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Archive for January 10th, 2006

Unknown hostname for Solaris 10 DHCP client

When I installed Solaris 10 x86, my computer thought its hostname was unknown. Aside from being annoying, this seemed to be causing a few issues, so I set about trying to set it to a name of my choice.
Using the uname -S <em>hostname</em> command set the hostname for me but this information didn’t persist [...]

Posted: January 10th, 2006 under Solaris.
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Understanding ‘net lingo

Some time ago, I linked to the parent’s primer to computer slang and the netiquette 101 for new netizens. Well, as I dive ever deeper into the world of the ‘net, I’m constantly coming up against acronyms that I don’t understand and variations on smileys/emoticons that I haven’t seen before. That’s where the Net [...]

Posted: January 10th, 2006 under Useful websites.
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