I mentioned a few posts back a big project integrating into Solaris 10, and promised to explain it later. Unfortunately, getting it in is only half the work,...
I mentioned a few posts back a big project integrating into Solaris 10, and promised to explain it later. Unfortunately, getting it in is only half the work, and I've been busy ever since and never got around to explaining. (And getting our lab ready to move to a new building this week didn't help time wise.) So here goes - it was a lot of work, but can be summed up in one word: Xorg. Okay, that's not much explanation, so here's a few more words - the Xorg X server, from the...
I mentioned a few posts back a big project integrating into Solaris 10, and promised to explain it later. Unfortunately, getting it in is only half the work, and I've been busy ever since and never...
Had relatives in town this weekend, so we went to places that, even though they're a short drive, we only get around to visiting when visitors come - The Tech...
Had relatives in town this weekend, so we went to places that, even though they're a short drive, we only get around to visiting when visitors come - The Tech Museum of San Jose, San Francisco's House of Prime Rib, and Oakland's classic Fenton's ice cream parlor. It was a nice break from the usual routine and hectic pace at work. Of course, I wasn't completely idle this weekend - I worked all weekend long, or rather got work done. We're moving to a new lab and consolidating...
Had relatives in town this weekend, so we went to places that, even though they're a short drive, we only get around to visiting when visitors come - The Tech Museum of San Jose, San Francisco's...
The O'Reilly Network has a nice short article summarizing Xorg and this week's 6.8 release and upcoming work.
I use bloglines as my RSS feed aggregator since it's easy to access from all the different computers I use. Since it's pulling so many feeds for so many people,...
I use bloglines as my RSS feed aggregator since it's easy to access from all the different computers I use. Since it's pulling so many feeds for so many people, it has a huge source of incoming data. One of the options it provides is a custom feed of articles it finds in those blogs with certain words in - for instance, I get a list of anything it finds that mentions "Xorg" - which includes entries from RSS feeds for various downstream distributor's change logs as they pull...
I use bloglines as my RSS feed aggregator since it's easy to access from all the different computers I use. Since it's pulling so many feeds for so many people, it has a huge source of incoming...
sigh Just had to waste ten minutes going through all the comments on here to delete about 20 from the $#\^@\*!ing blog spammers. The people who run...
sigh Just had to waste ten minutes going through all the comments on here to delete about 20 from the $#\^@\*!ing blog spammers. The people who run blogs.sun.com have been looking into ways to stop it, unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a good solution that works for everyone - if you use a "captcha" (one of those images of text that's easy for people to read but hard for computers to recognize), then you block people with visual impairments - but just registration means...
sigh Just had to waste ten minutes going through all the comments on here to delete about 20 from the $#\^@\*!ing blog spammers. The people who run blogs.sun.com have been looking into ways to...
This looks cool - enter a term into this search engine and not only does it find a picture, it converts on the fly to ascii art, such as these: [Accessibility...
This looks cool - enter a term into this search engine and not only does it find a picture, it converts on the fly to ascii art, such as these: [Accessibility warning - you don't want to follow these links in a screen reader unless you like hearing meaningless repetitive text for a long time.]Sun MicrosystemsX Window System (looks like a cover photo of one of the old O'Reilly X books)BSD daemonTuxCalGolden Gate Bridge[I had tried copying and pasting the html, but that seemed...
This looks cool - enter a term into this search engine and not only does it find a picture, it converts on the fly to ascii art, such as these: [Accessibility warning - you don't want to follow...
Alan Hargreaves beat me to posting about this month's release of Solaris Express, but since he's Down Under, he's usually a day ahead of me anyway. While the...
Alan Hargreaves beat me to posting about this month's release of Solaris Express, but since he's Down Under, he's usually a day ahead of me anyway. While the high-level list is impressive, there's also a few hidden goodies and bug fixes people may appreciate - though to list them I'll have to reset my brain back to the build 63 used for SX 8/04 after spending the day working out the final kinks in build 65, hacking on code for build 67, and making plans for changes to go into...
Alan Hargreaves beat me to posting about this month's release of Solaris Express, but since he's Down Under, he's usually a day ahead of me anyway. While the high-level list is impressive, there's...
As noted last week, I've not been posting much as I've been very busy on various projects reaching critical stages, including helping with the X.Org Foundation...
As noted last week, I've not been posting much as I've been very busy on various projects reaching critical stages, including helping with the X.Org Foundation X11R6.8 release and X window system work for Solaris 10 and the upcoming Java Desktop System releases for Solaris. The days blur together a bit, with the various weekly conference calls serving to tell them apart (hence the title). Therefore, I'm going to cheat, and repost some things I've written elsewhere today... I...
As noted last week, I've not been posting much as I've been very busy on various projects reaching critical stages, including helping with the X.Org Foundation X11R6.8 release and X window system work...
I haven't written lately (which is probably why I've fallen off the top 50 most popular blogs on the blogs.sun.com front page) since I've been very busy...
I haven't written lately (which is probably why I've fallen off the top 50 most popular blogs on the blogs.sun.com front page) since I've been very busy finishing up work for the upcoming Java Desktop System release for the new Sun Opteron workstations and for Solaris 10, but the quickly-growing group of people working on the X.Org releases have been busy too. A flurry of checkins led up to the feature freeze over the weekend for the X11R6.8.0 release, including all of the...
I haven't written lately (which is probably why I've fallen off the top 50 most popular blogs on the blogs.sun.com front page) since I've been very busy finishing up work for the upcoming Java...
