Monthly Archives: November 2006

sun ray 2 video specifications

By stotti | Published: November 30, 2006
another reminder for me and for all who want to know which video specs the “new” sun ray 2 virtual display clients support: sun ray 2: 1600×1200 max at 32bit sun ray 2fs: 1900×1200 max at 32bit, supports dual monitor setups (so each screen supports 1900×1200 pixels) and yes, you can still use your old vga monitors with [...]
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free solaris dvd for everyone!

By stotti | Published: November 23, 2006
sun gives away free dvds containing sun solaris 10 (6/06) and sun studio 11. it includes sparc and x86 versions. you better be quick as this is a time-limited offer. i like this because not all people have broadband to leech a full dvd image. decreasing the barriers for people to get in touch with [...]
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tuning sun ray startup procedures

By stotti | Published: November 22, 2006
craig bender blogs on reducing sun ray server load by setting some simple values in the sun ray config. this results in faster startup times. here’s a quick abstract on what the sun ray engineering guys did: Increase Authd worker threads from 8 to 32 Change utprodinfo to do an echo vs. a pkginfo Use non-invasive methods for [...]
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hs_err decyphered… the followup

By stotti | Published: November 17, 2006
[UPDATE] This information is related to developers only. If you have Java problems or want to know more about hs_err errror logs please refer to this more general post.[/UPDATE] i have to correct my statement of how to understand java’s hs_err error files: the tool posted on davids blog was not coded by him but was [...]
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microsoft cakes for everyone!

By stotti | Published: November 2, 2006
perhaps this should act as an update for my last post but i figured that this might be better placed in the fun-section. while one might think that microsoft is evil and blinkered, this photograph proves that there are sane people in redmond as well: the guys at mozilla got this one while shipping the final [...]
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