Every so often, I run into examples of bad RPM packaging . Today's encounter takes the cake for utter packagingfailure, though:

The RPM for VMWare Workstation 6.5.1 contains exactly one file, whichthe postinstall script runs and then removes. This one file is of coursethe regular self-extracting installer that VMWare gives you if you optfor the non-RPM version of VMWare Workstation, which means that it dumpsall sorts of things over your filesystems, thereby completely defeatingalmost all of the

As I was reading Sun documentation yesterday, I had a belated realization about one of the attractions ofTwitter: it is a public place to put snarky comments and quick reactionsthat are neither serious enough nor long enough for a blog entry, even avery short one.

Now, as it happens I already have social venues for these reactions, butthey suffer from two problems. First, they're not public, and second,they take more involvement than merely throwing something at Twitter,because they actually are social

I have some wishes for docs.sun.com , Sun'stheoretically helpful collection of online documentation.

Sun has a lot of documentation about how to do things with Solaris.Well, how to do things with specific versions of Solaris, for exampleone for each specific release of Solaris 10. This level of archiveddocumentation for each specific release is commendable, but it leadsdirectly to my first wish:

I wish that Sun had permanent URLs that were always the current versionsof any particular document; I would