The release notes for Solaris Express 7/04 (aka Solaris 10 Beta 5) have gone up on docs.sun.com in preparation for the release later this week. Of the features...
The release notes for Solaris Express 7/04 (aka Solaris 10 Beta 5) have gone up on docs.sun.com in preparation for the release later this week. Of the features they highlight, I think pstack support for Java programs is the coolest (but as noted previously, I look at these things from the developer point of view, so features like Zones that appeal to sysadmins don't excite me as much). Of those not listed in the release notes, the features & fixes I find most interesting are:...
The release notes for Solaris Express 7/04 (aka Solaris 10 Beta 5) have gone up on docs.sun.com in preparation for the release later this week. Of the features they highlight, I think pstack...
I grew up in Ely, a small town in eastern Nevada of around 5,000 people (among several other places). Since leaving in 1990, I don't often hear much about it -...
I grew up in Ely, a small town in eastern Nevada of around 5,000 people (among several other places). Since leaving in 1990, I don't often hear much about it - I occasionally check the website of the local paper to see what's up, but otherwise rarely hear much about it or see it in the news or on other web sites. So you can imagine my surprise when I was reading Rich Burridge's blog right here on Sun's blog site and found out that the Millenium Clock project plans to build...
I grew up in Ely, a small town in eastern Nevada of around 5,000 people (among several other places). Since leaving in 1990, I don't often hear much about it - I occasionally check the website of...
It's amazing how much junk piles up in three years - I feel like I'm shoveling it out by the ton as I pack up my office. I'm still not done, and the movers are...
It's amazing how much junk piles up in three years - I feel like I'm shoveling it out by the ton as I pack up my office. I'm still not done, and the movers are showing up tomorrow afternoon to pick it all up to move to what will be my third office in a little over 5 years at Sun. I started working at Sun at a small satellite campus in Menlo Park that was home to Sun's workstation business, including the "Power Client Desktop Software" group (CDE, X, & OpenWindows) that hired...
It's amazing how much junk piles up in three years - I feel like I'm shoveling it out by the ton as I pack up my office. I'm still not done, and the movers are showing up tomorrow afternoon to pick it...
So we're watching a rerun of Law & Order: Criminal Intent tonight and I can't help but laugh when I hear when they describe the violent criminal exploits of a...
So we're watching a rerun of Law & Order: Criminal Intent tonight and I can't help but laugh when I hear when they describe the violent criminal exploits of a loan shark and mob boss named "Nick Weaver." I hear the name and think of someone I knew at Berkeley named Nick Weaver, and I can't imagine him breaking anyone's knees.Of course, the association was probably reinforced by recently getting the June 2004 Usenix ;login: magazine featuring an article Nick wrote accompanied...
So we're watching a rerun of Law & Order: Criminal Intent tonight and I can't help but laugh when I hear when they describe the violent criminal exploits of a loan shark and mob boss named "Nick...
Congratulations to the winners of the X.Org Foundation inaugural elections! (Not that the contest was that heated, with the most controversy being over the...
Congratulations to the winners of the X.Org Foundation inaugural elections! (Not that the contest was that heated, with the most controversy being over the 2-employees-per-company limit pushing out one of the 3 HP employees who would have otherwise been elected to both boards.) I'm looking forward to continuing to work with the new architecture board as I have with the previous incarnation for the last year. For those who haven't seen this mornings announcement yet, the new...
Congratulations to the winners of the X.Org Foundation inaugural elections! (Not that the contest was that heated, with the most controversy being over the 2-employees-per-company limit pushing out...
Every few months I get asked how to do this, and have to go dig it up again, so I may as well post it here to save me the trouble of trying to remember where I...
Every few months I get asked how to do this, and have to go dig it up again, so I may as well post it here to save me the trouble of trying to remember where I posted it last. You can configure Xsun to let you kill it with a keystroke, much like the Xorg and XFree86 servers. To do this, you need to activate the X Keyboard Extension (XKB) which extends X keyboard handling in a number of ways. (It's on by default in recent versions of XFree86 and X.Org releases, but not in Xsun...
Every few months I get asked how to do this, and have to go dig it up again, so I may as well post it here to save me the trouble of trying to remember where I posted it last. You can configure...
Alan Hargreaves posted a list of highlights in Solaris Express 6/04, and the What's New in Solaris 10 Beta 4 docs are posted on docs.sun.com now (S10 Beta 4 and...
Alan Hargreaves posted a list of highlights in Solaris Express 6/04, and the What's New in Solaris 10 Beta 4 docs are posted on docs.sun.com now (S10 Beta 4 and Solaris Express 6/04 are both the same s10_58 build of Solaris 10, just different release mechanisms), but I often find the changes I most like are the little ones not listed in the highlights and major new fixes list. For this release, my favorite changes since the previous (s10_55) are (in no particular order):...
Alan Hargreaves posted a list of highlights in Solaris Express 6/04, and the What's New in Solaris 10 Beta 4 docs are posted on docs.sun.com now (S10 Beta 4 and Solaris Express 6/04 are both the same...
We've been talking for a bit now on the Xorg release-wranglers calls and mailing lists (and at the recent X Developer's Conference) about what should be in the...
We've been talking for a bit now on the Xorg release-wranglers calls and mailing lists (and at the recent X Developer's Conference) about what should be in the future releases of the Xorg distribution. We've tossed around the idea having another release sometime this summer, but nothing has been decided for sure yet. Some of these are already in either branches off the Xorg CVS tree on freedestkop.org or in the experimental Xserver CVS tree on freedesktop.org. Features that...
We've been talking for a bit now on the Xorg release-wranglers calls and mailing lists (and at the recent X Developer's Conference) about what should be in the future releases of the...
I suppose I should finally get around to explaining who I am for those who don't already know me. Please allow me to introduce myself: I'm a man of wealth and...
I suppose I should finally get around to explaining who I am for those who don't already know me. Please allow me to introduce myself: I'm a man of wealth and taste... wait, scratch that. I've got neither of those. Let me try again. Born on a mountaintop in, erm, well, Nevada. (Not literally on a mountaintop - in a nice little hospital in a valley between two mountain ranges about 6500 feet above sea level.) I grew up in various places in Nevada, Utah, and California, ranging...
I suppose I should finally get around to explaining who I am for those who don't already know me. Please allow me to introduce myself: I'm a man of wealth and taste... wait, scratch that. I've got...
