Month: May 2014

iMac iSight/Facetime Camera Fix
By: Date: May 23, 2014 Categories: Home Computing,Mac / OS X Tags:

In the years that I have used a Mac, I’ve run into remarkably few problems. One notable exception was when I went to answer a Face Time call from my son on my 2013 iMac.  FaceTime said there was no camera connected.  Well, there’s a camera built-in, so yeah, I knew it was physically connected :)….

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Private Virtual Networks in Solaris 11.2
By: Date: May 18, 2014 Categories: Solaris / Illumos Tags:

Overview Solaris 11.2 (beta) has some powerful network virtualization features.  We use zones quite a bit at work, but on the network side with zones we have mostly used anet configurations where VNICs are auto-created, perhaps also specifying a VLAN id.  Powerful, easy, and best of all, very efficient configuration and virtualization. But that only scratches…

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