I answered a question today about DHCP option lengths on our internal DHCP support list, a question which has come up before and no doubt will again. I might as...
I answered a question today about DHCP option lengths on our internal DHCP support list, a question which has come up before and no doubt will again. I might as well post it here for posterity.> > Working with a customer on their custom jumpstart environment and they > > ran into the 255 byte limit. I did find the notes in the documentation > > confirming the length limit in our DHCP server. The customer came back > > and said that they don't seem to be having the problem...
I answered a question today about DHCP option lengths on our internal DHCP support list, a question which has come up before and no doubt will again. I might as well post it here for posterity.> >...
I work on the Solaris runtime linker. One thing you quickly learn in this work is that a small mistake can bring down your system. The runtime linker is an...
I work on the Solaris runtime linker. One thing you quickly learn in this work is that a small mistake can bring down your system. The runtime linker is an extreme example, but the same thing is true of other core system components. Modifying core parts of a running machine can be a risky game. There is a time honored strategy for dealing with this: Be careful Minimize your exposure Deal with it That's not much of a safety net. "Deal with it" can sometimes be a slow, painful...
I work on the Solaris runtime linker. One thing you quickly learn in this work is that a small mistake can bring down your system. The runtime linker is an extreme example, but the same thing is true...
People hanging out in the #opensolaris IRC channel last week may have seen a discussion between myself, slowhog, and dprice as we tried to debug why gaim was...
People hanging out in the #opensolaris IRC channel last week may have seen a discussion between myself, slowhog, and dprice as we tried to debug why gaim was hanging on slowhog's machine - it seemed to be the compiler had generated an impossible-to-exit infinite loop: [Note: IRC transcripts below have had some portions dropped and/or reordered to make the discussion easier to read] <slowhog> dbx shows interesting code <slowhog> 0xd208b301: _XFlushInt+0x00e5: testl %eax,%eax...
People hanging out in the #opensolaris IRC channel last week may have seen a discussion between myself, slowhog, and dprice as we tried to debug why gaim was hanging on slowhog's machine - it seemed...
For a little while now the Security Coordination Team at Sun have been putting up the Security Alert notices as an RSS. It think this is really cool, much...
For a little while now the Security Coordination Team at Sun have been putting up the Security Alert notices as an RSS. It think this is really cool, much better than having to subscribe to a mail alias to get the info.
For a little while now the Security Coordination Team at Sun have been putting up the Security Alert notices as an RSS. It think this is really cool, much better than having to subscribe to a...
Only last week I had suggested that an interesting project for a community member would be to figure out what it would take to make Xorg run on OpenSolaris...
Only last week I had suggested that an interesting project for a community member would be to figure out what it would take to make Xorg run on OpenSolaris SPARC with a graphics device for which Xorg has drivers for other platforms, such as the PGX-series boards based on ATI Mach64 or the XVR-100 based on ATI Radeon 7000. I figured this would take a little while and a bit of work for someone to figure out. I guess I was wrong. Martin Bochnig announced yesterday that not only...
Only last week I had suggested that an interesting project for a community member would be to figure out what it would take to make Xorg run on OpenSolaris SPARC with a graphics device for which...
Last week I finally got libmd integrated into OpenSolaris and off my TODO list. It will be in snv_38.This small library took much longer to integrate than I had...
Last week I finally got libmd integrated into OpenSolaris and off my TODO list. It will be in snv_38.This small library took much longer to integrate than I had initially hoped it would. It turns out that building libraries that have $PLATFORM specific filters isn't that easy yet and $SRC/lib/libmd [might take a day or two yet to show up in the source browser] shows one way to do it. It also doesn't help when you take on the task of moving source around and touching every...
Last week I finally got libmd integrated into OpenSolaris and off my TODO list. It will be in snv_38.This small library took much longer to integrate than I had initially hoped it would. It turns out...
Unfortunately, all the changes in this build happened to be in the bits we haven't released yet (though I'm hoping to get our xscreensaver sources out sometime...
Unfortunately, all the changes in this build happened to be in the bits we haven't released yet (though I'm hoping to get our xscreensaver sources out sometime soon), so I can't point you at the changes in our just released source drop, but when the Solaris Express build 37 images come out, you should see these changes in the binaries. 6377194 XST extension wrapping makes the Composite and Damage wrapping not work In the X server, many extensions do their work by replacing...
Unfortunately, all the changes in this build happened to be in the bits we haven't released yet (though I'm hoping to get our xscreensaver sources out sometime soon), so I can't point you at the...
For now just a quick copy of the announcement - I'll write more once I catch my breath... The first code drop from the X Window System Consolidation has been...
For now just a quick copy of the announcement - I'll write more once I catch my breath... The first code drop from the X Window System Consolidation has been posted to opensolaris.org. It's a snapshot of a subset of the Solaris X Consolidation code from partway through Nevada build 38. Details on what's included and links to downloads & licenses can be found on the X Community Sources page. Source is not yet available in the OpenSolaris Source Browser, but work is in progress...
For now just a quick copy of the announcement - I'll write more once I catch my breath... The first code drop from the X Window System Consolidation has been posted to opensolaris.org. It's a snapshot...
I didn't even notice the date yesterday, but when I looked at the calendar today, I realized I'd just passed my seventh Sunday. (If your birthday is the...
I didn't even notice the date yesterday, but when I looked at the calendar today, I realized I'd just passed my seventh Sunday. (If your birthday is the anniversary of your birth, wouldn't a Sunday be the anniversary of your joining Sun?) March 29, 1999 was my first day in the desktop group at Sun, though back then I was an intern in the PowerClient Desktop Release Engineering team, working on tools for the release engineers, fixing bugs in build scripts and Imakefiles, and...
I didn't even notice the date yesterday, but when I looked at the calendar today, I realized I'd just passed my seventh Sunday. (If your birthday is the anniversary of your birth, wouldn't a Sunday be...
