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Re: Format Excel numbers as GB, MB, KB, B

Flemming Steffensen — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 15:26:41 -0000

Here are the same functions, and more, but all are working in all spreadsheet programs, not only those supporting the TEXT() function as microsoft implement it.

http://fsteff.blogspot.com/201...

Re: Howto resize or shrink UFS partitions

Paul M — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:57:48 -0000

I came here hoping for a shrinkfs (like linux's resize2fs command), since I knew about growfs on solaris.
Sadly, the situation is what I expected, it's a case of copying the file system to a smaller partition ;-(

Re: Format Excel numbers as GB, MB, KB, B

Izzal Ahmed — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:37:36 -0000

You are good

Re: showrev(1M) missing on Solaris 10

ashu — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 03:49:13 -0000

Good.. Just one point..If the packages are still there, just go ahead and install the same packages. As in my case the packages were there but command failing. I went ahead and installed the above mentiones packages and it worked. Thanks for the same.

Re: Howto resize or shrink UFS partitions

John — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 18:26:19 -0000

For that one reference with installgrub, that is specifically for x86.

The stated procedure works for solaris 9 and earlier. I have done it too many times.

My issue is that I have done this with Solaris 10 and /usr does not get mounted. Can someone help?

Re: Format Excel numbers as GB, MB, KB, B

Anunay — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 17:19:43 -0000

or use following custom number format

[<1000000]0.00," KB";[<1000000000]0.00,," MB";0.00,,," GB"

Re: Sparc Solaris 10 Jumpstart Flar DVD – Part 1

Yonah Russ — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:21:18 -0000

Unfortunately I never finished this :(

Re: Sparc Solaris 10 Jumpstart Flar DVD – Part 1

simple — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 03:19:44 -0000

Were the steps for this ever fully completed? I would really like to know the process that was used. Thanks.

Re: RAID 10 vs RAID 5: Performance, Cost, Space, and HA

pyite — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:03:57 -0000

Controller overhead can be a problem with RAID 5. There have been improvements in technology but re-writing a whole stripe for a small write is a nightmare with databases, swap files, maildirs.

Re: Format Excel numbers as GB, MB, KB, B

Antonio — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:38:56 -0000

Amazing post!

Re: Sun SPARC T3 Servers

Mike — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 05:06:39 -0000

Oooooh. Prices are online.

Re: RAID 10 vs RAID 5: Performance, Cost, Space, and HA

Vipin Gpillai — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 06:17:13 -0000

One more thought.. A disk failure in Raid 5 will have more impact over IO when compared to Raid 10 i guess.

Re: Replace faulty disk in SVM mirror

Dima — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:29:05 -0000

thank's . worked again and again

Re: Internet Rimon – First Impressions

Devorah — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:11:12 -0000

I paid for Rimon service six months in advance last week. I called yesterday to have them connect me as directed. After more then 3 harrowing hours on the phone I was unable to speak w/ anyone who spoke basic English (and my Hebrew is not too bad). They were Rude, Abusive, Sarcastic, and worse of all were Unable to Understand me enough to connect me. After speaking to numerous "techs" they also refused to connect me w/ a superior. They make Netvision and their ilk seem civilized. THUMBS DOWN TO RIMON....LOSSERS

Re: Solaris 10 doesn’t find network card

Tarnyko — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:39:59 -0000

Hey, thank you mate ! Your tutorial is pretty detailed and saved me hours of doc-digging.

Re: 32 or 64 bit MySQL

Mike — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:42:58 -0000

I like this one:

pargs -l should give you the full command line which was run:

Re: Cisco ASDM unconnected sockets not implemented

Muehe — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:46:06 -0000

but i would suggest making a favorite

the Cisco ASA web interface should have a link something like this

https://Myfirewall/MyId/public/index.html

make a favorite something like

https://Myfirewall/MyId/public/asdm.jnlp

Re: Sun’s Predicament

Yonah Russ — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:31:41 -0000

The Nehalem processors are a HUGE improvement to previous Intel processors and there is no way I can say that enough. They seriously improve the performance, power consumption, and RAS possibilities. They are the first processor Intel has put out which deserves a place inside enterprise hardware IMO.

