I seeded the 2008.05 release candidate for about 45 hours, ultimately shipping a little over 4100 megabytes. I’m going to take a break, because I want to update my DP2-based workstation and get some work done, but, once we have new bits, I’ll getting seeding again.
(I found the actual result: 4237MiB sent up, so [...]
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 [...]
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 toolset built around the [...]
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 toolset built around the [...]
For the OpenSolaris governance discussions, the community is using the wiki at genunix.org. The genunix team installed Mediawiki, used most famously for the Wikipedia, to support communal editing.
I’m a creature of Vim, and am quite happy with the recently released Vim 7. Tying the external editor feature of Wikipedia to Vim is straightforward, if you install Erik Möller’s ee script—and [...]
I’ve been wrapping up our tax returns, running reviews and reviewing an actual paper copy. One document (well, two) that I couldn’t find were the bills from the California Department of Motor Vehicles for the car registrations. But I was very pleased to find that they have an online retrieval system to help [...]
I was having a bit of trouble with duplicate entries from Word Pre.cio.us (for entries containing ‘\” characters in their title, and so was fiddling with transforming the bookmarks at del.icio.us, deleting duplicate posts, finally debugging the Word Pre.cio.us import code, and converting the bookmark titles back.
Sadly, some of the dates on the bookmarks got [...]
I decided to start pulling my del.icio.us stream in—I’d been debating whether to republish it here or on my work blog for a couple of weeks. The Word Pre.cio.us script, patch, and CSS are a reasonably elegant way to present the new posts, but there appear to be a couple of kinks to work out. [...]
As I did last year, I’m again reviewing the year from the perspective of blueslugs.com.
Overview. Over 2005, we served up a total of over 8.3 GB of data, through our standard static DSL line: almost an order of magnitude higher than last year. 5.6 GB was blueslugs.com, while the remaining 2.7 GB was from the new domain, highmaintenancemom.com, which is Dina’s [...]
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 [...]
One of the aspects that kept me up late writing the tag(1) entry was getting MathML to work. Getting itex2MLL to compile was easy, but correcting the various WordPress templates took longer.
This morning I found that the SecureImage plugin needs a very small change to make its output strict XHTML:
$ diff secureimage.php.org secureimage.php 347c347 < [...]
I’ve been using the social bookmarking service, del.icio.us, for a while now, and have watched similar tagging features move from site to site as a flexible way to lightly categorize various resources: bookmarks, blog posting, photos, etc. It’s therefore a little strange that no one has written a simple utility to give you [...]
I left a BitTorrent session open all day, to make a little contribution to sharing some of the code from OpenSolaris. No real load on our unexpected new server, but 413 MB shipped in 9 hours through our little pipette of a ADSL line. I’ll have to use trickle if I’m going to [...]
I’ve been sketching out how to gradually modernize our network infrastructure: replacing a 10Mbps combination router/hub with a 1Gb switch and a 10/100Mb VPN, or a similar combination. (I’ll leave the wireless on 802.11b until Dina upgrades her laptop.) To make this simple, I’m reducing the services on the current router, and [...]
I’ve been working on the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory (YVO) website for the U.S. Geological Survey in anticipation of the release of the new Supervolcano movie and I needed to change the coordinates for the logos in our header. As a Mac BBEdit user, I wanted a simple program that gave me the functionality of a [...]
We’re regular, but not heavy Netflix users. For the most part, Dina and I have our own entente cordiale regarding our movie selections, meaning that we can each watch the other’s “dumb movies”. What is still difficult is the handling of whose movies will come by post next. (Netflix is a [...]
blueslugs.com turned five this week. A reasonable time to take stock. The domain’s first days were hosted over the DSL line in our apartment in Menlo Park on—wait for it—a PowerMac 7100 running MkLinux. Since then, it’s been hosted on an Ultra 10, a Netra T1, and finally on a Shuttle, running various versions of [...]
I had built an early version of libxosd for my Solaris SPARC systems a year or two ago, since it provides a very tidy way to have a ubiquitous onscreen clock with a wide variety of window managers. libxosd went, when I was distracted, through a substantial rewrite, culminating in a 2.2.x series release. [...]
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I’m often manipulating over 100 files when I’m making modifications to various software components. Generally, the buffers menu in Vim (X11/Motif) handles this okay, unless all of the files are named with the same letters. In a recent batch of changes, 90 of my files were named “Makefile”, “prototype_com”, or “pkginfo.tmpl”; this results [...]
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I figured I should mention that I’m going to make most of my Solaris-specific comments on my blog at blogs.sun.com. We’ll see if I can keep the topics meaningful and interesting on both, without halving my posting rate on each.
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I use ion as my window manager, but have recently switched my home desktop from a G4 Cube to a PC running Solaris. I’m a regular full-screen VNC user, and getting vncviewer and ion to cooperate is pretty key. Fullscreen mode can be achieved using vncviewer and ion (from blastwave, or build them [...]
Here’s an interesting survey: Sun wants to know how secure the default install for Solaris 10 should be. If you listened to the NetTalk on Wednesday, then you might be able to guess that your input here probably means more work for my team and me.
(I suppose I should really split work blogging from [...]
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Stephen’s one of the so-called “rocket scientists” in the Solaris 10 Technical Discussion being offered as a NetTalk tomorrow. (It’s at 1pm PDT.) You can register for the live session (or for details about hearing a replay later).
(You would think folks would rather hear from computer scientists or software engineers or operating systems [...]
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I’ve been using a dual Opteron as my primary desktop lately, but Solaris doesn’t support the sound device included on its motherboard. After asking around about the likelihood of support arriving, I was told that one possible path was to use a USB Audio device instead.
So I drove off to Fry’s to look around [...]
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