If you have a Solaris 8 install disc which you want to upload to a Solaris 10 Jumpstart server with ZFS filesystems, you'll find that the setup_install_server script returns an error complaining "not a local filesystem, can't export ...". This is a quick workaround, as it does not appear to be in Google.

As we're heading back to Tenby next weekend for a last wild fling before the end of summer, I thought I'd undertake a quick survey of Tenby images on Flickr to see how other people have photographed the place and whether I could learn something prior to my next attempt. My resulting picks are in this gallery.

"I discovered this extraordinary period in music, particularly the first five years of the 1970s, and I think you can hear that in the record."

Steven Wilson has given a very encouraging interview to promote his forthcoming solo album, Grace For Drowning, in which he talks up the influence of jazz on early progressive rock and how he has attempted to take this forward after a thirty year gap.

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I developed five rolls of black and white film this weekend, mostly dating from 3-4 years ago except for one roll I finished off on Sunday. That cleared almost my entire backlog except for a roll of 120 from the Holga, plus several rolls still loaded in various cameras (including one I, er, started on Sunday). It also used the last of my main bottle of developer and the all-important fixer, so there won't be any more done without an investment in new chemicals. I wouldn't say it was fun - I appreciate the results but not the process - but it was fairly painless except for one roll that stuck while I was winding it on to the reel, and that I subsequently had to cut mid-length and develop the last bit separately.

Some useful links and tidbits picked up during my research.

Some quick notes based on three days of playing with various ISOs and installer images. I need to install a working instance (i.e. not a "Live CD installer") of OpenIndiana on a USB flash drive for my forthcoming NAS box; trickier than you might think. [Updated, 20110110]

There comes a time in every sysadmin's life when he is overcome by a deep-seated, atavistic urge ... to build his own home file server. And BB is there. Those digital photo archives, they don't get smaller. And those MP3 collections, they're easily grown. And then you start downloading video files...

Ten years of Big-Bubbles (no troubles) bloggery or, as seems more accurate lately, one new blog entry every ten years! (Here's where we came in.)

Thank you, loyal reade... oh, that's me.

July 1992. I was on the point of graduating from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth with a 2(i) in Computer Science. Three years earlier, I'd entered university studying Geology, with CompSci as an accessory or possibly a joint degree; I hadn't been too sure. Geology was ostensibly what I'd been educated to A Level for (my school hadn't offered Computer Science); computers were actually where my interest lay. It quickly turned out that Geology wasn't. One of the first things you are taught is that everything you learnt at O and A Level was to be discarded and relearnt from scratch. You could not simply pick up a piece of granite and identify it as granite, even though you knew irrefutably it was granite the same as the blue stuff above you was "sky" - you had to go through the motions of analysing it first. Much as I had enjoyed A Level geology, I had not signed up to repeat it. More pressingly, the summer field trip was upcoming and, having already experienced one week of staring at wet rocks in the rain, I wasn't keen for two weeks of the same while solo camping in the wild. So I applied to change my degree and, after a show of prevarication from the Geology department (along the lines of them not being seen to lose out while some other department gained), the switch duly occurred. Fortunately, one of my contemporaries in CompSci wanted to go the other way, so I think a straight swap was arranged (dawn in the Geography concourse; tense negotiations; the two captives each ordered to march towards the opposite side and not stop; etc). I like to think that CompSci got the better deal; the other guy was surely 2(ii) material...?

The problem: The Youtube app doesn't work on the iPhone and iPod Touch when a proxy is configured in the wifi settings. There are various hints on the forums that a particular URL used by the app requires rewriting (as the request says one thing but the Host header says something else). However, no one AFAIK has provided actual code to fix this.

The solution: (Squid users only) the following script should be configured as a redirector in Squid (e.g. "redirect_program /usr/local/bin/youtube_redirect"):

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
$|=1;
while (<>) {
    s@http://iphone-wu.apple.com/feeds/api/@http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/@;
    s@http://iphone-wu.apple.com/feeds/videos/@http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/videos/@;
    print;
}

Also set "url_rewrite_host_header off" and reload your Squid config. This should fix the broken URLs generated by the Youtube app and still allow the proxy to work for all other requests.