That said, Unless an application is single threaded and absolutely needs the faster clock speed, or doesn't support SPARC Solaris, I see no reason to use Intel based HW. Everything else is better on UltraSPARC- OS, server components (even comparing Sun X64 HW to Sun SPARC HW, the SPARC HW is better quality), virtualization, RAS, etc.

Regarding the original topic of this post- I think things are pretty much working out. I'm disappointed that Oracle has discontinued future development of Webstack and I would prefer that their road map work on faster clock speeds in the T3 instead of more threads (At some point it doesn't help to have more threads in a single machine) and lastly, I really hope they don't do anything really drastic in Solaris 11.

Re: Sun’s Predicament

Nick Morris — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:43:41 -0000

Quick question: With Nehalem and now Nehalem EX, does you T5140/T5240 point still hold water? The public needs to know :-)

Re: Cute Site Based on Google

Mike — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:39:34 -0000

Re: Cute Site Based on Google

itzick — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:08:21 -0000

nice one - worse some playing around ..

Re: Sun Oracle Webcast Wrap Up

Neil Williams — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:59:14 -0000

I like your summary. I have a few very similar concerns:
The 'phone home' stuff for example. There is no way my organisation will let our servers phone home to report back diagnostic information. How nice it would be for a hacker to capture how out of date my OS pathches are or my network topology or my mis-configured settings are. ok, ok, I know it would be all encrypted and secure and stuff but it's only secure until you find out it's not secure, so why do it :-)

Secondly I thought OpenSolaris was very conspicuous by it's lack of visibility. But then again if I was Oracle I would dump OpenSolaris as it's essentially the next 'product' that people can pay for. Oracle bought Sun because Oracle made/makes money and Sun didn't!

Re: Internet Rimon – First Impressions

Adam — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:55:41 -0000

Hi Yonah!

I haven't done a lot of research into this but have found the pro con latte firefox plugin useful. In general I just try to steer clear of hazardous zones by going only to urls I know and trust. Open a new tab and click the my roboform passcard for the site I want.

-Adam

Re: EMC Replication Manager in Solaris

Yonah Russ — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:44:26 -0000

Update: http://www.yonahruss.com/stora...

Re: Internet Rimon – First Impressions

Yonah Russ — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:39:10 -0000

For the same reason I'd rather my GPS not plot any routes via PA controlled territory, I'd rather that my Internet not contain pornography or violence or hate propaganda or missionary propaganda, etc. I don't know exactly where the PA territories are and I certainly don't want my error in judgment landing me in the center of Ramallah before I know it so I configure the GPS to keep me out. The same with Internet filtering. I do not want to go to these sites, even by accident, so I use a filter. In addition to educating my children to know what sites are good or bad, I will also educate them to use filtered Internet for themselves.

Filtering the Internet is much more complicated than filtering certain roads from a GPS route so there are bound to be mistakes. Assuming Google's count of 1 Trillion pages from 2008 is still correct today, and that 1 percent of that is pornography, then even a company who filtered 99.999% of all the pornography in the world would have missed 100,000 pages. Some statistics I found put the real number of pornographic web pages at 12% of all the pages on the Internet [source].

Regarding Internet Rimon, I was originally expecting something better than all the other solutions out there. With all the hype about their ground breaking technologies. In reality, I've found that they are nothing special. They don't block everything, and if they block something there are ways to bypass them which I won't publish but they are not complicated. They are annoying in some ways like breaking Google's calculator functionality, and breaking Google site searches embedded in websites. They update themselves, so sometimes old methods of bypassing the filters get closed off but there are always more so I have never actually gone through the process of asking them to open a page which was blocked for no reason.