that’s whacked

nightly 20060228 delivered!

Tuesday, Feb 28. 2006  –  Category: OpenSolaris

this delivery is from the 2006-02-27 nightly, which, if you look at the ON build schedule, means we just closed for build 35. but if you read my recent blog post you’ll see why i’m not calling this build 35. what i’ll be doing from here on is delivering nightly deliveries every Tuesday, and making additional build-synchronised deliveries when a build closes. so you should look for a b35 delivery later this week. this way, the nightly deliveries will track onnv-gate closer, and more frequently - while distributions looking for more “stability” can use a build synchronised delivery.

anyway, hit up the download center here or get your source-viewing action on at the source browser or just go checkout the HTML changelog if you care.

when a nightly that closes on a build date isn’t a build

Tuesday, Feb 28. 2006  –  Category: OpenSolaris

previously, every delivery we made was of a build snapshot. now that we’ve moved to weekly snapshot deliveries, i’ve moved to calling them nightly (as in synchronised with the 2006-02-28 nightly), rather than build-synchronised deliveries.

however, it’s important to still keep build-synchronised deliveries for projects like Xen & BrandZ which need build-synchronised sources to patch against.

there’s one problem though.

if you look at the ONNV build schedule, we see that 2006-02-27 is the close date for build 35. So the delivery that I will make later today (2006-02-28) means it should be build 35, right? Not exactly.

Danek, our illustrious and overworked ON gatekeeper, is responsible for delivering onnv_35 (the ON sources for Solaris Nevada build 35) to the WOS (i.e.: Wad Of Stuff… all the consolidations that go to make Solaris Nevada build 35). If it turns out that the 2006-02-27 nightly has problems, Danek may back out putbacks, or pull in put putbacks that happened post-build-close-date before delivering it to the WOS.

So what does that mean for the OpenSolaris community? Well, I can continue to deliver on time weekly deliveries… but this means that my nightly deliveries that sync on a build-close-date may not necessarily be exactly what comprises that build (in terms of Solaris Express). OR, I can delay deliveries in order to match up exactly with ON’s builds.

Personally, I much prefer to do the first option. This means that the source code you see is exactly what we’re working on internally - with no one-week delay. And whatever bug you may or may not see that Danek would have folded back in to the build snapshot, will probably (hopefully?) be resolved by the following week’s delivery.

ringtones!

Saturday, Feb 25. 2006  –  Category: Musings

i got a new phone… a Motorola RAZR V3c (yup, I’m still with Verizon). i was happy to see that my ringtones website that i made a couple of years ago still works as a cheap (25 cents per ringtone/PIX msg sent) way of getting ringtones onto the phone so i don’t have to use Verizon’s outrageously expensive GIN (Get It Now)/VCast crap.

though, it also looks like certain V3c’s (with the 0.2 firmware) escaped Verizon’s bluetooth-hammer unscathed with full Bluetooth OBEX enabled. i’ll have to check that out to see if mine is one of those lucky few.

opensolaris stanford presentation

Friday, Feb 24. 2006  –  Category: OpenSolaris

to the Stanford students I presented to today:

here is the presentation. i hope the talk was informative feel free to comment with any questions/comments below…

nightly 20060222 delivered

Wednesday, Feb 22. 2006  –  Category: OpenSolaris

this delivery is from the 2006-02-22 nightly, which, if you look at the ON build schedule, means we’re somewhere in the middle-ish of build 35.

hit up the download center here or get your source-viewing action on at the source browser or just go checkout the HTML changelog (or look at the sparse changelog for just the bugids)

but of course, before you do any of that, do please read the README as always.

new for this delivery, per the request of many people, we are providing the MD5 sums.

Even Helicopter Fails to Find an Escaped Dog - New York Times

Friday, Feb 17. 2006  –  Category: Musings

Even Helicopter Fails to Find an Escaped Dog - New York Times Even Helicopter Fails to Find an Escaped Dog

It’s nice to see that in this age of bombings, landslides, terrorism, riots, protest, etc… that a stupid freaking missing dog article has been SITTING ON THE FRONT PAGE OF GOOGLE NEWS ALL DAY.

Aaargh. Don’t get me wrong… I love dogs - but is this seriously that big a deal that it warrants all this attention?!?

6 weeks, and feelin’ like crap

Friday, Feb 17. 2006  –  Category: Musings

so after taking a very laaazy vacation for 4 weeks, and then 2 weeks of being sick, and missing ultimate - i finally got back out in full force yesterday, playing my usual lunch-time pickup and then heading out in the evening for my much-missed league game.

lunch pickup was fun. nothing spectacular, but it felt good to get running again.

league started out on a good note… scored two points early on, and then proceeded to suck it up badly. i dropped a pull for a turnover to the other team 2 feet away from the endzone. ouch. i was starting to feel pretty bad about my play, until the last point when on a quick turnover to our team, i bolted for the endzone hoping PK would pull a long huck. he did, i went all out for it, felt my left calf muscle tighten up, kept on running for it - and caught it.

and then i got mauled by the f-ing idiot trying to cover me.

anyway, that point made up for the whole night. i felt great. until i realised my leg muscles were cramping up all over. this morning i rolled out of bed, tried to stand up and promptly collapsed. i’m definitely feeling the pain of 2 and a half hours of ultimate play.

but damn it felt great!

nightly 20060214 (build 34) delivered

Thursday, Feb 16. 2006  –  Category: OpenSolaris

i need to make a template for these sorts of announcements…

this delivery is from the 2006-02-14 nightly, which, if you look at the ON build schedule, of course means it’s build 34.

hit up the download center here or get your source-viewing action on at the source browser or just go checkout the HTML changelog (or look at the sparse changelog for just the bugids)

but of course, before you do any of that, do please read the README as always.

Man menaces cops with didgeridoo

Thursday, Feb 16. 2006  –  Category: Linkage, Musings

Man menaces cops with didgeridoo | The Register A man was today sentenced to 180 hours’ community service for threatening police with a didgeridoo after shouting: “Come on then. I’ll have you,” in the traditional British style.

rofl. i love it. it’s just… so English (wrt to the “Come on then. I’ll have you” threat). and come on, you gotta love a guy who attacks another guy with a didgeridoo. i mean, that’s just awesome.

Upon leaving the court today, Jones said: “I had only just started to learn to play the didgeridoo too.”

this reminds me of my parents’ tenant (who lived in a townhouse we own and rented out in Cupertino) who used to be an Apple engineer, but went a little nuts after losing his job. we got a call one day from a neighbour who said there were 3 cop cars outside our townhouse, and that the tenant was threatening police with a weapon. turns out he was pointing his flute out the kitchen window.

OpenSolaris Expert Exchange transcript up

Monday, Feb 13. 2006  –  Category: OpenSolaris

the transcript of the OpenSolaris Expert Exchange that i participated in last week is now up