OpenSolaris Governing Board Results Are In
The election results are finally here. I am, yet again, the bridesmaid, first runner up (second runner up last time, first runner up before that). Your new board is: John Beck, Alan Coopersmith, Glynn Foster, Jim Grisanzio, Stephen Lau, Simon Phipps, and John Plocher. You'll notice that with the exception of Stephen Lau who recently left Sun for Songbird (which many people don't seem to yet realize) this is an all Sun board. ...
Appleseed Ex Machina
Recently release, Appleseed Ex Machina is a followup to the excellent CG/Anime fusion Appleseed release of 2005. Featuring a credit list that boggles the mind, including some "costumes" designed by Prada and produced by John Woo. This release is completely independent of the 2005 release, backstory, etc, is all there and only the most subtle of reference between the two exists. The underlying story isn't a terribly unique one, but as ...
NFS Server DTrace Providers; snv_85 is up!
Anyone with an NFS server will be happy to hear that an NFSv4 Server Provider was added to snv_80 and the NFSv3 provider to snv_84. snv_85 is ready for download now; I just BFU'ed my snv_75 workstation up to 85 without a problem last night. root@ultra ~$ dtrace -lP nfsv* ID PROVIDER MODULE FUNCTION NAME 70815 nfsv4 nfssrv rfs4_dispatch null-done 70816 ...
Seriously, Go Vote! Less than 12hrs left!
OpenSolaris Core Contribs, you now have less than 11 hours to vote. I admit I just put in my ballot, I understand that many others wait till the last minute just in case situations change, but don't let yourself get so busy today that you forget. Go do it now! Remember, if your SSH key hasn't changed since you voted last year, you just need to ssh poll.opensolaris.org -l benr and go through the forms. Takes less than 5 minutes if you ...
OpenSolaris Elections: Vote Now!
The OpenSolaris elections voting period is open for a 2 week period, and I know lots of people like to vote as late as possible to see what changes during that time, etc. Well, we're on the final stretch here, the polls close Monday night 1 second before midnight. Don't get caught out! Make sure you vote ASAP! Go to poll.opensolaris.org and vote now!
X4100 and X4200 Clearance @ Sun
I'm not one to really go nuts over most "clearance" sales, but I'll make an exception here. Sun has put X4100 and X4200's on Clearance! These all look to be non-M2 systems! Snatch them up while you can! If your asking, "why would I want non-M2 X4n00's?" the reason is that the X4100 M2 and X4200 M2 have 2 NVIDIA Gigabit Ethernet Ports and 2 Intel EtherPro (E1000g) Ports, versus the standard X4100/X4200's that have 4 proper E1000g's. ...
SAM/QFS Source Opened!
The wonderful day has arrived, SAM/QFS have been released to the world as code! The code is CDDL licensed and you can download the complete code now!! If your new to SAM/QFS, these two pair up to form an amazing Hierarchical Filesystem. This gives you truly tiered storage capability, moving data transparently between front-end (high-end disk) and back-end (commodity disk, tape) on demand, as well as a host of other exciting capabiliti...
NetApp’s New Identity: You paid how much!?!?!
I kid you not, NetApp has a fresh look... for review, here is the old: And the "new and improved": Uh...... ouch. Seriously. Of course, this isn't without problems, El Reg reports that the logo is already in use elsewhere. Splendid. I'll admit that the little "data arrow" above the old logo was confusing to some people, especially when on fabric, but the new one, eh, its just not distinctive and I think obscures the ...
dtrace.conf(08) Pictures
I've uploaded my dtrace.conf(08) pictures, find them on flikr here: dtrace.conf(08) pictures. These are just mine, I'm sure others took their own pictures as well. Also, I did record all 10 or so hours of the conference! I'm transcoding and prep'ing them, sorry for the lag on getting those out but I've been so busy with new ideas as a result of the conference that I've been spending my weekend in 'vi' rather than 'iMovie'. ...
OpenSolaris Election: The Amendments
I said I was done with OGB related posts for a bit, but I feel I need to talk about the amendments up for vote. If you don't want to read this whole post here's the gist: vote no on both. Both amendments were proposed by Simon Phipps and you can read his blog entry detailing them here: OpenSolaris Polling Open. Read it, think about it. Now here's my opinion on these two... The first has to do with disclosure of affiliations. This ...