Solaris ships with a System Controller Administration (scadm) utility. This allows you to manage the alom card from inside the os. Always useful for cards that are stuck or forgotten passwords.
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SteamOS
Ever since the start I have been a huge fan of SteamOS and I have been running Alchemist since the closed BETA. The fact that I can stream games from my Desktop to my TV is a major plus for me in games like Pro Evolution Soccer. Certain games such as the Witcher can run natively on my SteamOS.
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Poormans Dedupe
Fancy file systems as ZFS or WAFL have dedupe options to reduce the diskspace of recurring files. These file systems look at each file and only keep one copy of the same file if the file is present in multiple folders. Most of these file systems keep huge tables in memory to speed up this process. (more…)