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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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