OpenSolaris Support Services Training and Help – Docs Documentation White Papers FAQs Subscriptions OpenSolaris guides – Features Glynn's written up a very comprehensive What's New for 2008.11.

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CS 294-5, Spring 2006 Great Algorithms Interesting course from Berkeley's Richard Karp.

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OpenSolaris System Administration Topics List – wikis.sun.com A companion page to the tasks list, with useful links to troubleshooting articles as well. Forget how to make a change to an OpenSolaris system? Read this page.

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OpenSolaris System Administration Tasks List – wikis.sun.com A very useful list of administrative tasks–and the "how to" instructions to make them happen. New to OpenSolaris? This page is for you.

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Simple Recipes in Python Some simple implementations of numerical algorithms in Python.

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Randy has been blogging on the suspend-resume feature and how it’s been improving on a variety of x86-based systems. A few weeks ago, I was sitting on the USGS Menlo Park campus, and decided to record a demonstration of my own laptop being suspended and resumed multiple times: (You can also access the video on [...]

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ImageMagick Tutorial Some basic operations with the ImageMagick convert utility.

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ffmpeg audio/video manipulation A well-constructed introduction to using ffmpeg for video and audio manipulation.

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N.E.R.D.: ffmpeg command line quickies Useful one-line invocations of ffmpeg.

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FFmpeg Documentation Options and operands for ffmpeg. Combine with "ffmpeg -formats" to figure out what you build of ffmpeg can do.

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Dina and I were, despite all polls, anticipating election nights like the preceding two, where any hope of resolution was delayed, and tension distributed to all election watchers. This year, I was determined to enjoy the evening, and poured something light for the both of us to sip while listening to analyses. Historians will write [...]

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FFmpeg FAQ Note 3.2 "How do I encode single pictures into movies?" and 3.19 "How can I join video files?" Engage brain, produce movie.

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As you update your pkg(5)-based system to build 100a, you might see a message on console during startup. It will look something like WARNING: pool ‘zeta1′ could not be loaded as it was last accessed by another system (host: rosseau hostid: 0x581d45e). See: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-EY and in /var/adm/messages, you’ll find it again: Oct 27 14:55:21 rosseau [...]

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OpenSolaris Indiana on a Sony UX Micro PC – Brad’s weblog Brad, with limited acrobatics, gets 2008.05 installed and running on the teeny-tiny UX.

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