I personally use Crashplan for my cloud based backups (I have for over a year). I use them because they are one of a few (to be honest the only one) who actually have Solaris installers. The one downside of this is that they do not start the CrashPlanEngine by…
Solaris 11: Defining A Service Using Svcbundle and the SMF
Lately I have been going through an exercise of migrating all of my current services into Solaris 11 (more specifically a zone). I have already been using similar technology on the Linux side, I use OpenVZ with a mix of Linux distributions. However I would like to take advantage of…
Google Galaxy Nexus: Android 4.2 Over The Air Update
The Problem I own both a Google Galaxy Nexus (the phone) and a Google Nexus 7 (the tablet). Both of these devices have served me well in the time I had them. Until the Over-the-Air update for Android 4.2 on my Galaxy Nexus. This really ruined my day. Basically the…
Linux KVM: Ubuntu 12.10 with Openvswitch
Today I am revisiting my previous post on Openvswitch on Ubuntu 12.04. Things have changed since then. Previously Openvswitch was relatively new and as such the userland tools (with libvirt being the one I use) didn’t support it yet, so while you could have used Openvswitch by executing the kvm…