Gary and I were recently prototyping an application that uses Java RMI, and so I ended up searching around to see if anyone has done a service conversion for rmiregistry(1). (rmiregistry(1) is the daemon that lets RMI clients find the available remote objects being served by various virtual machines on a given system.) Turns out [...]
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Observations from a West Coast family
File: Pastime
I’m not the most device-laden person around here—by far. But I occasionally like to carry a camera and my Visor, as well as the obligatory tether-phone. An extra pocket would be nice, as wearing a jacket (with its 2 – 6 pockets) is uncomfortable for much of the year in a California climate. I always [...]
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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 ]
The rest of the family didn’t have vacation time, beyond the Fourth of July weekend, so I got a chance to do some reading and to write some code. I am particularly excited to use tag(1) at work: my home directory is hosted on the main zfs(7FS) server, which means practically unlimited metadata. Tagging—I hope—will [...]
In honour of the “Mugs for Manifests” contest, I thought I would spin out another custom service description I wrote some months ago. My setup for working from home—key during the last six months of Solaris 10—is to tunnel into Sun’s network via one implementation or another of a virtual private network (VPN). In all [...]
So, while I wore the final symmetric/named knot at the OpenSolaris CAB dinner, I haven’t stopped wearing ties to work. I’m tying a variety of knots for four-in-hand ties—Nickys and half-Windsors for the most part—plus the occasional bow-tie. As far as I can determine, it hasn’t affected my work. This is, of course, my wrap-up [...]
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Tie knot: Knot 78 (Balthus).
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For various reasons—some reasonable, some suspect—Solaris doesn’t ship with a compiled set of windex databases for its manual pages. The unfortunate result is that helpful commands like apropos(1) or man -k are unhelpful: $ apropos sort /usr/man/windex: No such file or directory < p> smf(5) provides one way to address this shortcoming, via a transient [...]
Tie knot: No time, no knot, alas.
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