hyperion 11.1.2.2 released
Hyperion 11.1.2.2 is now available on the Oracle edelivery site: There will be some busy consultants over the new week pouring over the readmes and installation files PS, Still no love for Solaris x64, guess I’ll have to make do with Windows or maybe Linux
an independent review of ZFS
Some of the best reviews I’ve found online have been at AnandTech, on SSD & SSD to displays and anything else computer related, now AnandTech have done a review of ZFS. From a quick read this morning they’ve done a thorough review of using ZFS both from OpenSolaris and Nexenta compared to their current Promise storage system. [...]
another solaris bus, i mean podcast
Once again Dan, Bill and Chris have been working overtime and have produced another podcast this time focusing on yesterdays release of: Solaris 10 Update 9/10 Solaris Studio 12.2 Solaris Cluster 3.3 They cover all three products highlighting some of the commitments and major improvements on integrating components which provide developer and users with improved [...]
solaris podcasts are like london buses
You wait and wait, then all of a sudden three show up. Well that’s not exactly true as I highlighted the first Solaris podcast in early August and had just noticed a new one this week and then lo and behold a third quickly followed on Friday. Although there does seem to be some gremlins [...]
essbase on solaris – are you mad?
Several years ago Sun began a project to update and consolidate the business intelligence tools used at Sun and we decided on Hyperion as we had a variety of Hyperion tools already: Brio, Essbase. This was a few years before the Oracle acquisition of Hyperion and we wanted to run on Solaris. This meant we [...]
OpenOffice 3.2.1 security and bug fix released
OpenOffice 3.2.1 is released today and contains bug and security updates as well as a brand refresh, which can be seen in the splash screen image. The fixes list can be found here and the release notes here. Also just over 29.8 million downloads have occurred since version 3.2 was announced. What a way to celebrate your 10th birthday!! (Thanks [...]
SSD experiment
After some of my recent blogs on SSDs, I was excited to have in my hand an OCZ Vertex 60GB SSD. However I neglected to remember that in my other hand I needed to have both SATA data and SATA power cables. After a trip to the local store, I come back with the required [...]
KDE on OpenSolaris
Ever get tired of the same old gnome desktop on OpenSolaris? Try the latest KDE version easily, quickly and simply: add the required repository: pfexec pkg set-authority -O http://solaris.bionicmutton.org:10001/ bionicmutton *** See Note1 below refresh the repository: pfexec pkg refresh bionicmutton add the required packages: pfexec pkg install KDEbase-apps KDEgdm-integration *** See Note 3 below [...]
OpenSolaris Dedup details
So ZFS dedup made it into build 128, which is now available from the /dev repository and will therefore be in the 2010.03 release of OpenSolaris. So how to setup and test, it’s very easy from a terminal window. I’ve got compression set on the pools, so lets get some baseline numbers: (see Thierry’s PartnerTech [...]
Firefox 3.6 changes the java plugin
Firefox 3.6 is just around the corner, due to be delivered later this year. In testing I found out that the old java plugin version (libjavaplugin_oji.so) on opensolaris was no longer recognised and hence java apps didn’t work So what’s the deal? Since Java 6 update 10, there is a new implementation of the java [...]
