I just cleared up a linker problem building a recent ntop release on Solaris 8. Previously, the linker would barf on OpenSSL libssl.a with some undefined sysmbols that it should have picked up in libcrypto.a. I hacked the configure-supplied Makefile and added a second "-lcrypto" to the end of the LIBS section, and Solaris ld magically picked up the stuff it should have acquired from the first -lcrypto in the list.

I am a Solaris admin by trade, whic leads me to peek at what the market chatter has to say about SUNW. I'm concerned about Bill Joy leaving Sun. He's a really smart guy, and that's never a good sign for a company. That makes me wonder, looking on the bright side of things, where Bill Joy is going next. That leads me to this old Wired article: Why the Future Doesn't Need Us by Bill.

It is time to open discussion on the topic of reforming the US legal definition of a corporation. Lets pick up the questions, consider them heavily, and decide what should be done.

Why bother? I suggest that the status quo makes this line of inquiry interesting. To discover our questions, lets ponder the situation at-hand.

Now that it's obvious we don't have WoMD in Iraq, and that G.W. was simply going along with Rumsfeld's fantastic adventure, we have to take full responsibility for the situation. Conceded that our elected officials and their advisory underlings want to set up an arab puppet-state in the Middle East, the devil is in the details, and we still need to know HOW we want them to go about the process.

Empty factories to the east and all our waste,
The shape of things that came shows on the broken worker's face.
To the west you'll find our silicon promised land where machines
relace our minds for systematic profit plans.
The course of human progress staggers like a drunk-
Its steps are quick and heavy and its mind is slow and blunt.
I look for optimism but I just don't know.
Its seeds are planned in a poison place where nothing grows.
It's 1989 stand up and take a lo

Yesterday, I spent a 16 hour day at work trying to get 2 boxes to an identical install with SDS root disk mirroring. Oh the grief! Maybe I can save someone else a little pain!

I feel bad for Microsoft. There are a lot of real people working for that company who have been led to believe that what they are doing is good for people. More and more they will recieve disheartening news that something they were involved in caused massive problems.

This graph is intended to answer "Temperature Issues (Score:5) by limekiller4 (451497) on Sat 04 Jan 04:47AM (#5013569). Please post comments there. :).

Odds of marketing a product to consumers
by ability to achieve cold temperatures.

I got the sparcv9 build of Apache2, PHP4, and MySQL 3.23.5x running on Solaris 8.

Now I want myodbc so I can use OpenOffice on my TiBook OS 10.2.2 to administer the backend of my A/P/M triad on the Solaris box.

Problem: The OSX iodbc driver doesn't want to load the myodbc3.dylib. OS-X otool likes it just fine. iODBC rejects it before even calling dyld. Nothing in Google to help me out... :(

I'm trying to bootstrap gcc-3.2.1 on Solaris 8. The testsuite is not building. Crap. I just found out that gcc-3.1.1 blows up running from a DiskSuite stripe set. Data keeps getting fed into the compile stream from the preprocessor PAST THE END OF THE FILE!!!! Crap.

grumble

grumble

I want to build a sparcv9 Apache/PHP/MySQL package.

Crap.