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30 Most Recent Blog Entries

ahl Hybrid Storage Pools: The L2ARC
Jul 23, 5:06 PM
I've written recently about the hybrid storage pool (HSP), using ZFS to augment the conventional storage stack with flash memory. The resulting system improve performance, cost, density, capacity, ...
David Stewart (Intel) I'm speaking tomorrow at OSCON
Jul 23, 3:08 PM
( I know it's a little late, but I took a little mental vacation here for a while, so sue me! ) If you happen to be at OSCON in Portland, OR this week, I would invite you to come by and introduce ...
katakai OpenSolaris 2008.05 の image-update に挑戦
Jul 23, 2:39 PM
しばらく OpenSolaris 2008.05 をそのまま使っていたのですがやはり新しいものを使いたくなりますよね。ということでアップデートにチャレンジです。 # pkg image-update でアップデートできますが、その後にいくつかコマンドを実行する必要があるようです。以下のエントリを参考にしました。 FYI: pkg.opensolaris.org update ...
katakai NetBeans 6.5 Localization Planning
Jul 23, 2:11 PM
We started discussion about NetBeans 6.5 localization in the mailing list of translatedfiles.netbeans.org project. See the discussion thread for the detail. NetBeans 6.5 localization START If you're ...
jimgris Second Quake in a Week
Jul 23, 9:18 AM
We had a pretty big earthquake in Japan on the northern part of Honshu (the main island) about 45 min ago. It was 6.9 up there, but probably about 4 or so in Tokyo where I am. A 4 is not big here, ...
Deirdre' Straughan Video: Storage the Solaris Way
Jul 23, 8:52 AM
Thomas Nau, Head of Infrastructure Department, Solaris Geek, University of Ulm, speaks at Sun's HPC Consortium (Dresden, Germany, June 2008). ~20 mins download iPod version 
georges Freeze Tag
Jul 23, 7:45 AM
Courtesy of a guest list place won via Suzanne Vega.com, my wife and I enjoyed Suzanne's live London gig last night. The show was a part of the itunes live festival. ...
yongsun ibus: An input method framework basing on dbus+python
Jul 23, 7:24 AM
As I blog'd before, dbus+python maybe a wonderful technical choice for input method framework. I discussed with Huang Peng (the author of scim-python ), we both thought it's worth to have a try. ...
yongsun ibus: An input method framework basing on dbus+python
Jul 23, 6:56 AM
之前提到过， dbus+python 可能是实现输入法框架一个很好的技术选择。和 scim-python 的作者 Huang Peng 也交流了这个想法，大家都觉得值得一试。Huang Peng兄对dbus和python都有深入的掌握，开始动手实现不久，就已经颇具规模。这就是现在的 ibus 项目，采用的开放协议为LGPLv2.1。 Huang Peng为dbus社区贡献了dbus server ...
paulj Pretty Good BGP (PGBGP)
Jul 23, 4:18 AM
A new, interesting, soft/side-band approach to BGP security: Pretty Good BGP . No crypto involved, no need for extensive deployment. Just monitoring the BGP routing table and reporting anomolous ...
tpenta What can you say?
Jul 23, 3:42 AM
I have been really slacking off with my blogging and really need to get back into it. What better way than with something amusing that happened today to a colleague. He picked up an task today where ...
trueg Strigi Reloaded - The Answer to all our Problems? Hopefully to a few of them.
Jul 23, 3:40 AM
It took me one and a half day and Jos will not be happy about it. That is because I have to start this blog entry with apologizing to him: "Jos, I am sorry, you will probably not like what I am about ...
Yasuhiro Fujitsuki (JA) NetBeans on OpenSolaris
Jul 23, 3:26 AM
pkgコマンドを使って NetBeans を OpenSolaris に追加したんですが、 なんかメニューフォントが汚い…。 内部のフォントはきれいなんですけどね。 で、調べてみるとどうも、アンチエイリアスが有効ではないためのようで、 javaの場合、-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on で有効にできるとのこと。 ...
masu OpenSolaris Night Seminar 7th
Jul 23, 2:27 AM
毎回好評を頂いております、OpenSolaris Night Seminar 7th の開催が決定しました。今回は、自宅でOpenSolaris環境をインターネット接続する方法の紹介や、Windows とのデータ交換/共有する小ネタに なります。今回諸般の事情により後半は私が講師する予定です。 ３分間クッキングはOpenSolaris で DVD 鑑賞するネタだそうです。 開催日時と場所は ...
benr at cuddletech dot com DTrace IP Provider... Oh no you didn't....
