iPad Review
DISCLAIMER: I say "iPhone" when I technically should say "iPod Touch". iPad has no mic and no phone. But, I say iPhone because thats the device most of us have and use for real applications. You know what I mean. One of the perks of working for a jazzy startup like Joyent who's had a good year: free iPad's for all. Our Christmas bonus from Joyent. w00t. So I pre-ordered mine and got it today, as promised by Apple. So, lets get ...
Solaris No Longer Free
Hot on the heals of Oracle's revamp of Solaris support, the licensing agreement for free downloads of Solaris 10 have changed. Infoworld broke the news on Friday. Here is the bit in question. Notice this paragraph in the Licensing Agreement: "Obtaining an Entitlement Document is simple. On the Solaris 10 Get It page, select the platform and format you desire from the drop-down menus, and then click the Download Solaris 10 button. ...
How Oracle Wants It
We're getting more of a taste as to the "new reality". Most of the news is of the "Surprised, but knew this was coming" variety. Motley Fool has a good write-up about the Oracle earnings announcement and how Sun's impacting the bottom line as well as changes coming. Some of the include getting rid of all unprofitable resale deals, such as Veritas and Hitachi products. CIO Mag dips into the new "All or Nothing" support model being ...
Friday Pick-Me-Up
Best lightsaber duel. ever. Also... your desktop is getting old... Get some new wallpaper. If those don't fit your style, try VladStudio.
Results of the 2010 OpenSolaris Election
The results are in. We have a new OGB and a new Constitution. Your board shall be: Dennis Clarke Moinak Ghosh Teresa Giacomini Simon Phipps John Plocher Joerg Schilling Peter Tribble This is the most radical election to date. Only one of the members is a current Sun/Oracle employee (the lovely Teresa Giacomini). Moinak Ghosh of Belenix fame represents divergant distros and is ex-Sun. John & Simon are ex-Sun. ...
OpenSolaris Elections: Go Vote!
It's that time, make sure you don't forget to Vote in the OpenSolaris annual elections. You'll notice that I'm not going to comment on the issue of the constitution this year, but I do ask for you to consider Octave Orgeron, Joerg Schilling, Peter Tribble, Moinak Ghosh, and all the community guys for OGB. There is a great list of folks on the ballot, including also John Plocher and Dennis Clarke who are fantastic enthusiastic folks.
Frustration
root@quatro src$ uname -a SunOS quatro 5.11 snv_133 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris root@quatro src$ pkg search gcc Segmentation Fault (core dumped) root@quatro src$ exit exit benr@quatro src$ pkg search gcc Segmentation Fault benr@quatro src$ pfexec pkg search gcc INDEX ACTION VALUE PACKAGE description set GCC pkg:/SUNWgccruntime@3.4.3-0.97 description set GCC ...
FAST 2010 Proceedings Available
I've missed FAST 2010 yet again.... but, good news! The complete FAST 2010 Proceedings (PDF) are available for free. USENIX members can also view the presentation videos online.
SysAdmin’s Get It Done
I'm not a huge fan of XKCD, but this is classic: BTW, if you don't play Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (1 or 2), you should start. Amazing game. Props to my fellow snipers.
Phoronix on “The Five Stages of Benchmark Loss”
Phoronix has quickly risen as my favorite review site (along with Anandtech). They focus more on the *NIX world than other sites and have set the bar for a benchmark review site. In particular thanks to the Phoronix Test Suite, a venerable suite of benchmarks beautifully weaved together. Did I mention they like OpenSolaris? That helps too. :) They recently uploaded a presentation by site founder Michael Larabel entitled: The Five ...