Why is Microsoft running ads for BING via Google ??????

While watching Top Gear today I stumbled onto something rather "special" as I would like to call it.

Its an ad for Microsofts new search engine "Bing" on Youtube which is owned by Google.

The situation is special in more than one way though if you really think about it.

A. Microsoft is trying to gain visibility via a source it knows is used my most people. So by displaying an ad there most earthlings like me who use various services of Google get to know that there exists something called Bing.

B. Google gets nothing by displaying the ad (assuming its under AdSense sort of arrangement) unless someone clicks on the advertisement. So this means that if Microsofts Bing is not popular enough and most people do not click its ad, Google will not generate revenue which is the sole purpose for Googles interest in displaying ads.

C. If people start clicking on ads for Bing via Google, then Google will generate revenue for itself at the cost of losing people who may potentially like Bing and may possibly start using it actively ditching Google.

So should Google display ads for Microsoft ?
Should Microsoft display ads on Google ?

I don't know .. but its sure that things like these keep the humor going.

How to Enable or Disable a processor in Sun Solaris

In multiprocessor environments, Sun Solaris can allow enabling or
disabling Processors. This although is not something that we would do
all the time but can come handy when troubleshooting hardware issues.

Sun
Solaris has the psradm utility which allows enabling or disabling a
Processor on the system. The psradm utility changes the operational
status of processors. The legal states for the processor are on-line,
offline, spare, Faulted, and no-intr. An online processor processes
LWPs (lightweight  processes) and can be interrupted by I/O devices in
the system.

To enable or disable
a processor on the system we need to know the Processor ID. This can be
found using the psrinfo utility as follows:

sunsolaris# psrinfo
0       on-line   since 05/09/2008 19:41:32

where 0 is the processor ID.

To know the path of the psradm command

sunsolaris# which psradm
/usr/sbin/psradm

To disable a processor

sunsolaris# psradm -f 0

where ‘0′ is the processor ID and ‘-f’ indicates the processor is taken offline (disable)

To enable a processor

sunsolaris# psradm -n 0

where ‘0′ is the processor ID and ‘-n’ indicates the processor is brought online (enable)

Source: http://www.sunsolarisadmin.com/hardware/how-to-enable-or-disable-a-processor-in-sun-solaris/#more-57

Solaris Routing

• Add a route
  # route add net 128.50.3.0 bigbox
   
• Add a default route [host|net] dest. [ gateway]
  # route add default  maingw
   
• Delete a route
  # route delete net 128.50.3.0 sword-r
  
• Lookup and display the route for a destination:
  # route get 128.50.2.0
  
• Get routing reports continuously
  # route monitor
  
• Flush the routing table:
  # route flush
  
• Add the multicast path for 224.0.0.0:
  # route add 224.0.0.0 `uname -n` 0
  
• Use
  the "route add net" command with the -netmask option to make the route
  command to take the netmask specified on the command line
  
  # route add net 192.168.68.0 128.50.1.250 1 -netmask 255.255.255.192

Q1. Which command manipulates the routing table ?

 A: route

 Q2: Command to add a route to server1 via router1:

 A: route add host server1 router1

Q3. Which command will add a route to the network 128.251.0.0 via 128.144.1.254 ?

 A: route add net 128.251.0.0 128.144.1.254

Q4. Which command would delete a route to host server1 via router1 ?

 A: route delete host server1 router1

Q5. Which command will delete the route to the network 128.251.0.0 via 128.144.1.254 ?

 A: route delete net 128.251.0.0 128.144.1.254

Q6. Which command will remove all entries from the routing table ?

 A: route flush

Q7. Which command allows you to monitor the routing requests that are not getting resolved from the routing table ?

 A7: route monitor

Q8. Which script starts the in.named daemon ?

A:  Depend on the Solaris version:

• /etc/init.d/inetsvc

Source: http://www.softpanorama.org/Net/Netutils/route.shtml

Review: Angels and Demons

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808151/

Well I went to watch this movie today. Having read the book 4 times I come to the conclusion that it wasn't what Dan Brown wrote. The story was changed quite a bit to adapt it for the screen. However I liked the movie.

I know people are going to judge the movie based on the book but if you watch the movie from a standpoint where you don't expect whats in the book to happen and let the story unfold its a good watch. The story made sense and the reinterpretation of events from the book was fluent. However I would have loved it if they kept it the same way and made an 8-10 hr movie covering everything.

The major reason I wanted to watch this movie was to get a sense of vatican architecture which is covered extensively in the book. I thought the filming of churches was good and presented the sense of grandeur which I imagined through the eyes of the book having never been there. I do have a wish now to visit vatican. The acting was fine and not the best i've seen. I think the hassasins character was a bit week than whats in the book and could have been a potential improvement. Also CERN should have been covered in more detail which I was actually looking forward to.

Anyways I cannot say that the movie did justice to the book but I can say it was an above average effort. I'd highly recommend the book though to all the people whether they have watched the movie or not.

Extract files from a Solaris 10 .pkg Package

To extract the files just use this

mkdir tmp

pkgtrans pkgfile tmp

All the files will be extracted without any package installation


Readd files

pkgtrans -s /tmp /tmp/name.pkg