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funinthesunatsun

Friday, May 20. 2005  –  Category: Sun

yesterday was a fun day. our veep got our division (the operating platforms group) tickets to go see Star Wars yesterday. i have to say, it was pretty good. aside from the cheesy love lines:

anakin: padme, i love you! padme: but i love you! anakin: you’re beautiful! padme: only because i love you!

ugh. but some other parts were great. (spoiler alert, maybe) the light saber battles were amazing. and the death of the jedi was actually really pretty moving.

today was my work from home day… and what a day it was. wow, the sun came out and was just beating down all day. i sat out on the deck and had a really nice relaxing day of work. i met up with jesse for lunch at The Cheeseboard in Berkeley for some great pizza. we had some trouble finding seating and ended sitting in the traffic median, right next to the sign which said “KEEP OFF MEDIAN” (which i actually used as a backrest). after our illegal sitting we swung by the UC parking office where I parked illegally in front while waiting for Jesse to snag me a discount BART ticket.

not a bad day at all…

synergy!

Tuesday, May 17. 2005  –  Category: OpenSource

omfg. synergy is so freaking cool. i installed it this morning… the install was smooth as silk. on my Linux laptop it went on with a simple “rpm -Uvh”, and on Solaris it was a simple “./configure;make && make install”.

i was off and running in 5 minutes. i can now scroll my mouse straight off my Solaris desktop and onto my Linux laptop’s desktop. i can copy and paste, and everything.

wandering blogs

Tuesday, May 17. 2005  –  Category: Musings

time makes the blog go yonder… … or is it wander..

the truth of it is, the absence of time has made my blog wander off: i’ve just BTBTB (Been Too Busy To Blog). i’m sure that will be a catchy acronym to add to the lexicon of IMHO, IANAL, and all those other arcane internet acronyms.

what’ve i’ve been up to.. oh man. i just started doing test stuff for this new Interrupt Redistribution Daemon (Intrd) for Solaris that is a daemon that will monitor interrupt handlers on a system and try to keep them load balanced across the CPUs in the system by retargetting them such that high interrupt handlers won’t upset the balance. it’s a neat project, and has some interesting test scenarios to try and create. it’s definitely not as straightforward to test, let alone automate testing.

as for my short amount of time outside of work… wendy and i took a weekend off to go to Mendocino a few weeks ago. we brought Isis, stayed at a really cute B&B in Gualala, and had dinner in Mendocino before coming back the next day.

this past weekend i finally got back outdoors and went to Goat Rock (over in Castle Rock State Park) for the first time with Canada, and a bunch of his buddies. we just did some easy 5.5 & 5.8 climbing. nothing hard beyond my free solo of a 5.5. there’s something really free and smooth about going free solo. it’s… i dunno. very aesthetic. very relaxing.

i finally got one of the Qube 3’s up and running. i’ve had it sitting under my desk at work for ages, so i finally fixed it up, moved my 120gb hard drive into it, upgraded the firmware and the kernel to a 2.4 kernel, and plopped it in at home. it’s now our file server, mp3/photos server (for our Tivos), and i’m going to have it doing off-site backups for grommit.

i’ve got a Raq550 which i think would be a good backup drop-in replacement server for grommit just in case grommit ever bites the dust, so one of these days i should get it up and running so i can have it in-hand in case grommit ever eats the big one.

oh yeah, and i setup our new 140hour tivo in the living room. yes i have two tivos. sick isn’t it.