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{ Monthly Archives } January 2009

Projects and Resumes

Now is a good time to update my resume (cv), and I’m having a little difficulty in figuring out the best way to present it. The classic “say what you did for the employer” tends to assume that your involvement in projects is bounded by your employment, but that’s not always the case. For example, [...]

Rotating Apache Logs on OpenSolaris

Since the Apache access logs grow with time, I like to rotate them once a month or so (for minor sites that don’t get much traffic). On Debian, you use logrotate (I’ve written about setting it up here). On OpenSolaris, you use the logadm command, with the actual rotation being specified in /etc/logadm.conf. When you [...]

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MacBook Migration

My laptop at Sun was a nice little MacBook; lighter than the MacBook Pro but powerful enough for my needs. So when I left, I decided I’d buy myself a new MacBook, being the path of least resistance. In theory, Apple makes it easy to migrate your information from one MacBook to another. So I [...]

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Leaving Sun

As has been widely reported, Sun Microsystems laid off a number of people on Thursday. That number included most of my project team and me, since the project I was managing was cancelled. Over the nearly four years I was at Sun I learned a lot, contributed what I could, and had fun working with [...]

Apache Virtual Hosts

Notes on installing Apache’s virtual hosts on OpenSolaris 2008.11; part of a series that started with Installing OpenSolaris. On Debian, you have to set up virtual hosts using separate files, called sites-enabled and sites-available, part of the Debian Way Of Doing Things, which is not documented on the Apache site. (I’ve written about this before; [...]

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To-Do List for OpenSolaris Installation

The next step in the OpenSolaris odyssey (here’s the first post) is to come up with the to-do list. I will probably forget a few things, but this list will get me started (and remind me when I have to do this again in the future). Since I’m doing this for my personal web sites, [...]

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