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Solaris 11 Multimedia IPS repository

January 28, 2012 3:45 pm

I’m using the packages from http://solarish.net for mp3 and other media formats.  Thankś a lot guys. Workś well. Only a small glitch with the id3lib as this is already provided by Oracle Solaris.

Add the publisher by:

pkg set-publisher -g http://solarish.net/pkg/i386/ solarish.net

Solaris 11 installed

January 25, 2012 11:18 am

The update from Solaris 11 Express on my laptop (HP Pavillion dm3) went not that smoothly. Mostly conflicts with the multimedia packages from homeunix. So I did a copy of the boot environment, removed all homeunix (multimedia) and OpenSolaris (webstack gui) packages  and than it went well.

Things to do:

  • Adding ntfs support
  • Adding support for mp3
  • Adding postgresql/postgis
  • Installing OpenOffice
  • Installing Netbeans
  • Installing AMP & wordpress

OpenIndiana 151a installed

11:10 am

The installation on my HP Workstation went smooth. With the extra repositories almost everything (multimedia, ntfs support and wordpress) are available.

Some smaller quirks:

NTFS – the missing link:

ln -s /devices/pseudo/fuse@0:fuse /dev/fuse

 

Welcome in the year of the dragon

11:06 am

Dragon in Taiyuan Jinci park

Happy new year to all my friends. All my best wishes. 恭喜发财.

 

Christmas and New Year holidays in Canada

January 3, 2012 9:55 pm

We had some nice Christmas and New Year in Canada with snowboarding and tango.  Just a few impression.

DongXi

December 16, 2011 10:20 am

东西 is on of my  favorite Chinese double character. With a little change of pronunciation  the meaning change from ‘East-West’ to ‘things’.  Is a typical example about to logic in Chinese language.

 

Sextant – Geoinformation with Solaris

1:02 am

Solaris (and his siblings like OpenSolaris and OpenIndiana) is a feature rich and reliable enterprise OS. The features including

  • Role based access management
  • ZFS – an advanced file system tightly connected with volumen and boot management
  • Timeslider – backup management
  • Zones – a lightweight container virtualization

I’m using it at server, workstation as well as on my laptop.

The task is to provide an open-source geoinfrastructure, including spatial database and middleware.

 

 

Welcome

December 15, 2011 8:25 am

This is the blog of Andreas Luka. A landscape designer working in Beijing, the capital of China. You will find soon a part of my design portfolio here, and I like to share my knowledge and experience in the world of GIS and CAD, organizing workflow between GIS, CAD and visualization software.

Sextant is the part  especially with Geoinfrastructure on Solaris-like systems.

Beside my professional life  I like to share my experience as 老外 (laowai – foreigner) and tango dancer in Beijing.