Giant Robot

I was testing out OpenSolaris 2008.11 on VMWare (installed on VMWare Fusion 2.0 for OSX). While the LiveCD runs fine, doing an installation to VM results in a machine which boots to a corrupted console and fails to launch X11.

The fix is pretty simple, though, although you need to type fast!

Boot your new VM and select the text console mode. This will still try to launch X11, but it will give you a few seconds to fix the problem.

As soon as you see the login prompt, do the following steps - type fast now:

On a current project, we have links to another online application. The login page of this app has javascript to ensure that should a site link to it using target='_blank' or any other method of window opening, then it will instead 'hijack' the parent window and close the blank one.

I'm sure that made sense to the developers at the time, but if you're trying to link in an action (eg confirming an event booking) from your own scheduling application, you don't want the event you're editing getting wiped out because some other website says so.