I do some senseless stuff from time to time. But this is really wierd. Why would anyone want to run Internet Explorer on Windows let alone Solaris.
But then the Government of India doesn’t seem to think so. Some of their Income Tax Department pages are thoroughly broken on Firefox. Anyway I got wine running inside Solaris and ies4linux worked like a charm. Click on the link for a high-res picture of microsoft.com on IE on wine on Solaris on AMD64 
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I recently came across an interesting hack in the linux kernel called “kexec”. exec() loads a userland program by overwriting the address space of the process calling the syscall. kexec is supposed to do the same with the kernel. Replace the running copy of a kernel with a newly specificed kernel.
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December 20, 2006 • 2:11 am
Every conversation with geeks not working in Sun this week has been about ZFS and ZFS making it to Mac OS X – Leopard. I get thoroughly drilled on Sun’s financial strategy and how we plan to make money rather than being asked about instantaneous snapshots and self-healing capabilities of ZFS. Thats one of the disadvantages of working for a “Non-Profit Organization” (of which we are very proud, anyway)
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Filed under: Computer Science, General, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Programming, Solaris
December 1, 2006 • 1:05 am
Here is a list of posts I wrote on my official weblog about FOSS.IN/2006.
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
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November 14, 2006 • 1:39 am
It might well go down in history as the month that changed the World. Or atleast the part of the world that me and my fellow humans who get paid for creating strings of ones and zeroes are primarily concerned with.
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