bean gets upgraded to Solaris Nevada build 87

hippy@bean~$more /etc/release Solaris Express Community Edition snv_87 SPARC Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Use is subject to license terms. Assembled 07 April 2008 I thought I’d live life on the edge and run Solaris Nevada build 87 on bean. I suppose I…

Upgrading Bean to Solaris 10 5/08 U4

Yep, with the release of Solaris 10 5/08 U5 it was time to upgrade bean (my V100 loft server) from Solaris 10 8/07 U4 but unfortunately I ran into bug 6652201 – “liveupgrade failed from s10u4 to s10u5_05, package install failed, because 7za cannot be found” with lots…

BMW maintenance

I had a little shock when I went to get some tyre replacements for my 5 series as I was quoted £205 for a single replacement…..ouch. Apparently the Dunlop 230/55ZR390 SP2000E tyres are 5 series specific and only specially made hence why they are so expensive. The nice…

Something is happening under the stairs

Yesterday, Matt and myself finished digging out the floor under the stairs. The reason for this was the same reason I dug out the dinning room floor and that was to avoid damp issues. It was also because the original 1/4″ tiles got dug up for the central heating…

Snowing.....

Yes, unbelievable as it was it actually snowed down south and all in a couple of hours! I was quite surprised to look out of the window and see 3 or 4 inches of snow had actually settled. Strangely enough it didn’t last long as the day progressed as…