Well, I've been very very busy lately, so totally missed writing about the release of Solaris Express 10/04 - fortunately Alan and Dan have both done a very...
Well, I've been very very busy lately, so totally missed writing about the release of Solaris Express 10/04 - fortunately Alan and Dan have both done a very good job of covering it. So good in fact, I'm having a hard time trying to find changes in these builds that they didn't mention that I think are still worth mentioning. I did find a few however: New look and feel for graphical login screen (but I already told you about that) Over 350 man page updates System...
Well, I've been very very busy lately, so totally missed writing about the release of Solaris Express 10/04 - fortunately Alan and Dan have both done a very good job of covering it. So good in...
I sometimes wonder how many people will really see the effects of work I do in Solaris. Some fixes I know only a handful of people will ever notice since...
I sometimes wonder how many people will really see the effects of work I do in Solaris. Some fixes I know only a handful of people will ever notice since they're in such corner cases. In this month's Solaris Express/Solaris 10 Beta 7 build though, I know a change I made will be seen by every Solaris desktop user as soon as they finish installing, and it may be the most visible change I've ever made to Solaris. (That's almost a bit scary...) Alan DuBoff already wrote about the...
I sometimes wonder how many people will really see the effects of work I do in Solaris. Some fixes I know only a handful of people will ever notice since they're in such corner cases. In this month's...
An occasionally recurring question we get is how to tell how long an X session has been idle without having the xauth cookie to open a connection to the...
An occasionally recurring question we get is how to tell how long an X session has been idle without having the xauth cookie to open a connection to the display. While thinking about this recently, I thought of a way to do it, if you have root access and can poke around in the X server process space. Warning: The technique that follows is for educational & entertainment purposes only. It is not a supported interface, is subject to change or break at any time, and may not...
An occasionally recurring question we get is how to tell how long an X session has been idle without having the xauth cookie to open a connection to the display. While thinking about this recently,...
Didn't mean to take so long before writing more, but life and work interferes... First, answers to the comments on my last post: Drawbacks of using Xorg: -...
Didn't mean to take so long before writing more, but life and work interferes... First, answers to the comments on my last post: Drawbacks of using Xorg: - Xinerama support in the Xorg server isn't nearly as good (just think about GLX and Xinerama - right now only the Xsun server in Solaris gets this right) Actually, it's the OpenGL implementation in Solaris that gets this right. It's separate from the Xsun server (and actually delivered by a different group). The X server...
Didn't mean to take so long before writing more, but life and work interferes... First, answers to the comments on my last post: Drawbacks of using Xorg: - Xinerama support in the Xorg server isn't...
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...
