that’s whacked

steve & geoff: powered by solaris

Wednesday, Aug 31. 2005  –  Category: Food, OpenSolaris

i’ve been so busy making grommit ‘powered by solaris’, i haven’t had time to post photos from last wednesday when geoff, chris, celeste, wendy, and i went to Le Cheval in Oakland for dinner. geoff already wrote all about it, so i don’t have much to add other than our own ‘powered by solaris’ photos

grommit has been solarified

Friday, Aug 26. 2005  –  Category: Computers, OpenSolaris

as i wrote on the grommit blog, grommit has been solarified.

there are still some hiccups to iron out. but in the interest of getting real work done, i had to put some stuff on the backburner.

two things that had to be done though, were to update the story of grommit, as well as…..

Test Post

Friday, Aug 26. 2005  –  Category: Computers, OpenSolaris

i spent all of last night switching grommit from Red Hat 9 to Solaris 10. ugh. it was a loooong night.

OpenSolaris audience participation time!

Thursday, Aug 25. 2005  –  Category: OpenSolaris

I’m working on the OpenSolaris Nevada build 22 source drop… one of the things Mike Kupfer and I have been working on is gradually open sourcing the drivers as we get legal clearance (and the time to do it).

So I’ve got this list of drivers… most of which are admittedly, not really sexy. I mean, it’s hard to get super enthusiastic about open sourcing the pic16f819 18/20-pin enhanced flash microcontroller driver. That deserves a big ‘ol w00t! if ever I saw.

Anyway, so it’s time for some interactive blog audience participation. Give a shout out if you want any of the following:

(the following drivers have been available in closed/binary-only form so far, but not source-form)

adm1031 (sparc)
ctsmc (sparc)
i2bsc (sparc)
ics951601 (sparc)
lm75 (sparc/x86)
ltc1427 (sparc)
max1617 (sparc)
pca9556 (sparc)
pcf8574 (sparc)
pcf8584 (sparc)
pcf8591 (sparc)
pic16f819 (sparc)
ppm (sparc)
seeprom (sparc)
smbus (sparc)
ssc050 (sparc)
ssc100 (sparc)
tda8444 (sparc)
todds1337 (sparc)
xge (sparc/x86)

(the following two drivers have never been available in any form)

grfans (sparc)
i2c_svc

my initial inkling is to open source the x86 drivers (lm75 & xge) and grfans & i2csvc since most people in the community are on x86 right now. and because grfans/i2csvc have never yet been released in any form, whereas at least the others have binaries available.

i can’t promise that i’ll open source the driver you want in time for 22, but i will put it higher up on my list of things to get to.

released Nevada build 20 source

Thursday, Aug 18. 2005  –  Category: OpenSolaris

I’m happy to say I just handed off the tarballs for our build 20 source drop (opensol-20050818). The delivery has been pretty much the same as in the past… you’ll have onbld, prebuilt BFU archives, closed-binaries (tarball), CVS repository tarball, and a source tarball.

Note that if you BFU our prebuilt archives on a sparcv9 machine, X will NOT work. I’ve made a note of this in opensolaris-code, as well as in the ReleaseNotes. You will need to apply the source patch mentioned in the opensolaris-code posting to the source and compile your own BFU archives.

One of the other changes in the delivery process is our CVS tarball now has revisions/versioning from our 3 previous source drops (launch on 06-14, 07-01, and 07-20) so you can reference changes in between our source drops. I’m working on figuring out how to get more detailed info (i.e.: our internal deltas), but that’s a trickier problem (technically, but also politically/legally).

Update: Hopefully the downloads/delivery should go live this afternoon sometime. It’s live. You can read the announcement or just go download the bits

england loses 4-1

Wednesday, Aug 17. 2005  –  Category: Football

please somebody shoot me.

or better yet, shoot David James

(p.s.: this should not be construed as an actual death threat of any kind. there are plenty of other people that are worthy of bullets more than David James…..)

getting closer to onnv 20

Monday, Aug 15. 2005  –  Category: OpenSolaris

Worked all day on getting Nevada build 20 ready for release. I was able to get an x86 (i386 and amd64) build up and running and bfu’able on a non-SWAN (Sun’s internal network) test machine today. Tomorrow I aim to get a SPARC build ready. Then it’s just (hopefully) some documentation updates, and some sanity checking/testing to get it out the door and available to the OpenSolaris community.

red bull gives you wiiiiiiings…

Monday, Aug 15. 2005  –  Category: Football

Having watched the highlights of the ManU, Arsenal, Liverpool, and Chelsea matches, I see a pattern emerging…

wingers are the new black.

Look at the new Premiership teams of today. ManU is increasingly being defined by Ronaldo and Rooney (playing on the left). Arsenal is defined by Pires, Ljungberg, and Van Persie. Chelsea has Joe Cole, Shawn Wright-Phillips, and Robben. The out and out solo run up the centre is fast becoming a rarity. When was the last time you saw Scholesy, or even Henry or Ruud come juking up through the centre to shoot straight on into the goal? It still happens, but you don’t see it as often anymore. Premiership defences are becoming better and better, and are closing down that centre pathway. Instead you see the balls coming down the side wings before cutting back into the centre for a shot.

Just a random note… not saying that one style of play is better than the other. I have to say though that Ljungberg’s cross into Van Persie’s fake/pass to Fabregas was beautiful, and that’s something that even this ManU fan can appreciate.

mindfsck

Sunday, Aug 14. 2005  –  Category: Musings

php + openssl + imaps via squirrelmail via apache2 = mindfuck

sigh. while i was trying to get this whole mess working, i thought i’d pop out to Safeway and grab some sweet potatoes to go with the filet i planned to grill for dinner. that’s weird. why doesn’t my car start?

[flashback to yesterday, when i turned on my dome light to clean up my very messy car]

[look up at said dome light's switch]

damnit.

so then i had to pop my car into neutral and push my car out of the garage. normally, with most garages, this is not too terribly hard. for those of you who have seen my garage though, you will realise what a hard task this is. for those of you who haven’t, let me just say my garage is small. small enough that it won’t fit wendy’s Toyota Camry in it. small enough that my car only fits in the garage because there is a big freaking hole cut in the firewall barrier on the back wall of the garage so my front bumper can fit through it and allow the garage door to close.

that’s how small it is. and the whole time i was trying to push it out from the side while trying to exert enough leverage on it (since i obviously couldn’t push it directly from the front, due to the wall), i had flashbacks to mechanics/force diagrams from high school physics.

sigh. well, Mr. Keller (my high school physics professor), and my various P.E. teachers over the years will be undoubtedly happy to note that i did end up getting my car out. and i still had the mental capacity to realise just as my car crested the peak of the sidewalk, that it was going to start rolling into the street. my P.E. teachers will also be happy to note (extra credit?) that i had the physical dexterity to leap over my lawn mower, jump in the front door, and yank up the parking break before my car rolled out onto the street in front of the AC Transit #53 bus which was about half a block away and steaming up the street.

yay.

now back to getting SquirrelMail working with IMAPS/TLS via PHP. urgh.

making MySQL run as an SMF service on Solaris 10

Sunday, Aug 14. 2005  –  Category: Computers, OpenSolaris

well that was easy

(thanks Scott Fehrman)