I was out half this week, helping my younger son deal with a nasty sinus infection—and then an allergic reaction to the prescribed antibiotic. So, between finishing various deliverables, I’ve been trying to catch up on my opensolaris.org mailing list traffic. This afternoon, I got to ogb-discuss, the Governing Board alias, which has been exploring [...]
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Since I bumped into a couple of problems after moving to Build 53, I thought I should make a note and save folks some time. My laptop’s a reasonably standard install, but I do turn off a few more daemons, in the hope of squeezing out a few minutes’ more battery life. With the new [...]
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About six weeks ago, in anticipation of GNOME 2.16, I switched my desktop from an Ion window manager-based X11 environment to the JDS environment integrated with Solaris. Now, with the delivery of Build 53—not yet on the Download Centre, apparently—the wait is over: [Formerly, a scaled down screenshot of a system running Build 53.] A [...]
I’ll be visiting Argentina for the first time, to present at the upcoming TechDays in Buenos Aires. As with all TechDays, the event itself is free, but you must register in advance. The event is being held at the Hilton Buenos Aires; OpenSolaris day is 23 October. As always, if you want to meet up [...]
I’ll be up in the Seattle area for 5 – 7 September—I’ll be presenting on OpenSolaris at the upcoming Tech Days there. If you’re interested in attending, then get over to the registration site; the event is free, but space is limited. (Undecided? Peruse the Seattle agenda.) If you’d like to have a beer or [...]
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For me, on the whole, this week was a pretty good one. Dave and I wrapped up some interface work on Wednesday (and one of my favourite projects, Visual Panels, went public using the project hosting on opensolaris.org). And we’ve been making progress on many fronts for OpenSolaris: the source code management evaluation is starting [...]
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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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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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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 [...]
Once again, we’ve sent a delegation of engineers to Portland for OSCON. The absence of that group—Bryan, Keith, and Liane are there —and of the many other folks involved with OpenSolaris, plus the usual August vacations, is leaving the halls here in Menlo Park rather quiet. Of course, while I may be enjoying an audible [...]
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