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| bio | website | blogs.oracle.com/alanc |
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| location | California | |
| age | 39 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 9 months |
| seen | 1 hour ago | |
| stats | profile views | 41 |
Software engineer at Sun Oracle working on the X Window System for Solaris, OpenSolaris, and Linux. Active member of the X.Org community.
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1h |
awarded | Civic Duty |
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May 16 |
answered | Studio 12.3: language optional software package not installed |
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May 5 |
comment |
How can I disable /proc pseudo-filesystem on a shared Linux environment? For Solaris, see How to Limit Display of Other User's Processes to configure which users can see what other users are doing. |
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May 5 |
awarded | Informed |
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Apr 11 |
comment |
Triple compression and I only save 1% in space? bzip will compress the original tar much better than it can compress an already gzipped tar file. |
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Apr 6 |
comment |
How do I get current keyboard layout?-query was added in setxkbmap 1.2.0 |
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Mar 1 |
awarded | Announcer |
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Feb 28 |
comment |
Solaris default install (user tools) On Solaris 11, vim is the default vi now. |
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Feb 2 |
comment |
Browser fails to reach any host on Solaris 8 Have you tried using traceroute to some of those IP addresses to see where the failure occurs? |
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Jan 22 |
comment |
What happened to the GLP OpenGL extension? Chadversary answered two of the three questions (are there any alternatives? similar developments today?), for the other one (What happened to GLP?) I have old private mail from one of the Sun engineers involved in which he said they proposed GLP to the OpenGL ARB, but the ARB chose EGL to standardize on instead. |
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Jan 12 |
revised |
Could not perform immediate configuration on 'libstdc++6' on Nexenta edited tags |
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Dec 27 |
answered | How to get notified when svcadm restarts a service that died |
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Dec 20 |
answered | Why are the UIDs in Solaris so very high? Is it alright to use lower numbers? |
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Dec 19 |
awarded | Custodian |
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Dec 19 |
reviewed | Reviewed Why are the UIDs in Solaris so very high? Is it alright to use lower numbers? |
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Oct 12 |
comment |
Equivalent of date --reference in Solaris There is a stat command in Solaris 11, but then if you have Solaris 11, there is also the simpler solution of just using /usr/gnu/bin/date. |
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Oct 11 |
answered | Filesystem type on Solaris 5.10 |
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Oct 5 |
answered | What is keeping Wayland from overthrowing X in Linux? |
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Sep 6 |
answered | Solaris SPARC 10 32bit mode |
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Sep 4 |
answered | What are the dangers of setting a high limit to max File Descriptors per process? |
