I have finally found some time to install my new Sun Enterprise 3000 server, now hostnamed Caradhras. It has been installed with Solaris 10 (s10_63), and a 5 GB sized partition has been dedicated to Debian. The config of the dualboot between Solaris and Debian wasn't very easy. I finally choose the following path :

1. Install Solaris (root partition on slice 0), and dedicate 2 partitions for Linux.


2. Let Solaris install its bootblock and update the nvram.


3. Install Linux/Debian and let it install Silo over the Solaris bootblock in slice 0


4. When in command line, run ''silo -t'' to install the Silo bootblock on the same partition as your Linux root.


5. Finally, boot from the Solaris cdrom and install the Solaris bootblock again on slice 0 :

installboot /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0

That way, the machine boots into its bootprompt, and with ''boot disk:g'' (if you installed Linux on /dev/sda7) you can boot into Silo.
Sun has put up a page with more information about Linux/Solaris dualboot setups.

A sad record : Belgium (together with parts of France, Germany and Holland) is one of the three most polluted areas of the world. The two other smog areas are the most eastern parts of Nothern America and China.

We spent the last two weeks in Turkey, the first week touring through West and Central Turkey, and the last week at the beach in Bodrum. The tour week included a day in Istanbul, and I found it almost like coming home after my first visit, now some three years ago. I even discovered a Starbucks at Taxim street, which made my day really great.

Gentlemen, start your drooling. This is my new toy : a Sun Enterprise 3000 server. Very hefty, very noisy, but very beautiful (and powerful). Unfortunately, the box doesn't contain any disks yet, so it's powered now by a SparcGentoo live CD. It's purpose will be a testbed for Solaris10, so I can play with zones and DTrace. And, yes there will be a partition too dedicated to Sparc Debian ;)

'Java 1.5 has been released, and in a weird twist of fate, Sun decides to call it J2SE 5.0.

Cute or very, very wrong, Mozilla Firefox themed furry anime girls.

Blastwave has a nice introduction about Solaris zones. I would very like to see a comparison between zones, good old chroots and something like Linux Virtual Server, or User-Mode-Linux, each compared with their benefits and disavantages.

With the release of the new Star Wars DVD box, it's a good thing to reveal the truth about the saga : from the beginning, Lucas confused the good guys with the bad. The deep lesson of Star Wars is that the Empire is good. In his column, Jonathan Last explains in his case for the Empire, what's wrong with our view on a galaxy far, far away.

Kazuo Yoshia has an impressive collection of little whiskey bottles. Drinking that up must have cost him a fortune (and his liver).

It's official, 25% more unbelievable greatness in the Special Extended Edition of Return of the King, the 3rd movie in The Lord of the Rings trilogy.


" The linked description (on the official LotR site) starts "DISCS 1-2: The Feature FEATURE (approx. 250 minutes) - A new version of the final installment in the epic trilogy! The Academy-Award winning film now has 50 minutes of never-before-seen footage incorporated into the film for this highly-anticipated video release."


The extended version can be ordered starting on Oct 1st. Whoo-hoo !