Nerdcore

A post on the DefCon forums prompted me to go find some free Nerdcore, which is Hip Hop/Rap which is geek oriented and created by geeks. It appeals to me since it uses sounds and songs that I know as a computer geek, as well as references, and other such cool things. I have found quite a few free songs here and there, but the best one has got to be Rhymetorrents. There is quite a bit available under the Creative Commons licenses. Let me know what you guys like!

Some of the ones I like:

• Emulation Station - 1337 G33K B3AT
• WoW - Futuristic Sex Robotz
• Fuck the MPAA - Futuristic Sex Robotz
• Vampire Girl - MCeeP

This stuff is awesome.

Solaris 10

So I decided I would install Solaris 10 to see if I am able to get a compiler going (GCC) to see if I can port certain parts of 0x58-unix to Solaris, most notably the event handling. It is proving to more difficult than I had imagined to get a real Unix system up and running. I am able to log in over SSH and use bash, which is better than the default shell that Solaris uses.

Everything is different, whereas in FreeBSD I am pretty used that when I go to Linux that some commands will act differently, Solaris is a totally different beast. The PS output I was looking for in FreeBSD is:

ps auxwww

in Solaris it is:

ps -Af

Took me a while to figure out. I have to re-learn different commands, where things are located. GCC is not even installed standard, so as far as I know there is no compiler on the system, and that for an install that is pretty hefty. First thing I need to teach myself is how to make the install lean. I want just core, no Xorg, no staroffice and other such stuff that makes no sense to have on something that is a server.