Recently, I’ve been experimenting with supervisor, which is a Python-based process restarter for Unix/Linux. Lincoln Loop recently offered instructions on running supervisor under upstart, which is applicable to some of the current Linux distributions. On OpenSolaris and related systems, the service management facility, smf(5), can be used to ensure your supervisors stay online. Below is [...]
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The coffee stations in MPK17 are popular choices for technical discussions. Some go longer than others, and occasionally result in byproducts. I wouldn’t want to hazard a guess about how long a discussion resulted in this byproduct, which popped up sometime at the end of last week: I wonder if the original discussion ever resolved… [...]
We’re just wrapping up the live chat for the launch, with interested folks moving to freenode in #os200811. Here’s a quick photo of Danek, Dave, and Bart responding intently to the questions and comments earlier this morning. As you can see, every question is taken seriously… [ T: OpenSolaris IRC ]
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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 [...]
OpenSolaris just turned two—enjoy some good food and good company in the Northern California sun. Tomorrow’s first ever OpenSolaris picnic [Upcoming] will be at
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Midday during the anniversary, a few of us zipped off campus for a short lunch in downtown Redwood City. Obviously, this was part shared celebration, but also I wanted to make sure that Dan and Steve exited #opensolaris in favour of a few minutes outdoors and some refueling. I’m not enough of a photographer to [...]
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Gary and I were recently prototyping an application that uses Java RMI, and so I ended up searching around to see if anyone has done a service conversion for rmiregistry(1). (rmiregistry(1) is the daemon that lets RMI clients find the available remote objects being served by various virtual machines on a given system.) Turns out [...]
I’m not the most device-laden person around here—by far. But I occasionally like to carry a camera and my Visor, as well as the obligatory tether-phone. An extra pocket would be nice, as wearing a jacket (with its 2 – 6 pockets) is uncomfortable for much of the year in a California climate. I always [...]
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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 ]
The rest of the family didn’t have vacation time, beyond the Fourth of July weekend, so I got a chance to do some reading and to write some code. I am particularly excited to use tag(1) at work: my home directory is hosted on the main zfs(7FS) server, which means practically unlimited metadata. Tagging—I hope—will [...]
In honour of the “Mugs for Manifests” contest, I thought I would spin out another custom service description I wrote some months ago. My setup for working from home—key during the last six months of Solaris 10—is to tunnel into Sun’s network via one implementation or another of a virtual private network (VPN). In all [...]
So, while I wore the final symmetric/named knot at the OpenSolaris CAB dinner, I haven’t stopped wearing ties to work. I’m tying a variety of knots for four-in-hand ties—Nickys and half-Windsors for the most part—plus the occasional bow-tie. As far as I can determine, it hasn’t affected my work. This is, of course, my wrap-up [...]
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Tie knot: Knot 78 (Balthus).
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For various reasons—some reasonable, some suspect—Solaris doesn’t ship with a compiled set of windex databases for its manual pages. The unfortunate result is that helpful commands like apropos(1) or man -k are unhelpful: $ apropos sort /usr/man/windex: No such file or directory < p> smf(5) provides one way to address this shortcoming, via a transient [...]
Tie knot: No time, no knot, alas.
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Tie knot: Knot 5 (Pratt or Shelby).
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Tie knot: Knot 25 (Christiansen).
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Tie knot: Knot 6 (Prince Albert variation).
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A rainy stretch here in Northern California is keeping me off the court while my body repairs itself. But I’ll need to go practise in the wet if I’m ever to get my jump shot back… Tie knot: Knot 44 (Grantchester).
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Tie knot: Knot 31 (Windsor).
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Tie knot: Knot 18 (Plattsburgh).
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I’m a little sore and a bit bruised: I’ve started playing pick-up basketball on the outdoor court here at the Menlo Park campus. I pretty much stopped when we started (a) work on smf(5), and (b) parenting—three years. (Finishing my dissertation also required a break, but not nearly as long as this one.) I feel [...]
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As a California-residing, code-writing Sun engineer, I don’t have a lot of sartorial restrictions beyond the standard requirements for coverage. It’s been a bit of a shock, therefore, to co-workers and long time customers to catch me wearing a necktie. The most common question is “Are you interviewing?” Which, given that whole writing-code-in-California bit, isn’t [...]