With 30 minutes to prepare and another 25 minutes to actually perform this mere point update (12.3 > 12.4), what – exactly – is a relatively modern Macbook Pro that’s capable of of writing to it’s boot disk at 2.2GB/s+ doing when it upgrades?
Category Archives: Tech
VMware Tools for Debian 10 / Ubuntu 20.04 arm64 on ESXi-Arm
This is a pretty good set of instructions for setting up VMware Tools for Debian 10/Ubuntu 20.04 arm64 on ESXi-Arm.
Old Solaris Patches (Sunsite Mirrors)
sunsite.icm.edu.pl looks to be an old mirror of the pre-Oracle Sunsites. It’s quite useful for patches for older Solaris releases.
To get Internet Explorer 5.0 for Unix (Sparc) running on the Sparc release of Solaris 7 I ended up using:
108376-46: OpenWindows 3.6.1: Xsun Patch (Patch File)
106327-23: SunOS 5.7: 32-Bit Shared library patch for C++ (Patch File)
106950-24: SunOS 5.7: Linker Patch (Patch File)
And voila! Internet Explorer 5.0 for Unix running on the Sparc release of Solaris 7.0
Raspberry Pi with PCIe
The Raspberry Pi 4 is out! And I’m not going to buy one because A) revision zero is buggered, B) the load this site produces on it’s current 3B+ host is functionally zero (so there’s very little point in upgrading it) and C) I’m currently far too busy to do any pottering around with one outside of that.
However other people have and they’ve started playing around with the new PCIe bus – even going as far as desoldering the USB controller and adding a PCIe riser.
Which is very neat indeed.