Hello Kitty Cake

This years christmas tree

MP3-Player CMX Stringray 4GB

Today I heard the Netbeans Podcast 49 but I didn't finish on the way to work.
So I connected the MP3-Player to my SunRay 1G station which is operating with
SunRay Software 4.0.

It got automatically mounted under /tmp/SUNWut/mnt/

/opt/SUNWut/bin/utdiskadm -l shows the output:

[ewer@sunray2:/]>utdiskadm -l
Device Partition Mount Path
------ --------- ----------
disk1 disk1s2 /tmp/SUNWut/mnt/ewer/noname

The path is accessible and I could play the mp3 file with the Java Media Player.
After listening, I umounted the device and did the "eject":

[ewer@sunray2:/]>utdiskadm -u /tmp/SUNWut/mnt/ewer/noname
[ewer@sunray2:/]>utdiskadm -l
Device Partition Mount Path
------ --------- ----------
disk1 disk1s2
[ewer@sunray2:/]>utdiskadm -r disk1

After this I could unplug the player.

Guitare Cake

using a ramdisk in Solaris/OpenSolaris

Today, I found out, how to create ramdisks in OpenSolaris.
By reading the wiki, which was referenced by the SDN News Blog.

It is really easy.

bash-3.2$ pfexec ramdiskadm -a ramdisk1 100m
/dev/ramdisk/ramdisk1
bash-3.2$ pfexec ramdiskadm -a ramdisk2 100m
/dev/ramdisk/ramdisk2
bash-3.2$ pfexec zpool create rampool mirror /dev/ramdisk/ramdisk1 /dev/ramdisk/ramdisk2
bash-3.2$ zpool status
Pool: fujiUSB
Status: ONLINE
scrub: Keine erforderlich
config:

NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
fujiUSB ONLINE 0 0 0
c6t0d0s7 ONLINE 0 0 0

Fehler: Keine bekannten Datenfehler

Pool: rampool
Status: ONLINE
scrub: Keine erforderlich
config:

NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
rampool ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror ONLINE 0 0 0
/dev/ramdisk/ramdisk1 ONLINE 0 0 0
/dev/ramdisk/ramdisk2 ONLINE 0 0 0

Fehler: Keine bekannten Datenfehler

Pool: rpool
Status: ONLINE
scrub: Keine erforderlich
config:

NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
rpool ONLINE 0 0 0
c3d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0

Fehler: Keine bekannten Datenfehler
bash-3.2$ zfs list | grep rampool
rampool 70,5K 63,4M 18K /rampool

and now destroy the mirrored pool and the ramdisks

bash-3.2$ pfexec zpool destroy rampool
bash-3.2$ pfexec ramdiskadm -d ramdisk1
bash-3.2$ pfexec ramdiskadm -d ramdisk2

It is really that easy, when you know it.

Update patch 1 for NetBeans 6.5 is available

Today it was announced, that the patch 1 update for NetBeans 6.5 is available

It is a two phase update. On the first run, only one update has been found.

First it updates the updater itself and after a restart the remaining updates are
pulled over the network.

I've won the Puzzler of the NetBeans PodCast 47

I've won the puzzler of the Netbeans Podcast 47.


Here you see a photo of me with the price I won. The Rich Client Programming book signed by the Authors Geertjan Wielenga and Jaroslav Tulach.

This Netbeans podcast is produced by some members of the Netbeans-Team in the wonderful city of Prague in the Check Republic.

I've visited the city already 3 times and it was always fantastic.