Solaris - Tales from the past

$ uname -s
SunOS
$ grep Copyright `which clear`
#       Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T
#       Copyright (c) 1987, 1988 Microsoft Corporation

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Global Financial Crisis

All I can say, leverage off it!

Gran Torino

"Get off my lawn!!"

Great move, Clint's kept both his directing and acting tempos at his fine levels.

The Ascent of Money

Channel 4 has brought out an interesting BBC style documentary/series covering the history of money, financial markets and evolution of economies. Was quite surprised at the sheer selection of the topics covered, even the obscure and often rarely heard of Jacob Rothchild was interviewed. All up of 6 episodes are well worth the watch...

Dr Strangelove

Thumbs up for Dr Strangelove. This is one of those rare movies that manages to be political, serious and funny all at the same time... Given the year it was released in 1964 & some of the lesser known facts it portraits [1] [2], I can only imagine how simply outright it was about the whole political context back then. I'd rate this as the 2nd best movie Kubrick directed, right after the timeless classic of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Llorca

"...There is, you must recall, a kind of serious study that will give you the confidence to strike your match to the mighty wick that will illuminate yet another portion of the darkness..."

More useful than it looks

sengork's out of here...

43°20′N, 17°48′E

Sengork's General Tool Set

Finally an update to the list. A number of additions and modifications since the last update. No links or particular explanations to them this time, just google 'em.

These are the tools I use on daily basis & have installed on pretty much all PCs I encounter. And they're also responsible for my, at times excessive, Windows usage.

(In no particular order or category)

• Total Commander Ultima Prime distribution - my recent favourite, very handy. Not a tool but a set of very handy and integrated tools, no bloat - only functionality
• PuTTY - I think I've opened this app more times than any other
• gVIM - essential
• Cygwin - Because I often need to find/grep/awk/sed/bash on Windows
• NetTransport - Old habits die hard
• uTorrent - This is how software should be...
• WinRipper - I like extracting music out of apps
• GkrellM - Not just because it looks fancy
• CPU-z
• Opera - Best web browser out there
• AVG Free
• BartPE - Who said only Linux had boot CDs?
• nLite - Automate, slipstream & customise - because Windows will need to be reinstalled lots of times
• WinAMP - Thanks to Lycos' foolishness I'm not using Sonique anymore
• VLC - Because there's too many codecs to keep track of and it doesn't matter how classy the app looks when you use it for watching videos in 'full screen'!
• Power Toys for XP
• PeerGuardian
• The GIMP
• WinRAR
• OneWorld Time
• PowerOff
• Xming
• VMware Server - Best and most useful application concept that's come out in absolute ages
• GameArena - The Arena - Used less and less thanks to Steam
• WordWeb
• Unlocker
• SuperScan
• Nmap - Not just because it's been spotted in The Matrix
• Y'z dock
• TCPview
• Process Explorer
• Resource Hacker
• WinSCP
• VNC - I was always surprised how such an excellent idea for software's so little known of
• FreeNX - Faster than VNC/X11 for interactive usage, not mature yet though
• Knoppix Live DVDs
• Slackware (my favourite Linux distribution)
• Daemon Tools - Because mounting a simple ISO should not be a 'big hassle'
• DVD Shrink - There's a reason why it's author now works for Nero
• QuickPar
• Network Stumbler
• ffdshow
• WinHTTrack
• ZoneAlarm - Granted I've not bothered to check out Comodo yet
• PortableApps
• PDFCreator
• Toucan

Version: 1.5

Solar Driftwood / Beyond Mirrors

Best intro & ending to an album ever (from Yello's Pocket Universe album). Not an official video clip, but the sounds the essential part.

CS:S Stats

Slackware user friendliness

$ man wtf

Max Payne was here

This will be a spoiler to reboot

$ uptime

6:38pm up 2587 day(s), 10:22, 5 users, load average: 0.05, 0.02, 0.02

Time flies..

It's been ages since I've hopped onto HL:DM Source which I used to play for long enough to climb up to 13th place (Alias /MegA/). One thing I didn't realise is how long ago this has now been, almost 2 years! Initially it seemed like just a few months ago I'd been on it.  But wrong assumptions often lead to wrong conclusions... Nevertheless QuickSilver's spookface is a rather memorable map. Quite glad to see some local folk still playing the game. It helps to have opponents with similar ping (~200ms).  ;)

For now playing CSS, DoD. I've not even touched RTCW:ET for a while now, which probably had it's impact on our clan's GameArena results (currently on 17th spot).

Steam Stats

This is what excessive and intermittent work hours & consequential stress end up causing:

*nix

My long held comparison views on the commercial non-Intel Midrange UNIX OSes out there based on my own experiences & expectations, being as generalistic as possible:

AIX >> ( Linux/*BSD > Solaris > HP-UX )

Now the amount of each I've seen out there which has been or is being deployed:

Solaris >> ( Linux/*BSD > AIX > HP-UX )

(Where > is greater than and >> is much greater than).

Naturally combine Veritas software with any one of the above greatly puts the OS it self out of the bigger picture within Midrange. HP-UX seems to be going out of the door for a while now.

On the other hand SANs and Virtualisation seem to be in the spotlight these days more so that any OS out there. OS has largey become something that simply makes all the hardware work together to run the App/DB. 

Now if I could only run AIX on something that's not a pSeries... Can run Solaris within VMware quite well, but AIX, no such luck even with AIX 6 Open Beta & PearPC...