I have been fighting for quite some time to get Solaris 10 installed and working properly under VMwae Fusion 1.1 on an Intel Core 2 Duo Mac. I think this is an interaction problem between VMware Fusion and Solaris 10. Even if you tell VMware Fusion that you want to install Solaris in 32-bit mode, [...]

Disclaimer: What I’m describing in this post is not new. Much on the contrary, it is well known and understood, but I wanted to document this because it can be a little bit confusing if you are used to System V, like Sun’s Solaris.
Depending on whether you are using a BSD-like or System V-like systen, [...]

Recently I purchased two external USB hard-drives, one from LACIE and another one from IOMEGA, that I plugged into one of my Linux workstations. I wanted these drives to be auto-mounted during boot, so I created a couple of entries in /etc/fstab. The problem is that, somehow, the Linux kernel is not always able to [...]