[sfwnv-discuss] draft webrev for star integration into SFWNV Darren offers up a webrev showing how straightforward the "technical" part of integrating a component into SFW is.

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I’m sure that there are Firefox users out there who want to restore their previous session; I never do, and so deactivating that dialog is a big timesaver. If you search, you’ll find a few writeups on how to adjust the configuration, but I want to document the minimum steps to suppress the restore session [...]

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Busted Tees – Indiana Pwns Tempting…

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White-tailed Kite Maybe what I saw at Ano Nuevo SR last week.

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Tokyo Cabinet: a modern implementation of DBM "Tokyo Cabinet is a library of routines for managing a database. The database is a simple data file containing records, each is a pair of a key and a value. Every key and value is serial bytes with variable length. Both binary data and character string ca

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For the Thanksgiving holiday this year, we decided to explore San Mateo County’s section of the Pacific Coast. Dina settled on Butano State Park as our base, which is mostly made of a redwoods-forested canyon, south of Pescadero and on the western slopes of the Santa Cruz Mountains. We arrived in the late afternoon, having [...]

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NOAA Still Sees Above Average Temperatures for Most of the U.S. and Below Normal Precipitation Across the South The 2007 winter outlook: a La Nina year, with typical temperatures, drier than average along the California coast.

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number 9 : Dvorak on Solaris Rasputnik uses xmodmap to remap to a Dvorak layout.

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I just want to mention that I knew Alan before his current fifteen minutes.

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Most Fridays, I spend the two hours before lunch assisting at our co-operative daycare. The hour and a half before are pretty good thinking hours, most of which lately have been spent on packaging. As the year passes, and we move into fall here in Northern California, the thinking’s been best assisted by having a [...]

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So there are a few ways to get a copy of the Indiana preview ISO: via HTTP from dlc.sun.com, via HTTP from genunix.org, via HTTP from osol.acm.jhu.edu, via FTP from ftp.df.lth.se, or via BitTorrent. Both our mirrors are in Northern California, so—since it’s a completely redistributable set of software—if you’re interested in being a mirror [...]

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mozilla.org – Code Review FAQ Mozilla FAQ around their code review process, which has a super reviewer much like the RTI advocate model we use.

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RFC 3852 Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) "This document describes the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS). This syntax is used to digitally sign, digest, authenticate, or encrypt arbitrary message content."

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Over the past week, as we kept reassembling the distro constructor, image packaging, and slim install, we tested installs on a bunch of laptops. This manual operation let me rehearse how to get things working if the Preview LiveCD doesn’t have a graphics driver that will work. So: here’s the VESA workaround. Boot text mode. [...]

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Dario Taraborelli: The beauty of LaTeX Nice summary and short collection of links.

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Open Source Unleashed: A pot for Sun’s open source potpourri? I believe Alex is looking for something more unified or coherent across Sun’s open source communities, but I’m not sure exactly what. (Reread later, maybe?)

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Danek and I are at the 2007 OpenSolaris Developer Summit at UC Santa Cruz, talking about and, I hope, later demonstrating the image packaging prototype so far. I gave a brief overview of the project’s goals and status, and mentioning some of the unmentionables we’ve encountered—some particularly undisciplined configuration files, some apparently important but encumbered [...]

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Predictable – pkg(5): Talking in the redwoods, talking on the beach, … I’ve been at the 2007 OpenSolaris Developer Summit, presenting and discussing where we are in the current image packaging prototype.

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“Why Programmers suck at Picking Colors” (Stefano’s Linotype) A review leading to a NASA colour picker implementing selection based on the Munsell colour system.

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"Why Programmers suck at Picking Colors" (Stefano’s Linotype) A review leading to a NASA colour picker implementing selection based on the Munsell colour system.

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Last October, the New York Times was considering extreme yachts: “Today, a megayacht is indispensable,” said Olivier Milliex, head of yacht finance at the Dutch bank ING. “It’s not like 15 years ago, when a yacht was a luxury item.” Hmm. I don’t have one, so I think “indispensible” isn’t the right word. Perhaps “megayacht [...]

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OpenSolaris New User FAQ – Genunix Brian’s led an effort to produce a FAQ targetted at new users of OpenSolaris. Peruse, contribute, etc.

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Brian Marick – Writings Brian writes on a variety of software development topics. His paper, "How to misuse code coverage", provides a good explanation of what you do and don’t know after a code coverage assessment.

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I asked my teammates to take a brief break from prototyping, and we jumped from a collection of systems inside Sun to the clean project hosting at opensolaris.org. As the migration registers, you should be able to access the project web site at http://opensolaris.org/os/project/pkg/, the Mercurial repository via $ hg clone ssh://anon@hg.opensolaris.org/hg/pkg/gate pkg-gate the same [...]

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