that’s whacked

lesbians

Monday, Feb 13. 2006  –  Category: Musings

this is only tangentially related to lesbians. i just thought it was funny that the first (most recent) link to my blog that technorati returns is “Lesbian group sex”:

Technorati Search for: whacked.net

(i made enhancements to a WordPress theme and contributed them back to the original author who linked me to give me credit, so now anyone using that theme will have a link back to my site)

open up the sound of music

Monday, Feb 13. 2006  –  Category: Linkage, Music

i’m in love with pandora

this whole cartoon mess

Saturday, Feb 11. 2006  –  Category: Musings

Update 11: Saudi Cleric Demands Trial Over Drawings – Forbes.com “Where is the world with all its agencies and organizations? Is there only freedom of expression when it involves insults to Muslims? With one voice…we will reject the apology and demand a trial,” Al Riyad, a Saudi daily newspaper, quoted al-Seedes as saying.

another quote: “It is also a disservice to democracy. It sends a conflicting message to the Muslim community: that in a democracy it is permissible to offend Islam. This message damages efforts to prove that democracy and Islam go together.”

this whole cartoon fiasco has me pretty annoyed to be honest. first off, Indonesian President Yudhoyono (the originator of that second quote) is confusing a government-model with government-ideals. there can be dictatorships with freedom of speech, just as there can be a democratically elected government which represses freedom of expression. that being said, in a country with freedom of expression/speech – it is permissable to offend anybody, within reason. i agree this is a fine line, but in the same newspapers we offend homosexuals, heterosexuals, Catholics, Protestants, Athesists, and yes…. Muslims. i’m sorry, but i can’t think of any party (political, sexual, religious, etc.) of significant size that hasn’t been up for lampooning before.

the first quote is what pisses me off the most… “Is there only freedom of expression when it involves insults to Muslims?“. uh. hi. have you actually read one of our corrupt western newspapers before? we insult lots of people. our most popular targets we insult and offend are our very own leaders: the democratically elected LEADER and representative of our country.

where was all this outrage and anger when Bin Laden twisted and distorted the image of Islam in his name when he killed innocent people in the name of Islam and the prophet? these violent protests are only serving to strengthen and support the image of violence-in-Islam that the cartoons portrayed; and that is a saddening thought.

boro over chelsea

Saturday, Feb 11. 2006  –  Category: Football

boro over chelsea??? and by a decidedly stiff 3-0 scoreline too. whodathunkit.

nightly 20060208 delivered

Wednesday, Feb 8. 2006  –  Category: OpenSolaris

everybody give a giant woot!, cause we finally managed to squeeze out a one-week interval between drops (yay for no legal hassles).

you’ll still need to have the SNMP packages, since we STILL don’t have a recent SXCR build up. (yes, i hear ya rich, but i’m afraid SXCR isn’t under my control).

as usual, the download is available at the opensolaris download center

deify?

Wednesday, Feb 8. 2006  –  Category: Musings

one of my weirdest typos yet. i meant to type:

svnadmin help deltify

instead, i typed:

svnadmin help deify

can you put your god under version control? seems blasphemous at some level. though i suppose if you were a serial religion-switcher/converter, then it makes sense: “whoa. this whole Buddhist thing isn’t working out for me. i better rollback to Christianity.”

non-debug for OpenSolaris

Wednesday, Feb 8. 2006  –  Category: OpenSolaris

alan blogged a good piece on his work doing non-debug bits for OpenSolaris

Impact Lab – Amazing Photos of China

Wednesday, Feb 8. 2006  –  Category: Musings

Impact Lab – Amazing Photos of China

These are truly some amazing photos of China. Looking through them remind me of a Miyazaki film with an outdoors unspoiled by humans. A huge difference from the cities like Beijing & Shanghai. The more I look at these the more I want to go back to China… I feel like there is so much more to the country that I haven’t yet seen.

resume formats…

Tuesday, Feb 7. 2006  –  Category: Musings

word of the wise to job applicants: it does you no favour when you apply for a job at Sun Microsystems and you attach your resume in Microsoft Word .doc format.

nightly 20060201 delivered

Friday, Feb 3. 2006  –  Category: OpenSolaris

yesterday i delivered a new source/BFU delivery to opensolaris. i’m trying to move away from calling them builds, since my hope is that we can sync them more frequently than on just build-close dates. that being said, i’ll let you in on a little secret. 20060201 happened to coincide with build 33′s close. so this is build 33.

this delivery has numerous fixes including my small putback moving Kstat to usr/src, and fixing the ACR= bug in opensolaris.sh that richlowe pointed out.

as part of my continuing delivery-automation work, it now generates a much nicer download page per delivery.

CAVEAT a.k.a. HUGE WARNING there was a flag day for this build. a new FMA SNMP module was delivered which requires the updated SNMP libraries from the SFW consolidation. obviously, this is outside the ON consolidation; this means you NEED SXCR b32 or higher to build the source for this delivery. clearly, SXCR b32 is not up yet – so basically you can’t build. sorry. you can however BFU up to b33. we’re working hard to get SXCR b33 up, but in all likelihood that won’t happen for a couple of weeks.
we’ve got a workaround that should work, i’m hoping to get that up on monday.

update: SNMP packages have been posted