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Non-solaris info: (Just cause ABit doesnt seem to have a download site any more) If youre looking for a user manual for the ABit BP6, download it here
For recovering Disksuite or Veritas Volumns, Sun has finally released some tools to let you boot off the net and recover them. They call them the Rapid Recovery tools. PS: You can download disksuite 4.2.1 for free if for some reason you dont have it yet.
If you still have to support the M$ clients, & M$-calendaring:
- InSight Connector (commercial)
- ProChange (open source, in progress)
On the other hand, if you can go "legacy-free", you might consider these other, FREE alternatives:
- TWIG, a web-based, FREE email/"groupware" suite written in php, is at http://twig.screwdriver.net/
- PHPgroupware can be previewed and downloaded from http://www.phpgroupware.org.
TWIG has seniority. However, phpgroupware looks nicer, and has multiple "themes"(?) to chose from.
PhProjekt is a free PHP-based project management tool. If you are specifically looking for project management software, it is more fully featured than the "ToDo" module of phpGroupware. Not to mention that you can run the demo without enabling javascript.
If you have Solaris sparc, you'll probably be happy with adobe's acroread. However, for some unfathomable reason, the solx86 version has a huge memory leak in it, so you'll be interested in hearing about alternatives.One obvious alternative is using xpdf. However, it does not handle all PDF options like something straight from Adobe.
One option now is the java reader from Adobe, Acrobat Viewer. The good news is, the java version renders okay, and has the search feature in it. The only thing missing is PageUp/PageDown key support. The interesting thing is that for a 5 page .PDF, the binary "acroread" uses 17 megs, but the java version only uses 21 megs of ram.
NOTE: When they say "java1.1.8", they are not kidding. It will not run properly with more recent versions. Sigh. So be sure to use /usr/java1.1/bin/java as the runtime.
The bad news: the stupid ZeroG "Launch Anywhere" stuff is really, really lame. Once you have run the installer script to install to /opt/AcroView, you can then make a simpler script to run it, like the following:
This makes the other "lax" junk in that directory unneccessary.#!/bin/sh /usr/java1.1/bin/java -classpath /opt/AcroView/acrobat.jar \ -ms33554432 -mx134217728 com.adobe.acrobat.Viewer $@
Speaking of book type things, the O'Reilly Motif Programing books are now freely available for download.
Bluefish is an HTML editor that is recommended by quite a few people.
Feeling left out of AOL instance messaging? They dont seem to publicise
that they have a
java version! It's
called "QuickBuddy".
Unfortunately, they made it launch with javascript, so here's the
Direct start page.
You need a "direct" connection. The java version does not work through
proxies. It does work through NAT, though.
I recommend using it with appletviewer. That way it doesnt drag down your
browser. eg:
/usr/java1.1/bin/appletviewer http://toc.oscar.aol.com/tic.html
A list of other drivers (mostly vendor drivers, without source) can be found on the solarisonintel mailing list ISV/IHV database pages
But here's some other games I specifically like:
NOTE!!! xmms1.2.7 and earlier has problems playing full shoutcast
files.
Chopping off the file part of the url seems to work. eg:
http://server/file.pls becomes
http://server/
If you would like to actually see all those damn "EMBED"ed movies in browsers more easily...; try installing Plugger. It's a neat tool that lets you tell netscape, "Go play that 'embedded' stuff in an external window" (So not only do you get to see it, but you're less crash-prone now, too)
Speaking of movies, http://xine.sourceforge.net/ is rumored to be a DVD player program that works under solaris as well as other UNIXen.
Sysadmin types: Which one is me?
The sysadmin's rule: always be prepared