2010-06-12

Ripping Audio CD in OpenSolaris

Install the SUNWcdrw package, create the filesystem(s)Open a Terminal and type: 12pfexec pkg install SUNWcdrwpfexec zfs create -o mountpoint=/music rpool/music Create a ripCD.sh script12345678910#!/bi

2010-05-26

OpenSolaris 2009.06, dev setup

Snapshot the root zfs poolThis allows us to revert to the pristine files at a later date. 1pfexec zfs snapshot -r rpool@firstboot (Optional) Disable system beep from Terminal(Optional) Alias “ls” and

2010-05-09

Batch resize photos to thumbnail size

On OpenSolaris, make sure SUNWimagick is installed1pfexec pkg install SUNWimagick ScriptThis script will resize all photos (ending in JPG) to a 200x150 size thumbnail.These will overwrite the files in

2010-04-26

Installing PostgreSQL 8.4.3 in OpenSolaris

Download the sourceDownload the file postgresql-8.4.3.tar.gz from http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/ Save this in /src You may also want to verify the file signature or checksums and read the READM

2010-04-23

Installing Tcl 8.5.8 in OpenSolaris

Download the sourceDownload the file tcl8.5.8-src.tar.gz from http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcl/files/ Save this in /src You may also want to verify the file signature or checksums and read the READ

2010-04-18

Rename all files that end in 'JPEG' with 'jpg'

ScriptThis script will save the path and name of all files ending in JPEG in the FN variable.Then goes through each entry and renames the files (and displays the file it’s on) 123456#!/bin/bashFN=$( f

2010-04-12

Installing FFmpeg 0.5.1 in OpenSolaris

Download the sourceDownload the file ffmpeg-0.5.1.tar.gz from http://ffmpeg.org/download.html Save this in /src You may also want to verify the file signature or checksums and read the README or INSTA

2010-04-11

Installing x264 (via git) in OpenSolaris

Clone, configure and make12345678910cd /srcgit clone git://git.videolan.org/x264.gitcd x264CFLAGS=$( find -L /my -type d -name include -exec echo "-I{} " \; | grep -v "[.][0-9]" | tr -d '\n'

2010-04-08

Installing Git 1.7.0.4 in OpenSolaris

Download the sourceDownload the file git-1.7.0.4.tar.gz from http://git-scm.com/download Save this in /src You may also want to verify the file signature or checksums and read the README or INSTALL fi