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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I was out with sick children last week and have been engaged in a form of mental wrestling learning the Dvorak keyboard for the past two—both impediments to concentration, and thus to smooth blogging. Everybody is on the mend; evening wakeups are on the decline. I no longer want to hurl my keyboard across the [...]
August was hectic. smf(5) required care and feeding, as did our newborn Nathaniel. I took a strange kind of quasi-paternity leave, by remaining home Tuesdays and Thursdays. (Don’t do this—you’re left with very few long concentration blocks on the workdays.) I also took Ben to Muskoka to celebrate a family history centennial, and we all [...]
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There’s a sizeable troupe of kernel engineers at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention this week, so once again the office is a little quieter. (Bryan‘s around, so the office isn’t silent.) Most of the blog entries are “the author has left the building” style, but I’m hoping that those of us who remain chained to [...]
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Adam seems to have recovered from his initial embarrassment regarding the alleged lack of novelty around describing a Solaris 9 feature. There’s no such shame here—I look at S9 at one of our Dangerfield releases (along with S7), that didn’t get the respect it deserved. (There’s no comparison to S10.) I mentioned in a previous [...]
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With the DTrace folks at the USENIX Technical Conference, a contingent at JavaOne, and the remainder focussed on finishing their work for Solaris 10, it’s pretty quiet at the office. Oh, except for the fact that my team’s multi-year project is wending its way through the final stages of the processes surrounding Solaris integration. Checklist, [...]
There’s now at least two good reasons for my hiatus.
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Although I’ve been blogging privately and on the web statically for a while now, it’s pleasant to have a location to discuss Solaris and Sun specific information. I work on a couple of different projects, of varying sizes; in the past, I’ve done (I believe) interesting work in resource management, routine work fixing various bugs, [...]
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