Future of OpenSolaris

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Interesting little thread about the Sun/Oracle version of OpenSolaris distribution.

Sleeping with the iPhone... and now iPad

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Quite a lot of people goto bed with their iPhone. It's nice and small and tucks away under the pillow. It's there to wake us up, and it's there telling us what to eat and when and where. It's there during our commute hours. It's there during our best friend's wedding, taking photos and recording moments.

ZFS: Instant "online" Backups

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We had several web sites hosted by lighttpd on a single server. We wanted to make on-line backups of them, something we've procrastinated a long time! Once you see how simple it is to make online backups of your data with our OpenSolaris VPS ZFS file system, we hope you won't follow the same path as …

Apache log rotation

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One of the easiest things to do to save disk space (and our costs, and ultimately, yours) is to be sure to rotate apache logs. This is very simple to do in Apache and our OpenSolaris VPS servers.

Tomcat and OpenSolaris... OutOfMemoryError

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This doesn't apply to just Tomcat, but we'll use Tomcat as an example. If get Java heap size errors along with those nasty OutOfMemoryError exceptions, here's what you need to do.