Oracle Solaris download from OTN with wget

Solaris 10 Update 9 recently announced and I believe this is the first release under the new stewardship. For the first time last month I received an email from my ISP saying I was getting close to my peak download limit, so I am making concerted effort to download in my off-peak time.

So I need to automate the download of recent Solaris release from OTN. Drop this wget incantation into an at job and we are off.

wget -v -c --no-check-certificate "https://profile.oracle.com/jsp/reg/loginHandler.jsp?remoteIp=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx&globalId=&redirectUrl=http://download.oracle.com/otn/solaris/10/sol-10-u9-ga-x86-dvd-iso.zip&username=XXXXX&password=XXXXX" -o getsolarisx86.log &

Replace xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx with your remoteIP address and the same for your OTN username and password and you should be in business.

In bed with the devil

Inspired by the recent events of some ex NP MP's siding with the ALP, I too have been inspired to move from my Opensolaris (RIP) desktop to Ubuntu.

I've never been a huge fan of packaging systems as no matter which you use each has it's own failings and misgiving. If there is one thing worse than a packaging system it's the dependency hell that is a Linux distro, so I'll give the Ubuntu one a crack. While it's been sometime since I used such a distro in real anger recent involvement in this area with my paying job has shown that the issue has not gotten any better.

So first cab of the rank is getting Virtualbox installed

• Add the repository

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian lucid non-free"

• Add the key Oracle public key

wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -

• Update apt-get

sudo apt-get update

• and Finally install

sudo apt-get install virtualbox-3.2

Not bad only 8 other packages I needed to make this install happen and get VirtualBox 3.2.8 r64453 .

Next on the list I need to move my VM's onto my new desktop.

Ergfit Race 2

Last weekend saw the running of Race 2 of the Ergfit indoor Regatta. Yours truly tiped in with a PB time of 1:33.7 in the 500m event, .9 second quicker than race one. Aiming for a 1:32 so some work still to be done.

Daemon gear

Moving right along in the continued migration to transmission, its in and running in deamon mode on the command line, flexget is in and tested. Just need to add flexget to cron and make sure transmission-deamon starts at system bootup. Ok SMF script needed, being an inherently lazy unix guy , I'll just google that and and yes number one with the bullet I find this over on 4amlunch.net thanks to wonko. A quick mod on the TRANSMISSION_HOME to suit my local setup and and transmission-daemon is running from SMF. flexget cronjob added all should be good to go. I'll wait an hour let the cron job run it's course and see what we get.