Author name: albertw

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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 […]

Astronomy

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

Astronomy

Testing patches for Live Upgrade compliance

Live Upgrade is a feature of Solaris that lets you create alternate boot environments. This makes it easy to switch between OS builds at boot time, but also make upgrading much easier, less risky, and quicker. This extends to patching too.   I recently received a query from a customer asking how we ensure that

Photography

Dublin at night

Its been a while since I posted anything here so heres a few shots that I took recently around Dublin.  Trinity College   Famine Statues   Custom House 

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