Jul 23, 2:01 AM
In my previous post about the IP Provider I got the following comment: "There is nothing unpleasant about the wonderfulness that is tcpdump! You’ll need to put a lot of work in to match tcpdump’s ...
katakai NetBeans 6.5 : Eclipse プロジェクトのインポート機能
Jul 22, 11:22 PM
前から提供されているプラグインですが Eclipse Project Importer というのがあります。Eclipse のプロジェクトを NetBeans にインポートするとうプラグインで、アップデートセンターから提供されています。今回そのプラグインが 6.5 から本体に入ってくるようですね。 Help Test Eclipse Project Importer for NetBeans ...
brendan ZFS L2ARC
Jul 22, 9:48 PM
An exciting new ZFS feature has now become publicly known - the second level ARC, or L2ARC. I've been busy with its development for over a year, however this is my first chance to post about it. This ...
spstarr OLS Day 0
Jul 22, 9:19 PM
On Monday, I drove to Guelph to hang out with some friends and then take the VIA Train to Ottawa. We arrived around 5pm today. About the only thing done that was productive today was order a Pizza ...
katakai 最近の NetBeans JavaFX プラグイン
Jul 22, 8:50 PM
NetBeans の JavaFX プラグインがずいぶん変わってきたんですね。開発ビルドは以前お知らせしたように hudson でビルドされるようになっています。 http://deadlock.netbeans.org/hudson/job/JavaFX_NB_daily/ New JavaFX and Netbeans 6.1 ...
jimgris Solaris Book Author Coming to Japan
Jul 22, 5:02 PM
Solaris Application Programming author Darryl Grove will be in Japan on Friday to present at the Solaris Night Seminar in Tokyo. Hisayoshi Kato will also present. Key topic is DTrace.
jclingan This is not an ALERT
Jul 22, 4:19 PM
In an effort to gain visibility in a world of information overload, the media invented the " ALERT ". However, there seems to be no consensus as to what an " ALERT " means. The result is " The Boy ...
Gina Bovara (Intel) Come see Intel Software Network in person!
Jul 22, 4:05 PM
What are you doing this fall? Come out to meet your favorite Intel Software Network personalities (myself included!) at some of the upcoming conferences we will be participating in.  We'd love to ...
Clay Breshears (Intel) "Vanilla is the Absence of Chocolate" and Other Lies My Father Told Me
Jul 22, 3:52 PM
Well, my father didn't state it that eloquently, but he couldn't understand why I prefered vanilla to chocolate milkshakes when I was growing up. Now, I don't think he would understand why I might ...
exoteric Which Sports Car Are You?
Jul 22, 3:43 PM
Here's a fun diversion for the day. Take this short quiz to find out which kind of sports car type you are. I'm a Corvette type. What are you?
webmink Un-Booth
Jul 22, 3:12 PM
One of the perennial problems of sponsoring an open source conference is that the organisers always seem to want the sponsorship to pay for an exhibition booth. Exhibition booths need furnishing and ...
Brian Leonard Mounting an ISO
Jul 22, 2:48 PM
If you need to pull files from an ISO image file, is it unnecessary to first burn the image to a CD or DVD. By using the lofiadm command you can just mount the ISO and browse its contents. The ...
Marcelo Leal Hang in there, do it, don’t be a pain in the butt and don’t bump into the scenery
Jul 22, 1:16 PM
No, it’s not my phrase, but i think it resumes the sysadmin’s work… Actually that phrase is a citation from Seu Jorge, talking about a theater school where the motto was the title of this post. Seu ...
Jeff Moriarty (Intel) TechCrunch making $200 web tablet? Hmmmm...
Jul 22, 11:20 AM
Yesterday TechCrunch announced they are building their own $200 web tablet, and asked for help doing it. The planned stack so far is to run BSD or Linux, with the Gnome desktop. We will probably take ...
Doug Holland (Intel) August RTM for Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Jul 22, 11:19 AM
Darryl K. Taft has an interesting article on eWeek detailing Microsoft's plans to ship SQL Server 2008 next month. You can read the article here. Without a doubt one of the single most interesting ...
timf ... it's the only way to be sure
Jul 22, 10:36 AM
I stumbled on this tip today on planet.gnome.org about how to tune what gets displayed on your favourite planet - this has made me extremely happy, as I now get to have a userContent.css file that ...