CanvasGraph.js : Graphing in Javascript | liquidx Graphing in the browser–needs Firefox 1.5, but very useful once canvas support widespread.
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Observations from a West Coast family
File: 2005
A while back, I was speculating about getting a new camera. I finally gave up using the S30 with the broken screen and decided to act. Although I showed some recent system-administration-confererence-action shots, indoor snapshots are never as much fun. So when we decided to go see the visiting reindeers—from central Oregon apparently—at the San [...]
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James Dickens spied a new BluePrint on the planned redeployment of store.sun.com [PDF] to SunFire T2000 systems running Solaris 10. Beyond the tremendous reduction in occupied space and the around 90 percent estimated reduction in input power and output heat, the document describes the use of Solaris Containers to consolidate the middle tier servers, complete [...]
[ Alice Sturgis, The Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure, 4e., Mc Graw-Hill, 2000. ] As I mentioned, I wanted to make sure the team gave some additional support to the governance work being done for OpenSolaris. When I thought about it for a little bit, I realized that, while we have recent and valuable experiences [...]
Sara’s tree [was once available] on a shirt. [That was pretty] slick. Update, 2009-03-26: The swag store and the shirt are no longer available. [ T: OpenSolaris ]
After commiserating with my room’s ceramic bunny—his feet are glued to the cabinet’s top and so he has limited opportunities for conversation—I finished packing and headed out for the last few hours of LISA05. First up was the last papers session, with Liane presenting on smf(5), in addition to papers on a spreadsheet-based scripting environment [...]
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Thursday evening was a series of sponsored events. The LISA reception was a combination of dinner, desserts, drinks, and a miniature casino floor: A fascinating part of the reception was the balloon assemblies produced by the man pictured; here he’s making a birthday cake hat: People lucky enough to receive wings, a palm tree hat [...]
Warren Strange: SMF manifest for SlimServer A service conversion for SlimServer.
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I went to the midday configuration management theory session as well as to Matt Blaze’s plenary. (I missed the invited talks as I lost track of time during a late lunch.) The talk I enjoyed out of the theory session was by Alva Couch and colleagues from Tufts, who presented steps towards a cost model [...]
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While I’ve been listening to various talks, other folks have been answering questions about Solaris, the new systems, and other Sun products in our booth on the vendor floor. We have a double wide, and it was busy whenever I passed by during session breaks: In addition to the engineers I’ve mentioned were here, Cindy [...]
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