Solid State Disks, a premier

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SSD's are flash based drives (a more advanced version of the one you might find in a digital camera) connected to SATA interfaces. There are no moving parts and hence are faster than HDD's but slower than RAM. SSD's fit in the middle and have benefits of both.

UFIX column in IPS "pkg list" command

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This is something that is not documented. If you do "pkg list" in OpenSolaris 2009.06, there is a column with header "UFIX". This stands for:

Apache unreliable in OpenSolaris 2009.06... workaround available!

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Apache 2.2 (Apache's APR actually) has a bug in the OpenSolaris 2009.06 (including Entic.net's OpenSolaris VPS servers) release. The symptom is the web server goes unresponsive and hangs after some time.

Google censorship or just a bad search engine?

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Our web site makes use of the Yahoo! User Interface, YUI for short. We happened to be searching for a good book on YUI, and we find it interesting that Google Book search lists this book in 20th rank.

DNS traceroute, a technical premier

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Domain names are resolved by DNS name servers. These name servers resolve a given domain name from right to left. When you goto the domain "entic.net", the following queries are done, in order: