{"id":951,"date":"2007-12-06T23:59:59","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T13:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/06\/twitter-updates-for-2007-12-06\/"},"modified":"2007-12-06T23:59:59","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T13:59:59","slug":"twitter-updates-for-2007-12-06","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/06\/twitter-updates-for-2007-12-06\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Updates for 2007-12-06"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Solaris is annoying. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/stewartsmith\/statuses\/473553432\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>OpenSolaris Indiana holds hope of not being&#8230; although the preview ISO doesn&#8217;t seem to work in KVM :( <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/stewartsmith\/statuses\/473554342\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>i think i&#8217;ve fixed the Solaris ndb_restore problem <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/stewartsmith\/statuses\/474073232\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>no thanks to dbx <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/stewartsmith\/statuses\/474073512\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>and now I think I&#8217;ve fixed the (strange) OSX build problem <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/stewartsmith\/statuses\/474209602\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/alexking.org\/projects\/wordpress\">Twitter Tools<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solaris is annoying. # OpenSolaris Indiana holds hope of not being&#8230; although the preview ISO doesn&#8217;t seem to work in KVM :( # i think i&#8217;ve fixed the Solaris ndb_restore problem # no thanks to dbx # and now I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/06\/twitter-updates-for-2007-12-06\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-twitter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-fl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1587,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/08\/using-dtrace-to-find-out-why-solaris-is-so-slow-and-if-its-actually-solaris\/","url_meta":{"origin":951,"position":0},"title":"Using Dtrace to find out if the hardware or Solaris is slow (but really just working around the problem)","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2009-04-08","format":false,"excerpt":"A little while ago, I was the brave soul tasked with making sure Drizzle was working properly and passing all tests on Solaris and OpenSolaris. 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