I finally got Internet Explorer for Solaris installed after a suggestion from Mike about using LD_PRELOAD and just rewritting uname(2) (probably learn DTrace anyway for kicks).
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There is only one week of winter break left and I have done nothing noteworthy. Maybe that will end this week? Probably not. Also, my sleep schedule has also gone to shit.
(If you are going to be around New Brunswick during the week and want to hang out, send me a message.)
In other news, I still haven’t figured out how to install IE for Solaris on Solaris 10 yet. I’ll probably learn DTrace and figure out how to do it myself, since I can’t seem to find the artice which explained how to use DTrace to fake the OS version given to the Oracle installer. I could try wine (as someone suggested), but the point of the whole challenge was to get the Solaris version install so to compare it to the Windows version.
I tried installing Internet Explorer for Solaris while home for Christmas. The installer, apparently, checks the OS release and doesn’t seem to understand “5.10″ (or something along those lines). I remember someone using DTrace to intercept the syscall to uname(3) in the Oracle installer (when trying to install it on OpenSolaris) and changed the release value, does anyone have that page bookmarked by any chance (I’ve googled for it, and can’t find it).
So I was talking with Ted about his Software Engineering project and we got on the topic of Internet Explorer for Solaris. I found a copy and might try to install it to see how crappy it is.
Sun Microsystems Anti-Dell Ads
If nothing more than the humor value.
Update: It appears that Sun has taken them down.
Update: It’s back up, although with out the “rejected” ones.
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