I seeded the 2008.05 release candidate for about 45 hours, ultimately shipping a little over 4100 megabytes. I’m going to take a break, because I want to update my DP2-based workstation and get some work done, but, once we have new bits, I’ll getting seeding again.
(I found the actual result: 4237MiB sent up, so almost 4GiB.)
It Must Be Time for Tea: Converting Projects to Mercurial
Mike talks about helping projects move from TeamWare to Mercurial. Large projects may have been running a project gate ("branch") for a year or more, and with a clear schedule in mind. Minimizing the cost of the main gate switching source code managemen
Intel® Software Network Blogs » Making access to memory faster in OpenSolaris (and Core2)
Dave reports on performance improvements in OpenSolaris for memcpy(), memmove(), and memset() on Core2-based systems.
The View from the Moon: Finding bugs in python code, using DTrace
We’ve been using DTrace to check performance as we develop image packaging; here Dan reviews one of his recent wins. Because DTrace makes it extremely cheap to check for algorithmic mistakes, and the yields of correcting such mistakes are so high, it’s c
The View from the Moon: cr.opensolaris.org gets an ATOM feed
Dan extends code review to provide updates via syndication, which is another step to a virtual hallway for OpenSolaris development. Sweet.
Fiscally Conservative | Musings
Budget deficit and GDP growth compared by party across administrations, since 1930.
School Rankings for Writing OpenCourseWare
Article listing a bunch of online courseware on writing topics.
Election Candidates at OpenSolaris.org
Currently displaying the candidates for the 2008 election. Affiliations, bios, position statements, and podcasts.
The Open Solaris Governing Board 2.0 - Elections and Interviews - Barton’s Blog
Barton intends to interview as many of this year’s OGB candidates as he can.
OpenSolaris Polling Open [on Simon Phipps, SunMink]
Simon explains the two proposed amendments, his candidacy, and a list of candidates "committed to asking Sun’s management to communicate regularly and clearly with the OpenSolaris community".
all200.gif (GIF Image, 1278×8425 pixels)
Graph of distances from the centre of the Earth, outwards.
Create your own OpenSolaris IPS repository in a Weekend! : Michal Pryc’s Weblog
Michal collects his image packaging screencasts, which constitute a six-part series on how to get image packaging up and running and ready to publish your own software packages.
mozdev.org - vimperator: index
A Firefox extension which wraps the browser in a vi/vim-like interface. Intriguing.
10 Steps to Caiman Development on Indiana : Fore!
With a few easy pkg(5) operations, you can add the tools needed to use the Developer Preview as a development system. Dave gives the step-by-step instructions.
[sfwnv-discuss] draft webrev for star integration into SFWNV
Darren offers up a webrev showing how straightforward the "technical" part of integrating a component into SFW is.
I’m sure that there are Firefox users out there who want to restore their previous session; I never do, and so deactivating that dialog is a big timesaver. If you search, you’ll find a few writeups on how to adjust the configuration, but I want to document the minimum steps to suppress the restore session dialog.
about:config into the URL field.sessionstore into the displayed filter field and press Enter.browser.sessionstore.enabled row, so that the value field reads False.[ T: Firefox ]
Tempting…
Maybe what I saw at Ano Nuevo SR last week.
Tokyo Cabinet: a modern implementation of DBM
"Tokyo Cabinet is a library of routines for managing a database. The database is a simple data file containing records, each is a pair of a key and a value. Every key and value is serial bytes with variable length. Both binary data and character string ca
For the Thanksgiving holiday this year, we decided to explore San Mateo County’s section of the Pacific Coast. Dina settled on Butano State Park as our base, which is mostly made of a redwoods-forested canyon, south of Pescadero and on the western slopes of the Santa Cruz Mountains. We arrived in the late afternoon, having taken CA-84 through Woodside to San Gregario, and then heading south on CA-1.
We arrived late enough that, after setting up camp, it soon became too dark for even a short hike. It’s been cool on the Peninsula this fall, and it felt cool in the morning. We were all grateful when, with temperatures between 30 - 40 °F (0 - 5°C), Dina made oatmeal for breakfast.
One of the first things I noticed—and probably evident from the use of the flash in the above picture—is how dimmed the light on the forest floor is. The cool, dim environment appears to let some pretty sizeable mushrooms thrive; this specimen’s cap is about 2.5″ (63 mm) in diameter, although apparently there are bigger species around. The ribbon-like growths show a bit of élan.
Ben captured an interesting diffracted view of the forest around us:
Out of the dimness, we drove down to Año Neuvo State Reserve, and worked off a little energy in our walk out to the dunes and possible elephant seals.
As we walked, I watched a raptor maintain a position for seconds at a time, presumably as part of its hunting method. Here are three frames, over a total of 8 seconds, from a fair distance away.
The mating season for elephant seals doesn’t begin for a few weeks yet, so that apparently makes these early arrivals juvenile females that won’t actually participate directly.
We explored Pescadero State Beach and the Pigeon Point Lighthouse, but the formation revealed at Pebble Beach between the two was striking. Apparently, the ocean (and already pulled pebbles) knock out other pebbles and slowly widen the sockets.
We went back for another crisp evening and chilly morning at Butano, revisited a few of the sites on Friday, and headed back—with a detour through Gilroy to sample a bit of Black Friday—in time for a dinner at home.
Photos taken with a Panasonic Lumix LX-2 and with a Canon PowerShot S2 IS.
The 2007 winter outlook: a La Nina year, with typical temperatures, drier than average along the California coast.
Rasputnik uses xmodmap to remap to a Dvorak layout.
I just want to mention that I knew Alan before his current fifteen minutes.
Mozilla FAQ around their code review process, which has a super reviewer much like the RTI advocate model we use.
