Posts from ‘October, 2008’

So I had my machine idling there, while I was doing some paper work (i.e. bills), noticing that the disks make a short ruckus periodically. Trying to find out what it was, I dtraced my system.
Turns out that Firefox seems to maintain a temporary SQLite database, which holds a copy your browsing history. That database [...]

If you’re in need of Linux emulation for whatever reason under Solaris, you’ve an existing mechanism at hand called BrandZ. The seemingly supported distros however are CentOS 3/4 and 5. Kind of antique. Stuff like Ubuntu or various other distros don’t seem to work. However if you really need an updated userland, try Fedora 9.
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I’ve tried to build the source from scratch and hacked the configure file in various ways, nothing helped. I’m not sure what the problem is, it looks like the C# compiler in the Mono Lite package freaking out for some reason. To actually build it properly, you have to have an existing working C# compiler. [...]