Solaris on VMware With the help of these instructions, Solaris 9 x86 promises to be fun, though not too much! My attempt to install the complete Java System (recommend 2.4GB of RAM!) met with Identity Server difficulties, and I could only get rid of the id server by choosing only the SunONE app server, with its modest suggestion of 256MB. The id server required FQDN and perhaps LDAP in operation to install.

Speaking of memory, the Encounter2003 sound editor just wouldn't behave with my 400MB wav files, very nearly crashed my machine. Audacity does so much better and is GPL. Meanwhile, I've made one more "friend", a certain mlyle@lyle.org at http://freeshell.org/ . Ironic, as I've really been there to make friends and support the non-profit proliferation of Unix. Oh well.
- posted by Anastasios @ 06:26

 
I do owe myself a brief discussion of Investis. An obvious success story, its Clerkenwell office space is quite densely populated with machines and pseudo-cubicles. They also do gravitate towards Java/Tomcat solutions, and altogether don't have a worry in the world. The techie interviewer had a preference for single basic questions and Perl::DBI's bind parameters, but altogether seemed not to understand me very well, something which I reciprocated!

Rational Robot - Product Overview - IBM Software I ran out of luck trying to install the Robot. Before even the installation proper, it informs me that my XP Home Edition needs some bizarre Terminal Server procedure to get MDAC 2.7 on. Following the procedure verbatim was not an option as it really involved Windows 2003 features, and my attempts to install the latest 2.8, 2.7sp1 and the "optional" JET engine (used to be part of MDAC) were all thwarted. Can't figure out why the robot would be so picky, especially since it used to be installable under all Windows versions. With Ansoft Designer and HFSS things were a bit better, the former on its own had some probs but the two together do OK.


- posted by Anastasios @ 00:40

 
LyX port for Windows 9x/ME/NT/XP/2000 Ah, the joys of LyXing in Windows. Installation is pretty straightforward, although the package keeps one foot in Cygwin's past and requires some effort to figure out what is relevant. Well, I created a cygpack directory for setup.exe from cygwin, added the http://wwwserv1.rz.fh-hannover.de/mbau/tim/hentschel/lyx/setup.ini and http://wwwserv1.rz.fh-hannover.de/mbau/tim/hentschel/lyx/lyx131.zip from the above website, unpacked the zip in its lyx131 directory, run setup.exe, choose local directory and the LyX category (files there were marked as "skip", need to be made "install") without the X clients, and done it. Only, /etc/lyxprofile sets an uneccessary (and "wrong") home variable, and the lyx.bat created in $CYGWIN_HOME assumes some ordinary Windows X server, I can't figure out how to start Cygwin X from a batch file, so I resigned to doing a startx in cygwin and a lyxwin32 there, and voila.
- posted by Anastasios @ 05:59

 
Yelton Hotel Hastings The Yelton is one of the usual Hastings Chess accommodations, with this years unusual winner, our very own Kotronias. The tournament's office number was 01424 718950. Meanwhile, I've managed to have my SIM card inoperational on such an important day, will be meeting Investis nevertheless.
- posted by Anastasios @ 20:56