CanvasGraph.js : Graphing in Javascript | liquidx Graphing in the browser–needs Firefox 1.5, but very useful once canvas support widespread.
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Observations from a West Coast family
File: 2005
A while back, I was speculating about getting a new camera. I finally gave up using the S30 with the broken screen and decided to act. Although I showed some recent system-administration-confererence-action shots, indoor snapshots are never as much fun. So when we decided to go see the visiting reindeers—from central Oregon apparently—at the San [...]
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James Dickens spied a new BluePrint on the planned redeployment of store.sun.com [PDF] to SunFire T2000 systems running Solaris 10. Beyond the tremendous reduction in occupied space and the around 90 percent estimated reduction in input power and output heat, the document describes the use of Solaris Containers to consolidate the middle tier servers, complete [...]
[ Alice Sturgis, The Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure, 4e., Mc Graw-Hill, 2000. ] As I mentioned, I wanted to make sure the team gave some additional support to the governance work being done for OpenSolaris. When I thought about it for a little bit, I realized that, while we have recent and valuable experiences [...]
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 ]
After commiserating with my room’s ceramic bunny—his feet are glued to the cabinet’s top and so he has limited opportunities for conversation—I finished packing and headed out for the last few hours of LISA05. First up was the last papers session, with Liane presenting on smf(5), in addition to papers on a spreadsheet-based scripting environment [...]
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Thursday evening was a series of sponsored events. The LISA reception was a combination of dinner, desserts, drinks, and a miniature casino floor: A fascinating part of the reception was the balloon assemblies produced by the man pictured; here he’s making a birthday cake hat: People lucky enough to receive wings, a palm tree hat [...]
Warren Strange: SMF manifest for SlimServer A service conversion for SlimServer.
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I went to the midday configuration management theory session as well as to Matt Blaze’s plenary. (I missed the invited talks as I lost track of time during a late lunch.) The talk I enjoyed out of the theory session was by Alva Couch and colleagues from Tufts, who presented steps towards a cost model [...]
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While I’ve been listening to various talks, other folks have been answering questions about Solaris, the new systems, and other Sun products in our booth on the vendor floor. We have a double wide, and it was busy whenever I passed by during session breaks: In addition to the engineers I’ve mentioned were here, Cindy [...]
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After a rapidly served and consumed dinner at Taste of Thai, the Solaris BoF squad headed back for the Wednesday session at 9 pm. The room filled up fast, with some folks ultimately having to stand in the back: I decided to spell Jonathan as T-shirt gerbil, and was happy to give out Sara‘s OpenSolaris [...]
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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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One of the questions raised at Tuesday night’s BoF was “why are some of the statistics that iostat -E displays result in a console message and some do not?” I was sitting in the back with a copy of Mike Kupfer’s split ON source tree, and decided to have a look. iostat(1M) is a kstat [...]
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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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I ordered an additional drive for our long running Series 1 Tivo last week from one of the firms that specializes in such things. The drive “marriage” didn’t go well, and the unit was stuck at the Green Screen of Death—and, since these upgrades are supposed to just work, I didn’t have a backup. Scrambling [...]
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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 [...]
By the way, Dina went to Fairbanks a few weeks ago, enjoyed the chilly contrast with Bay Area weather, and had a productive and fun visit. And, to keep karmic scales in balance, I caught a nasty cold for reminding her of the low low temperatures she could expect.
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Nathaniel has keen vision; we often see mourning doves on the power and telephone lines that pass by the front of our house and he is happy to point them out. And occasionally, a raucous crow will perch in one of the nearby trees or atop a pole shouldering the local lines. But a couple [...]
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So both Dan Price and Ben Rockwood have asked again and again and again for Audacity, a free audio editor, to be ported to Solaris. A reasonable challenge. After a bit of fiddling and some decisions, I have a functional version of Audacity 1.2.3. Whether or not this will result in me issuing podcasts, mixes, [...]
It’s a balmy 9°F (-13°C) tonight in Fairbanks, although with windchill it feels like -6°F (-21°C). Why one would be naked and outdoors to verify that measurement is beyond me.
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The current temperature in Fairbanks, Alaska is again -6°F, or -21°C.
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[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 [...]