842 – “linker will not link 32bit…

Live Upgrade on Steriods

Yes, with the fact that I’ve got ZFS boot/root running, Live upgrade is a piece of cake due to the fact that ZFS can snapshot and clone the current boot environment. Here’s now what I do to live upgrade my home system when a new build is…

Dave, Dave, Dave and a whole bunch of Dave

Ok, can you spot the real Dave? 🙂 Yep, it was Dave’s stag do at our friendly Ashurst campsite in the New Forest for Beer, Meats and more Beer. Everyone had a good time and it was nice to catch up with some old friends (and I don’t mean…

The downstairs floors get sanded and varnished.

The house has been slowly progressing and at times seems like it’s taking too long to finish but I think things are finally coming together. Last week, Pheebs and I emptied the downstairs furniture outside under some tarpaulins so the floors could be sanded. I hired the equipment from…