{"id":58,"date":"2008-09-27T00:35:55","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T19:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themidnightsun.wordpress.com\/?p=58"},"modified":"2008-09-27T00:35:55","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T19:05:55","slug":"rats-and-meow-on-opensolaris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lguruprasad.in\/blog\/2008\/09\/27\/rats-and-meow-on-opensolaris\/","title":{"rendered":"Rats and Meow on OpenSolaris"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was having issues connecting to online repositories of Ubuntu and OpenSolaris as I was connect to a network which was behind a proxy server. Thanks to Avinash Joshi http:\/\/blogs.sun.com\/avinashjoshi\/entry\/using_apt_get_behind_a<\/a> I was able to setup apt on Ubuntu to contact and install packages from the Ubuntu repository from behind the proxy. I was trying to find a similar solution to OpenSolaris too when Ashwin Bhatt, the highly helpful and active Tech-lead, helped me with the idea that a simple export of a ‘http_proxy’ variable with the proxy server and port values i it would do the trick. It indeed worked for me and I could install all the essential things on my OpenSolaris installation. So I downloaded and installed VLC player<\/a> from Life with Solaris<\/a> IPS repository.<\/p>\n

I had installed audio drivers on OpenSolaris (courtesy Ashwin Bhatt). So when I installed VLC player, AMP stack and stuff, there was no need for me anymore to use M$ Windoze anymore as I have cool Ubuntu Hardy Heron and OpenSolaris 2008.05!<\/p>\n

I had brought ‘Jaane to ya jaane na’ (a long time due), on my usb stick from my friend. And it became my first movie on OpenSolaris. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Movies are basically for 3 hours of total entertainment even though there might be gaping holes in the logic, and JTYJN was one such movie. It is a good enough debut for Imran Khan who manages to look handsome and the gorgeous Genelia D’Souza continuing her mannerisms from ‘Bommarilu’ and ‘Santhosh Subramaniam’. I was really happy watching the movie on OpenSolaris and my friends, most of whom where thinking OpenSolaris was for geeks and it must be so complex and user-unfriendly were left dumbfounded.<\/p>\n

Why ‘Rats and Meow’ in the title? The nicknames with which Imran Khan and Genelia call each other in the movies are Miaow (Genelia) and Rats(Imran Khan)! For more details watch the movie itself.<\/p>\n

P.S. Imran and Genelia seem to have a nice chemistry and this post is not much about the movie JTYJN \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

OpenSolaris can do anything any other OS can do and can do much more….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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