Late breaking news – Usenix is running some tutorials at the SANS 2007 conference in San Diego, and I’ll be teaching two of my workshops there. Here are the links for more information.
March 29 Solaris 10 Administration Workshop
March 30 Solaris 10 Security Workshop
Hope to see you there…
Posts from ‘January, 2007’
Teaching a SANS 2007
Nexenta within Parallels on Mac OS X 10.4.8
This is rather esoteric, but I’ve seen posts asking for a solution to this problem so thought I’d document my experience here.
Problem – Trying to install Nexenta (Elatte) Alpha 6 within Parallels on the Mac. Nexenta is an open source distribution of Solaris that has the Solaris Nevada kernel and the Debian userland. It installs [...]
My Course Handout for the Solaris 10 Administration Workshop Course
Pardon the large .pdf file, here are the course materials that I hand out to the students of my Solaris 10 Administration Workshop course. This year I’m teaching this course for both USENIX and the SANS 2007 conference. This particular handout is from the Dec 2006 USENIX LISA conference. Feedback welcome.
My Course Handout for the Solaris 10 Security Workshop Course
Also, here are the course materials that I hand out to the students of my Solaris 10 Security Workshop course. I’m teaching this course for both USENIX and the SANS 2007 conference. This particular handout is from the Dec 2006 USENIX LISA conference. Feedback welcome.
Great Music Concert Websites
I’m a fan of live music. Finding high quality, legally download-able (or at least stream-able) concert audio recordings is a rare treat. If you similarly like good live music free, check out these sites:
Wolfgang’s Vault Concert Vault – sound board recordings of many great 80s and 90s acts, streaming only.
NPR’s All Songs Considered – see [...]
Random Thought
Have you noticed that almost always, contacting a company’s support organization results in a return email or phone hold message stating that the company is experiencing higher the expect volumes of communications?
If they are always receiving high volumes, should they start expecting that? And shouldn’t they do something about it?!
Also, I don’t recall ever hearing [...]
No Paid Endorsements
Just for the record, I will accept no payments to promote any product, service, or web site in my blog. If I do receive a product for free or on loan I’ll make that clear.
NEOSUG Kickoff Meeting
Sun Microsystems has evolved from a company based on a closed-source proprietary operating system to one based on an open source operating system with a burgeoning community. These operating systems are one-in-the-same – Solaris. OpenSolaris is the non-commercial, open source distribution of Solaris. (Of course Sun still has its commercial Solaris for those wanting support.)
In [...]
About Me
Hi there, and thanks for checking out my blog. I’m Peter Galvin (also known as Peter Baer Galvin because there is another Peter Galvin that writes in technology).
I’m Chief Technologist of Corporate Technologies for my day job, where we sell data center products and provide consulting services around them. Our selection of data [...]
Hello World.
“Hello World.“
Hello World is the traditional first communication with the outside world from a new programmer. I’m stretching its use a bit but it felt appropriate for my first blog entry. It’s about time that I embraced this ”new“ medium!