After a rapidly served and consumed dinner at Taste of Thai, the Solaris BoF squad headed back for the Wednesday session at 9 pm. The room filled up fast, with some folks ultimately having to stand in the back: I decided to spell Jonathan as T-shirt gerbil, and was happy to give out Sara‘s OpenSolaris [...]

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While the vendor exhibition opened and inquiries were handled at the Sun booth, I went to the technical session on Configuration Managment Theory and to Radia Perlman‘s invited talk. The most interesting talk to a kernel developer in the technical session was Shaya Potter presenting on the Autopod work he and Jason Nieh have been [...]

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One of the questions raised at Tuesday night’s BoF was “why are some of the statistics that iostat -E displays result in a console message and some do not?” I was sitting in the back with a copy of Mike Kupfer’s split ON source tree, and decided to have a look. iostat(1M) is a kstat [...]

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After the N1 Grid BoF session led by Eric Nielsen, Liane took the lead on a well attended BoF about Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris. (I missed the N1 BoF, enjoying a nice conversation with Bernd Haug, who has been architecting solutions using Solaris in various scenarios in Austria.) As with any presentation, it takes some [...]

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I ordered an additional drive for our long running Series 1 Tivo last week from one of the firms that specializes in such things. The drive “marriage” didn’t go well, and the unit was stuck at the Green Screen of Death—and, since these upgrades are supposed to just work, I didn’t have a backup. Scrambling [...]

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It’s been a few years and a couple of kids since my last conference, but I’m happy to be packing to be ready to attend LISA 2005, which is happening in San Diego, CA this week. My plane lands mid-afternoon Tuesday, and I’ll be there until Friday. Liane‘s giving a paper on smf(5), and Liane [...]

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By the way, Dina went to Fairbanks a few weeks ago, enjoyed the chilly contrast with Bay Area weather, and had a productive and fun visit. And, to keep karmic scales in balance, I caught a nasty cold for reminding her of the low low temperatures she could expect.

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Nathaniel has keen vision; we often see mourning doves on the power and telephone lines that pass by the front of our house and he is happy to point them out. And occasionally, a raucous crow will perch in one of the nearby trees or atop a pole shouldering the local lines. But a couple [...]

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So both Dan Price and Ben Rockwood have asked again and again and again for Audacity, a free audio editor, to be ported to Solaris. A reasonable challenge. After a bit of fiddling and some decisions, I have a functional version of Audacity 1.2.3. Whether or not this will result in me issuing podcasts, mixes, [...]

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It’s a balmy 9°F (-13°C) tonight in Fairbanks, although with windchill it feels like -6°F (-21°C). Why one would be naked and outdoors to verify that measurement is beyond me.

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