Nine Inch Nails - The Slip - free music

As you know Trent Reznor went all "open source this, free download that" so you can just grab torrents with .flac or directly download the mp3 versions of his latest album:

http://theslip.nin.com/

You can even grab a 1.2GB better-than-CD-quality 24bit 96kHz audio file.

You can also grab 9 tracks off his Ghosts album and some pretty neat bundled wallpapers and extra content.

Dirty Java makes 70 people sick

At a Sun JavaOne conference in San Francisco apparently got infected with a norovirus that causes nausea, vomiting and diarrhea...
Bummer.

Marian Vanghelie - Bucharest Mayor's Site hacked

Marian Vanghelie, mayor of Bucharest's personal website:



You see this sort of thing more and more these days..



And again, that's what people get for running something like Apache/2.0.51 (Fedora) PHP/4.4.7 mod_ssl/2.0.51 OpenSSL/0.9.7a and probably some ancient SQL with a badly coded website. Please, stop letting children write your website in PHP...

It also looks like it's been like this for quite some time... heh.

OpenBSD 4.3 has been released

OpenBSD 4.3 has been released.

• Changelist
  
• Mirror list.
• Patches
• Upgrade Guide
• FAQ
  

Convert NRG images to ISO images (nrg2iso) using dd

If you want to convert Nero "nrg" images to ISO format to mount or burn you can either use nrg2iso, or just use dd to skip the 300k header (will work just fine for DAO images):

dd if=image.nrg of=image.iso bs=4096 skip=75

Solaris SnapUpgrade - LiveUpgrade replacement for ZFS root.

Apparently, LiveUpgrade won't be opensourced, or included in "Indiana", but there is a ZFS aware replacement in the works:

BE Utility for Snap Upgrade

The BE utility is the user interface for managing Boot Environments and is the replacement for the Live Upgrade commands (luupgrade(1M), lucreate(1M)...) This utility is intended to be used by System Administrators who want to manage multiple Solaris Instances on a single system. The BE utility will be implemented with ZFS support only, however a migration path from UFS to ZFS will also be supported but not in the Spring release.

Solaris 10 update 5 Released

Solaris 10 5/08 has been released.

Windows 2008 Server Backup

I must say I'm quite pleased with the new Windows 2008 Server backup. A full backup of the system disk (Windows 2008 Enterprise and a few tools, about 15GB uncompressed with 3GB of SWAP. Windows Backup shows the volume as using 14GB) takes 6 minutes. Overall, a great effort, considering I'm doing this over a Firewire 400 connection.



And the backup is done:



A larger backup:

Hyper-V - Windows 2008 Virtualization

Can't say Hyper-V is much fun. It seems to fail in spectacular ways when it comes to running non-Windows operating systems. FreeBSD 7 (AMD64 and i386) builds fail to boot, OS/2, eComStation and QNX fail to install (QNX 4 installs, but fails to boot after), Solaris 10 doesn't get past the GRUB screen (at least in the 10 minutes I've waited) and other operating systems experience strange issues:

QNX in Hyper-V:


OpenBSD install:


Though OpenBSD did install after all:



So far, it seems that VMware Server (or ESX) is a safer choice. Even though it's probably possible to get some of these systems installed with some tuning, I wasn't all that pleased with graphical performance either. The Debian installer for example was very sluggish.

And it seems to crash quite often:



Still, the version in Windows 2008 RTM is actually Hyper-V RC0, so I'll wait for a release version to come out before bothering with it anymore.

Project Etude - The Solaris 8 Migration Assistant now free

Project Etude - that lets you run Solaris 8 Containers (Zones) is now free.
Announcement here. Solaris 9 containers will also be available.

The project has been renamed into Solaris 8 Migration Assistant.