Published on February 3rd, 2009 in OtherBecause I installed OpenSolaris only with its Core Packages, flarcreate was missing. The script is included in the SUNWinst package, which can be easily installed from the installation CD or DVD.
1. Mount the media
2. Change to following folder:
/Solaris_11/Product
3. Now execute “pkgadd -d . SUNWinst”
This applies to older versions of Solaris as well.
Published on November 2nd, 2008 in Linux, Mac OS X, OtherNote: This will only work on UNIX hosts.
1. Create your private/public key pair, which will create a private key in ~/.ssh/id_rsa a public one in ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub:
# ssh-keygen -t rsa
2. Now copy your public key over to the remote host:
# scp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub username@remote-host.com:~
# ssh username@remote-host.com
# cat ~/id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
3. You’re done! You can now access [...]
Published on May 9th, 2008 in OtherOpenSolaris 2008.05, also called Project Indiana has been released more than a week ago and shows where Solaris’ future is headed to. It comes on a 650MB ISO image, containing a live cd. So you can even test it on real hardware before installing it. If you’re not familiar with OpenSolaris yet, I suggest you [...]
Published on October 14th, 2007 in OtherI always wanted to dig into Subversion and start using it productively. So I bought myself a book from German publisher Galileo Computing. After reading it, I was still confused and missed a few important basics (thanks to the book, it totally sucked!). So after half a year or so, I decided to give Subversion [...]
Published on April 18th, 2007 in OtherFreelanceswitch.com has posted what has to be the biggest list of Freelancing Job Sites to date. So if you’re looking for a job or need someone to work on a job, take a look at it here.
Published on April 13th, 2007 in Linux, Other, UbuntuWhile trying to install and configure VMWare Workstation on my new Ubuntu Desktop, i received the following error message:
“None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Workstation is suitable for your running kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon module for your system (you need to have a C compiler [...]
Published on February 27th, 2007 in Best of, Other, Ubuntu, WebThe openssl toolkit is typically used to generate an RSA Private Key and a CSR (Certificate Signing Request). But it can also be used to generate self-signed certificates which can be used for testing purposes or internal usage.
Step 1: Generate a Private Key
The first step is to create your RSA Private Key. This key is [...]
Published on August 8th, 2006 in OtherThis post is a bit off topic, but since it’s from my home town, Basle (that’s in Switzerland if you wondered), I decided to post it anyway. It is remotely technical though.
Switzerland has had a long tradition of modern design and Basle is host to a few of the biggest exhibitions world wide. For example, [...]
Published on August 6th, 2006 in OtherAs most people know who care about Apple, tomorrow marks the start of Apple’s yearly Worldwide Developer Conference. If you wanted to attend it, but just won’t make it to San Francisco by tomorrow (like me who’s sitting in Switzerland and can’t afford a expensive airline ticket and a hotel room for a week), there [...]
Published on June 17th, 2006 in Best of, Java, OtherYou gotta be kidding right? Well, I’m not. And this could become something big and meaningful. It could win over a few million people over to the Java platform. But first things first:
As Visual Basic 6 gets older and older, more and more problems start to appear. Microsoft stopped supporting it, hoping most developers would [...]
