The current temperature in Fairbanks, Alaska is again -6°F, or -21°C.
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Observations from a West Coast family
File: 2005
[Repost from forum thread.] It’s been two months since my initial status message, which is probably a bit too long. Most of the efforts I mentioned in that update have made progress, so it’s worth mentioning their current status: 1. Elementary project hosting support. The web site development for simple project hosting is underway. At [...]
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The current temperature in Fairbanks, Alaska is -6°F, or -21°C.
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I’m still a bit woozy from a late night disk recovery at home which kept me up until about 4am Wednesday morning, but I thought I would point out two items in an old area of interest of mine: theoretical physics. First, Physics Today has devoted a special issue to Hans Bethe. Bethe’s range and [...]
As Glynn just blogged about it, I’d like to congratulate the JDS team (and the Desktop Community) on releasing the source to the Java Desktop System on opensolaris.org. In particular, I want to mention the build instructions, which provide a very clear starting point for those interested in exploring the source and how to build [...]
I went to a nice dinner a couple of weeks ago, to celebrate a couple friends’ visit to the Bay Area. The restaurant offered some tasting menus, so the more adventurous indulged in the six course offering, with a variety of tastes and textures. In line with current trends, flavoured foams accented between a quarter [...]
I can see late nights ahead: there’s a lot of writing to do for work, and enough daytime interruptions and meetings to stop me from proceeding swiftly. Happily for those idle enough to read this blog, this new phase of sleep deprivation means the completion of assorted partial entries—and the release of the various pieces [...]
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Over on mediacast.sun.com, I see Bob Netherton has posted a nice tutorial from Solaris Boot Camp, entitled “Migrating a legacy RC service”. The presentation covers the hiccoughs you might run into during your first conversion, and its step-by-step approach is very soothing. [ T: OpenSolaris Solaris smf ]
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Although I have been writing a lot lately—slides, draft policies and processes, and slews of email—none of it has managed to reach my blog. I’ve been a Wall Street Journal subscriber since graduate school—skimming the paper in the morning is a habit I’ve maintained despite the hazard of having milk-sodden cereal hurled in my face [...]
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Introducing JSON JavaScript Object Notation site.
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