September 22, 2007: Surprise Day of Work

No sleeping in for me today. I had to be up before eight this morning so that I could log in and work “at the office”. I have a bit of scheduled work this morning so I won’t be doing anything exciting today. I ended up working from before eight until well after six in …

Mounting ISO Files on Linux

Often these days, especially when working with operating system downloaded ISO images, it would be handy to be able to work directly with the contents of the ISO files rather than to burn them to CD and place them physically into a CDROM drive. Sometimes this is because the machine that you are working with …

Easy NFS Sharing on Solaris 10

If there is one service made easy with Solaris it is NFS. Originally developed and designed by SUN NFS is the industry standard UNIX file sharing mechanism today and is likely to remain the dominant player for some time due to its ubiquity, openness, time proven protocol, simplicity and ease of management not to mention …