Is it lame that I’ve spent my Saturday morning installing, patching and customizing Solaris 9 on my UltraSparc?

I’ve got a sweet setup. Sun has started including this “Software Companion” CD , and I normally just chuck it. But in the Solaris 9 package, it includes a TON of useful, cool software: squid, mySQL, Berkeley DB, various cool libraries, gcc, GNU utilities like gtar and gawk and just a ton of stuff that I’d probably have to go download later. It’s saving me a ton of time.

Plus, Solaris 9 comes with OpenSSH, samba, Apache and a bunch of other cool features, so I don’t have to screw around with that either. It’s pretty deluxe. The patches are taking FOREVER to install, however.

The coolest thing about Solaris 9: the df -h command (h stands for “human,” as in readable by humans):

1. df -kh Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 40G 2.9G 37G 8% / /proc 0K 0K 0K 0% /proc mnttab 0K 0K 0K 0% /etc/mnttab fd 0K 0K 0K 0% /dev/fd swap 446M 104K 446M 1% /var/run swap 467M 22M 446M 5% /tmp

   Isn’t that MUCH BETTER?

   Another question: does anybody think I’ll have any problems running Oracle 8i on an Ultrasparc 5? I know it’s a might box, but Oracle is one hell of a beast I suppose if I really want to screw around with Oracle I should do what everybody else does and get an Ultra2 off of eBay, but I’ve already got 5 computers running in this house, I certainly don’t need another. The basement is about to become a data center.

   Shit, I’m a geek.

   On the bright side, I’m going to a wedding this afternoon and priming the pump for the next big event: BETTIE SERVEERT AT THE EARL!

   YES!