Online Storage

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Windows XP themes

Windows XP Royal
Images of Ireland

Computer Algebra System

Maxima at Sourceforge.
TeXemacs

WiFi SIP Phones

Here is an interesting FCC record on Linksys WIP330. Here is the manual for WIP330.
Here is an interesting alternative: ETEN M600

DesignCon 2006

I was there at DesignCon 2006

Interactive Textbooks

This one looks quite interesting. It would be great if this becomes more of a mainstream style. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, a Harcourt Classroom Education Company and Thinkwell.

Windows XP Pro and Solaris 10 multiboot and disaster recovery

I have a very bad experience to start with, but all turned out to be well in the end. I had a Windows XP Pro system that I take mirror image of on a regular basis using Acronis True Image. Generally, the strategy that works quite well is to do a restore, update and take a backup right after any major software install. I had one of these images that rescued me after I destroyed my system during multiboot operation.

I started with making Solaris 10 DVD and it's companion software DVD. I created an empty partition on the disk that had Windows XP Pro installed. Duting the Solaris install, I was presented with the disk parititioner. Since the partitioner is not graphical, there was no way to figure out where Solaris will be installed. I assumed that it will use the empty partition. I was wrong and it destroyed my Windows XP installation.

Acronis came to rescue and I quickly restored my Windows XP installation, getting rid of Solaris 10. Now, I decided to use the slave disk for Solaris 10 installation. I rebooted the computer and chose the slave disk as the boot disk. Then installed Solaris 10. Everything went fine, and I had Solaris up and running on slave disk. GRUB even had a menu entry for Windows, which did not work and complained of missing ntloader.

So, now I ended up with a system where I had to switch disks in the BIOS to select the OS. To avoid doing this, I installed Acronis OS Selector, which has a very cool looking interface. It automatically detected all the boot disks and had no problem booting up with windows. Solaris failed to boot up in this configuration since I switched the disks back to original boot order.

I had to change the boot disk in GRUP from hd0 to hd1. This configuration works quite well. Acronis OS selector is the primary boot selector. If I choose to boot Solaris, I get the GRUB meny and continue booting. Choosing Windows directly boots into Windows XP Pro.

Later I had problems setting up the network, that I have already described how to configure.

ASUS P4C800 Delux LAN with Solaris 10

I got in some issues with my motherboard since the drivers for the LAN are not part of the Solaris 10 distribution. Here is what I did to finally get connectivity. The HCL for solaris came in handy.

1. Download and unpack the drivers from ASUS website.
2. Copy the files to a floppy.
3. Mount the floppy on Solaris system.
   # volrmmount -i floppy
   
4. Install the packge.
   # pkgadd -d . sol3C940
   It will ask for reboot. Use the command supplied for reboot.
   
5. Determine which interfaces are currently installed on the system.
   # dladm show-link
   
6. Configure and plumb each interface.
   # ifconfig tcge0 plumb up
   
7. Verify that the newly configured interfaces are plumbed and configured, or “UP.”
   # ifconfig -a
   
8. To make the interface configuration persist across reboots, create an /etc/hostname.interface file for each interface to be configured.
   # touch /etc/hostname.tcge0
   
9. To enable dhcp add the following file:
   # touch /etc/dhcp.tcge0
   
10. Perform a reconfiguration boot.
    # reboot -- -r
    
11. Verify that the interface you created in the /etc/hostname.interface file has
    been configured.
    # ifconfig -a
    

B&H Photo Video - Request a B&H Catalog

B&H Photo Video - Request a B&H Catalog

Partition types

Partition types

Multi-booting Solaris and other operating systems

Multi-booting Solaris and other operating systems