3D HDTV

The 3D HDTV Age

For those of you who have just dropped a load of money on your 1080P HDTV's. Samsung is out to make that "state of the art" TV obsolete. They are now selling 3D Plasma HDTV's just when the theaters are looking at 3D as a way to get people out of their living rooms and back in line to pay $32 to take a family of four to see a movie (snacks and drinks extra).

Sun's Java Archive

I have found the Sun Archive of old versions of Java very useful when working with legacy java code in a corporate environment.

Vi Tricks

So after 20 years of working on UNIX I am just now finding the need to learn more than the basics of VI. (Yes I have been a emacs person for many many years.)

 1,$s/oldstring/newstring/g  

Linux Devices

I just found the Linux Devices page while doing a search for something else. Thought it was cool enough to "bookmark" here.

Checking Network Settings on Solaris

Another item of Solaris system administration I can't easily find documented. This needs to be done as root to get correct results.
Step 1

 User@Machine{4} ifconfig -a
lo0: flags=1000849 mtu 8232 index 1
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
dmfe0: flags=1000843 mtu 1500 index 2
        inet 192.68.79.55 netmask ffffffe0 broadcast 192.68.79.xxx

To get the device name dmfe0.

Step 2

user@Machine # /usr/sbin/ndd -get /dev/dmfe0 link_speed
100

user@Machine #  /usr/sbin/ndd -get /dev/dmfe0 link_mode
1

Which translates to 100Mbit Full Duplex. If the link_mode had returned 0 it would be half duplex.

Finding Installed Memory on Solaris 10

Even after 20 minutes of google searches I couldn't find a command to give the amount of installed memory on a Solaris machine. So I'm posting the solution here for safe keeping.

Use the command:

 /usr/sbin/prtdiag | head 

It should give output that looks like this:

# /usr/sbin/prtdiag | head
System Configuration: Sun Microsystems  sun4u Sun Fire V240
System clock frequency: 167 MHZ
Memory size: 2GB

There are still lines for the Wii

Article on Yahoo about how hard it is to get a Wii.

"You see it and you want it. Kind of like the iPhone," said Robert Marcus, waiting to buy a Wii with his wife and three young sons.

That quote makes you wonder if an iPhone will be the same way.