that’s whacked

links for 2006-09-27

Wednesday, Sep 27. 2006  –  Category: Linkage

• how to choose an ice axe (and crampons)
  (tags: shasta)
• california dog travel guide
  dog-friendly places to stay (hotels, resorts, etc.)
  (tags: dogs)

a search for seoul

Tuesday, Sep 26. 2006  –  Category: Food, OpenSolaris

just got my confirmation that i’ll be speaking at the OpenSolaris Day for Sun Tech Days in Seoul, Korea on November 8th. double-bonus: i’ll be doing the same talk at the Kuala Lumpur event in Malaysia next year on March 6th.

i’ll be presenting the ‘Building and Deploying OpenSolaris’ talk. i’m hopefuly i can help out with the BOF too. i also heard rumblings about an OpenSolaris user group meeting. i’m super psyched. i’ve never been to South Korea before, and i’ve always wanted to check it out.

on that note, thanks to Connie for introducing Wendy and I to “Sahn Maru”, hands down our new favourite Korean restaurant. it’s at 44th & Telegraph. the black goat stew is amazing.

oh yeah - if anyone wants to meetup in Seoul - drop me a note. or let me know if there are any places you recommend checking out.

gear up!

Monday, Sep 25. 2006  –  Category: Outdoors

so i got my crampons. (i should probably figure out how to use ‘em at some point this winter)

i got a pack, which i think is probably too small (@ 2000 cubic inches), so i’ll probably have to return it. depends how much crap i need to stuff in there.

and after reading all the trip reports and accident reports (thanks jesse), i’m convinced i’m bringing an ice axe. time to go buy more gear.

(this whole trip is really just a way for me to legitimise buying more gear really)

alonso’s 70 yard goal

Thursday, Sep 21. 2006  –  Category: Football

70 f-ing yards

wow.

derosario’s goal from midfield

Wednesday, Sep 20. 2006  –  Category: Football

MLS goal of the year. hands down.

amazing

hammers

Wednesday, Sep 20. 2006  –  Category: Musings

there is nothing more satisfying than winning an ultimate game by throwing a hammer

fergie gets vote as England’s #1 fan

Friday, Sep 15. 2006  –  Category: Football

fergie gets vote as England’s #1 fan

damn straight.

though to be fair, Fletcher & Giggs are Scottish & Welsh respectively, so they won’t do much for England’s team under McClaren, but hey… we’re all British

infoworld article on Sun

Thursday, Sep 14. 2006  –  Category: OpenSolaris, Sun

i don’t normally post these sorts of articles - but i have to admit, the last sentence of this article really got me excited:

Sun’s growth is good news for the entire industry. It proves, as I keep pointing out, that trends are useless in predicting the future. Find players with vision, drive and patience, mixed with a desire to please customers as well as shareholders, and it’s easy to pick the winners. Sun’s a winner.

an embarrassment of bounces

Tuesday, Sep 12. 2006  –  Category: OpenSolaris

As many of you know, I’ve been working on the ON mercurial repository. For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working on the external (i.e.: outside Sun) mirrour of the ON Mercurial repository.

This week I’d been ironing out in the kinks in our Mercurial project hosting on opensolaris.org, doing test ‘pushes’ of source code from my internal ON mirrour to the external mirrour.

Today was both a joyous, and ignoble day.

Joyous because I ironed out a bug that had been blocking me for the past couple of days.

Ignoble, because in doing so, I managed to trigger putback notifications for every changeset I pushed. All 2,750 of them. 2,750 emails all destined for me (I had put myself as the notification email address).

Doh.

I sat there and watched 20 emails come in.

Then another 40.

Then another 60.

I noticed my home directory access started lagging. Logging into jurassic (the home directory/web/mail server for all of my building and most of the Solaris Kernel development group) showed a load average spiking up near 100, and almost 5000 processes running under stevel.

Damn. I needed to stop the email, so I put in a procmail recipe to direct them to /dev/null.

5000 sh/procmail processes… all forking unhappily trying to process all my incoming mail… they weren’t going into my mailbox, but they were still wreaking havoc bogging jurassic down.

I thought I would be the good citizen and kill them, so I sent them all a SIGKILL.

Bad idea

Apparently, when you send procmail sigkill, it terminates and sends a bounce-back email message to the originator of the email it was processing. My whizzy cool Mercurial notification hooks sets the originator of the email to be the author of the changeset.

….. and wham, in an instant, I just sent 4958 ’spam’ email bouncebacks to the 571 people in ON that had done putbacks to the ONNV gate.

One by one I got emails, and phone calls from irate, amused, and annoyed colleagues asking why I was spamming them with bounces. Many thanks to the denizens of #onnv for taking it in stride and laughing it off, especially Danek who received more than his fair share as ON gatekeeper. Many many apologies to cth and eschrock who were the two who had completed the most putbacks, and thus were rewarded with the most bouncebacks. Many thanks to esaxe, akolb, and jjc who were in the conference room with me (we were having a remote PG work day) for laughing and trying to make me feel better about my retardness.

danek and esaxe were the only two to notice my highly-technical 3733t repository name. kudos to you guys.

sigh. … and that has pretty much been my most mortifying moment at Sun so far.

hurry up and stop

Sunday, Sep 10. 2006  –  Category: Musings

it took two hours to change my front brake pads this morning… faster than i expected to be honest. the first one took me about an hour and a half, the second one about a half hour once we figured out the trick to taking apart the wear sensor and getting the caliper off the caliper bracket.

btw - the best part of putting on new brake pads: testing them out.

and i finally got around to sorting out the business of getting grommit’s serial console hooked up to the Cyclades console server in our rack. yay. i finally have proper console access to grommit now.

/me is happy.