So there are a few ways to get a copy of the Indiana preview ISO: via HTTP from dlc.sun.com, via HTTP from genunix.org, via HTTP from osol.acm.jhu.edu, via FTP from ftp.df.lth.se, or via BitTorrent. Both our mirrors are in Northern California, so—since it’s a completely redistributable set of software—if you’re interested in being a mirror [...]

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mozilla.org – Code Review FAQ Mozilla FAQ around their code review process, which has a super reviewer much like the RTI advocate model we use.

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RFC 3852 Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) "This document describes the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS). This syntax is used to digitally sign, digest, authenticate, or encrypt arbitrary message content."

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Over the past week, as we kept reassembling the distro constructor, image packaging, and slim install, we tested installs on a bunch of laptops. This manual operation let me rehearse how to get things working if the Preview LiveCD doesn’t have a graphics driver that will work. So: here’s the VESA workaround. Boot text mode. [...]

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Dario Taraborelli: The beauty of LaTeX Nice summary and short collection of links.

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Open Source Unleashed: A pot for Sun’s open source potpourri? I believe Alex is looking for something more unified or coherent across Sun’s open source communities, but I’m not sure exactly what. (Reread later, maybe?)

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Danek and I are at the 2007 OpenSolaris Developer Summit at UC Santa Cruz, talking about and, I hope, later demonstrating the image packaging prototype so far. I gave a brief overview of the project’s goals and status, and mentioning some of the unmentionables we’ve encountered—some particularly undisciplined configuration files, some apparently important but encumbered [...]

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Predictable – pkg(5): Talking in the redwoods, talking on the beach, … I’ve been at the 2007 OpenSolaris Developer Summit, presenting and discussing where we are in the current image packaging prototype.

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"Why Programmers suck at Picking Colors" (Stefano’s Linotype) A review leading to a NASA colour picker implementing selection based on the Munsell colour system.

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Last October, the New York Times was considering extreme yachts: “Today, a megayacht is indispensable,” said Olivier Milliex, head of yacht finance at the Dutch bank ING. “It’s not like 15 years ago, when a yacht was a luxury item.” Hmm. I don’t have one, so I think “indispensible” isn’t the right word. Perhaps “megayacht [...]

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