I’ve been back from Buenos Aires for a week now, and just wanted to comment on my trip, and show the few pictures I managed to take. Like its sister events, Buenos Aires TechDays was a densely packed three day conference, with multiple tracks available on OpenSolaris, Java, NetBeans, SunStudio, Glassfish, and other technologies and [...]

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Jeff Bonwick’s Weblog: ZFS Block Allocation Jeff describes the steps involved in allocating blocks across devices in ZFS. (Interested in OS work? Note the open areas of investigation, involving optimum handling in the case of failures and in the cases of different kinds of data.)

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NOAA News Online (Story 2724) NOAA’s winter weather outlook for 2006-2007. It’s apparently a mild El Niño year, but doesn’t look like we’ll see the rains of ’97-’98.

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TinyMCE Javascript Content Editor by Moxiecode Systems AB A JavaScript WYSIWYG HTML editor component.

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OpenSolaris Forums: ON Mercurial repository mirror … Steve announces the availability of a public live read-only Mercurial repository for ON. It’s bridged from the main ON TeamWare repository, so new code is available to all, as soon as it’s integrated.

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tumgreyspf: Greylisting and SPF for Postfix in Python A different greylisting implementation for Postfix. No database dependencies.

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Improving the Availability and Performance of Network-Mediated Services A now-older investigation into load balancing proxy servers, here SOCKS4/5 and HTTP.

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At work, I’ve ended up on many email aliases; since we moved to pursuing open development on opensolaris.org, my subscriptions and incoming email flow have grown tremendously, to the point where they were interfering with my ability to get work done. My present filter setup involves delivery to 56 inboxes. I’ve had a small email [...]

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At work, I’ve ended up on many email aliases; since we moved to pursuing open development on opensolaris.org, my subscriptions and incoming email flow have grown tremendously, to the point where they were interfering with my ability to get work done. My present filter setup involves delivery to 56 inboxes. I’ve had a small email [...]

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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 [...]

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Parallel BZIP2 (PBZIP2) A parallel implementation of the bzip2 compression implementation, using POSIX threads. C++, wrapping base routines from libbz2.

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milek’s blog: SMF management for normal users Robert gives an example of authorization assignments so that an unprivileged user can manage a service via smf(5).

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Derek Crudgington » Blog Archive » SMF Monitor Alert v1 Derek’s got a preliminary release of a daemon that monitors smf(5) managed services.

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Solaris PowerPC Port at OpenSolaris.org The effort to bring OpenSolaris back to PowerPC made its first large code drop today.

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Mailgraph Homepage “A very simple mail statistics RRDtool frontend for Postfix and Sendmail”, by the author of Postgrey.

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Martin Englund’s Weblog: Mercurial for TeamWare users Martin assembled a quick concept map from TeamWare commands to Mercurial commands.

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Martin Englund’s Blog: Migrating from TeamWare to a new SCM And Martin’s been looking at the performance and resource issues anticipated by the SCM switch for Java.

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Kelly O’Hair’s Blog: Teamware, Mercurial, and SCCS revs that go bump in the night Kelly, on the technical aspects of converting TeamWare history to Mercurial.

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Mark Reinhold?s Other Blog: Source-code management for an open JDK Mark’s the Chief Engineer for Java SE, which is shifting to become an open development project. Here Mark talks about their intent to investigate Mercurial as a preferred SCM candidate, as OpenSolaris did.

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Solaris vs. Asterisk running Asterisk PBX A comparison of various systems running the Asterisk software PBX.

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Google testing Sun’s OpenSolaris, sources say Eric Lai finds other organizations are deploying or reevaluating OpenSolaris as well.

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Gary Pennington is attending EuroOSCON, being held this week in Brussels. He’s reporting on the various sessions. Worth a read, particularly if you’ve not been to an open source conference in a while… [ T: OpenSolaris Solaris EuroOSCON Brussels ]

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My flight to Seattle’s TechDays a couple of weeks ago ended up being delayed by about an hour, so I had enough reading time to finish the second edition of Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville‘s Information Architecture for the World Wide Web. Because the book’s publication date is 2002, the various dynamic elements of AJAX-style [...]

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It’s nice to be in Seattle. I spent a couple of weeks on the UW campus a dozen or so years ago; on customer visits, we’re ususally in a suburb. Enjoying the chance to wander in a different downtown, I decided to walk from the hotel to the TechDays site, at Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, [...]

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