Archive for the 'Unix admin' Category

UltraSparc with 9 Ethernet Ports

Monday, November 6th, 2006

Yes. 9 Ethernet ports. You know you want it.
Out of pure boredom, I was wondering around at a local goodwill store and came across a Sun Microsystems UltraSparc 1 Creator. For those of you that aren’t familiar with these boxes, they’re pizza-box shaped unix computers built in the mid-90s to run Solaris. The box was […]

Mac OS X: re-opened

Wednesday, August 9th, 2006

Hot on the heals of WWDC 2006, Apple recently announced the publishing of Mac OS X’s kernel, xnu, in open-source. The download includes sources for PowerPC as well as Intel builds, and EFI-releated code. Apple is also opening a new forum for open-source collaboration (powered by WordPress, ironically). Additionally, Apple will also be hosting newly […]

LPD: Rumors dispelled

Monday, July 31st, 2006

Do you have a router or server running a unix-like system (BSD, linux, etc)? Would you like clients on your network to be able to print to an attached printer? Are you confused about how to set this up with LPD?