Chris Quenelle is a tools developer at Oracle Corp. He's worked on performance and debugging tools at Sun and Oracle for over 15 years. He reads comic books and science fiction, and has more tivos than he can keep track of.

 

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Mac OS X — Dock review

I’ve been using Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) for a week or two as my main desktop environment, and I’m really liking the Dock for icons and such.  For the last 20 years, I’ve wanted a window manager that combined the quick-launch buttons with the running program icons.  I’ve finally gotten my wish.  But after using [...]

May 22nd, 2009 | Category: Modern Life, Tech Trivia | 2 comments

Visualizing dynamic library dependencies

Darryl Gove has been working on graphical display of shared library dependencies. It seems useful for performance analysis and debugging of dynamically linked applications.

He did one for StarOffice and for Firfox and Thunderbird.

StarOffice : http://blogs.sun.com/d/entry/drawing_libraries_neater_eye_candy
Firefox, Thunderbird : [...]

May 22nd, 2009 | Category: Debugging, Developer Tools, OpenSolaris | Leave a comment

OpenSolaris tips

(Direct document link)

Reboot to a specific boot environment:

    # bootadm list-menu
    the location for the active GRUB menu is: /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst
    default 0
    timeout 10
    0 zfsbe1
    1 zfsbe1 Solaris xVM
    2 zfsbe1 failsafe
    3 zfsbe2
    4 zfsbe2 Solaris xVM
    5 zfsbe2 failsafe

    # reboot [...]

May 14th, 2009 | Category: Developer Tools | Leave a comment