To enable the screen saver on Solaris, use xscreensaver-demo.  Do a man on xscreensaver for more info. To start xscreensaver automatically, put xscreensaver-command exit and xscreensaver & in Xsession. Do a find and edit all the Xsession files since there are more than one on Solaris.

Use prtdiag to get hardware information on Solaris.

svcs -xv # tells you what the problems are

svcs -d [s] #tells you what services [s] depends on

svcs -D [s] #tells you what services depend on [s]

svcs -a # shows all the services

svcs -l # shows all the information about the services

To get the version number of the operating system on a Solaris system:

less /etc/release

To get architecture info:

isainfo -v

To split an mp3 into 5 minute segments:

mp3splt -t 5.0 file.mp3

To tag all the created segments with info:

n=0;
for i in *.mp3;
do let n=$n+1;
mp3info -a “Sir Arthur Conan Doyle” -l “The Adv. of Sherlock Holmes I” -t “Sherlock Holmes Part I ($n)” -g 12 $i;
echo $i;
done