Friday, May 30, 2008

Maybe Some Ice Cream With That OpenSolaris

Well, the pickles and beer in the refrigerator were not enough to bribe my Ferrari into installing OpenSolaris.  Maybe some Ice Cream will coax it into behaving better.  Luckily, the cleaning people empty out the freezer on the last Friday of the month at 2:00pm (which is today!), leaving plenty of room for...




Props to Will Young for claiming to have done something like this first. ;-)

Not Too Much Mustard on That Ferrari Please

My Acer Ferrari 3400 cannot go through an OpenSolaris installation without overheating and powering itself down.  Because OpenSolaris has no power management for this laptop, the CPU runs at 100% clock rate 100% of the time, which isn't a problem for other OSs.

Luckily, the Ferrari has no problems sharing a cramped space with mustard, pickes, left-over Chinese food, and a beer.  Ferrari 3400, meet OpenSolaris 2008.05: