Jupiter images from last night
I’m finally starting to get the hang of this planetary imaging. Still not as good as I’d like but a big improvement on all previous efforts. Two shots taken a little apart so you can see the planets rotation.
Bye Bye eircom. A letter I sent to my local TD recently
Today eircom implemented their three strike rule. Here is a letter I sent to my local TD recently on the subject. Dear Ciaran, Thanks for your tweet regarding the judicial decision regarding the so called ‘3 strike rule’ being implemented by eircom at the request of the music and movie industries. I hope you have the time to read this reply. You mentioned that ‘false accusations are problematic’. That is true, but there are many Read more
Upgrading Opensoalris Guests and Virtualbox
At Home I run windows 7 on my laptop. And in order to run Opensolaris I use virtualbox. Virtualbox in case you dont know about it basically allows you to run an operating system within your main OS. You can also run windows on an opensolaris machine for example. I had fallen behind a bit with my virtualbox and opensolaris versions so decided to upgrade everything over the past couple of days. First I upgraded Read more
What else to install…
I’ve just installed windows 7 on my laptop. Heres what else gets installed: Firefox (and firebug and delicious plugins) Virtualbox Cygwin Tweetdeck itunes picasa Sony Vegas Movie Studio Filezilla AVG Anti Virus GSAK Garmin Mapsource Gimp Google Earth And when I find the install disks (!) : Canon Digital Photo Pro Starry Night Read more
A new door opens
We’ve had some eventful days. We had fun and we kicked butt as Scott would say. We changed the world. We were part of the greatest technology company the world has ever seen. We changed computing forever – repeatedly. And in a few minutes we’ll learn what the future holds with Oracle. I hope Oracle is ready for Sun! Read more
Browsing the support and extras Opensolaris repos in Firefox
Opensolaris users may be familiar with browsing repositories in firefox. To look through the latest Develpoment repo for example you just open up http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev in your browser. Things are a little more complicated for the extras and support repos though. Firstly you need to register to get access to these repos. Anyone can get access tot he extra repo, only supported customers can get access to the support repo. Go to http://pkg.sun.com/register and follow the Read more
Interactive Jumpstart – asking for time
I hit an interesting problem tonight with jumpstart. Or old timeserver has gone away and the jumpstart clients are now going into interactive installs asking for the user to set the time. We rely heavily on automated installs so this needed to be fixed. The solution was obvious I thought. I’ll just set up one of our servers as a ntp server and tell the jumpstart clients to query that in the sysidcfg files. The Read more
Opensolaris Code Swarms
Recently I had a discussion with some folks about ways to identify change in a workspace. In particular if there were ways where we could judge the risk associated with changes without needing to know the specifics of the changes or being told by the engineers. In Opensolaris for example there are flag days. These coincide with putbacks where a project team has identified major change and tells you about it. We have something similar Read more
Earth Hour – Ireland 9pm March 29th 2008
It started with a question: How can we inspire people to take action on climate change? The answer: Ask the people of Sydney to turn off their lights for one hour. On 31 March 2007, 2.2 million people and 2100 Sydney businesses turned off their lights for one hour – Earth Hour. This massive collective effort reduced Sydney’s energy consumption by 10.2% for one hour, which is the equivalent effect of taking 48,000 cars off Read more
Patch Blog
Recently my Manager started blogging. Despite my initial cynicism it’s actually turning out to be a pretty good blog, and the comments are great. Communication about patches is an area that Sun could improve in. What they are, how they are created, how they can be installed, when they can be installed, and when and what you should patch are all areas that I’ve received customer queries about. Patch Automation Tools is Gerry’s most commented Read more