Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 was released about a week ago. This update includes lots of fixes and some features – you can see the list here . The only problem with the update is that Microsoft does not offer an offline installer. If you are installing this on your own PC or for one person, you may not have a need for one. But… if your entire team needs to install this (or you just want to have it for later for a PC rebuild, you can download all 1.8 GB and have an offline installer for you or your team to share. Here’s how: Get the update from Microsoft here . (updated with Update 4 link) Save the file to a folder. open the folder Pro tip – Shift + right-click the background of the folder and choose ‘Open command window here’ in the command window type VS2013.4.exe /Layout (or VS2013.1.exe /Layout or VS2013.2.exe /Layout depending on your update) It will then ask you w...
Oracle made a huge changes in the networking stack with Solaris 11. The use of many network related files have been deprecated in Solaris 11. Below are some of the files which are not used in Solaris 11 for persistent network configuration : /etc/defaultdomain /etc/dhcp.* /etc/hostname.* /etc/hostname.ip*.tun* /etc/nodename /etc/nsswitch.conf Network Configuration Profile Solaris 11 uses profile-based network configuration. It has 2 configuration modes : 1. Automatic – Uses DHCP to obtain network configuration (IP address, router and DNS) from any of the connected ethernet interfaces. Do not support hot swapping of interfaces and IPMP. 2. Manual (DefaultFixed NCP) – interfaces needs to be manually configured using dladm and ipadm commands. Also called as DefaultFixed NCP. Supports hot swapping of interfaces and IPMP. Configuring the IP address Step 1 : Set the NCP We would set the NCP to DefaultFixed profile in order to configure the IP address...