Solaris Performance ToolsCD 3.0 available online

I got this news from Sun Blog (thanks - Stefan). This is what I have been looking for !

You can download it directly from here.

Here a brief description (from the Su Blog)

At Sun, for our customers and partners, the Solaris Performance ToolsCD is a well known project of the Frankfurt benchmark center since 1999. This collection of (public domain) tools on a CD enables you to analyze on optimize Sun systems. The tools are used and maintained on a daily basis during our benchmark projects. The CD covers as well many information and links to performance related literature.
This is the fourth release of the ToolsCD with the focus on Solaris 10 support for SPARC and x86/x64 based Sun systems.

The CD covers within 300 MB:

• dimSTAT v8.1 - collect and analyze performance data

• Dtrace Tools - Brendan Gregg's collection of Dtrace scripts

• K9Toolkit - freeware tools written using the KStat library on a Solaris 9

• sysperfstat - displays utilization and saturation for CPU, memory, disk and network, all on one line.

• cpuinfo - displays CPU configuration (number, type, clock and strands)

• meminfo - displays configuration of physical memory and swap devices or files

• iobar - displays io for disk-devices in a |cpubar|-like fashion

• iotop - displays |iostat -x| in a |top|-like fashion

• checkcable - prints the link up status for network interfaces

• nicstat - prints statistics for the network interfaces such as KBytes/s read and write, Packets/s etc.

Upgrade to Hardy Heron

UBuntu Hardy Heron Beta have been released ! The final release of Hardy will be end of April 2008 based on UBuntu 6 months release cycle !

To upgrade to Hardy Beta , I refer to this website as initial guide. I really the new background image for Hardy ! What a beauty !

Happy upgrade !

p/s
My wireless network is not working after the upgrade and its look like ipw9345 is being removed ! Shit !

VirtualBox v1.5.6 on UBuntu Gutsy

Solaris 10 is installing on VirtualBox v1.5.6. I am installing Solaris 10 using ISO image instead using the normal DVD.

Creating VirtualBox disk for guest OS is pretty straightforward. I am impressed with VirtualBox GUI. Damn simple !

You can grab a copy of the VirtualBox End User documentation from here

Let see how the performance of VirtualBox as compared to VMware. VMWare performance on my laptop is quite unpleasant when running both Window 2000 and Solaris 10.

Cube

I just love the CUBE !

VirtualBox on UBuntu Gutsy

I have been trying to install Solaris 10 on Ubuntu Gutsy using VirtualBox but it never go beyond this stage ...

Having searching around for clue , I decided to use the latest version of VirtualBox (v1.5.6) instead on v1.5.0.

Downloading it now and let hope it works !

Installation is pretty easy and instruction can be found here.

Update :
If you have installed the old version of VirtualBox (v1.5.0) , please do remove it first before installing the v1.5.6.

 # apt-get remove virtualbox-ose 

Nikon D40x

I bought a digital camera in Japan recently. The model is Nikon D40x. I am not a good photographer and absolutely ZERO knowledge about anything about digital camera especially digital SLR. I have a lot of colleagues who are more knowledgeable than me and sometime I just hang around them to learn a bit here and there.

Every gadgets I bought I will definitely try to connect it and access it from Linux.

1. Using USB Mass Storage

I expected this to work on Ubuntu Gutsy but unfortunately it did not because of this bug.
There is a patch available for but it is not available now as an update yet plus I am too lazy to recompile a new kernel recently.

2. Using the built-in MMC slot

My laptop had a MMC card reader. Inserted the card and voila ! Only problem is you have to take out the card from the camera.

Google just released Picassa v2.7 for Linux and installation is simple.

Gnome Bluetooth

I have a Sony Ericsson P1i and I used this phone to snap a lot of pictures. Since as usual there is no Linux version of Sony Ericsson Management software, I need to transfer all these photos to my laptop. So the faster way is Bluetooth.

On UBuntu Gutsy, it is very easy. Just install the Gnome Bluetooth package and run the application from Applications -> Accessories -> Bluetooth File Sharing, turn on bluetooth on both side (laptop & phone). Simple as that !

As root :

# sudo apt-get install gnome-bluetooth