Posted in IT Architecture, Technology on June 18th, 2007 1 Comment »
Simon Phipps just posted a blog entry on archaeological chip documentation has some of the most compelling gems I’ve seen indirectly explaining why open source is just plain good business. Basically, closed source is a pesky, long-lived boat anchor on management attention and legal overhead for the companies that manage the intellectual property. This condition […]
Posted in Solaris 11, VMware on June 18th, 2007 5 Comments »
One of the recent Nevada builds introduces xorg 7.2 which breaks the VMware tools installation. Use these instructions to work around the issue. You may want to enable root logins in /etc/ssh/sshd_config (”PermitRootLogin yes”) or create another login via in case you can’t get back in through the graphical console after these steps. You […]
Posted in IT Architecture, Web 2.0 on June 13th, 2007 No Comments »
While browsing James McGovern’s blog entry, “Links for 5-12,” I ran across a link to a post by Bex Huff, “What is an Architect?” Talking about this is a bit of self absorbed navel-gazing that makes the rounds where I work every once in a while. Nonetheless, I will throw in a couple of […]
Posted in IT Architecture, Technology, Rails, Web 2.0 on June 8th, 2007 2 Comments »
I was on a staff call this morning where the subject of red-shift came up. Its a hot topic with the Sun Executive, promoted to help balance our focus between bread-and-butter data center solutions and supporting atypical, non-traditional, hyper-growth markets requiring massively scaled, extreme-availability solutions. Of course, it’s easy to pick a heated discussion in relation […]
Posted in Cooking on June 8th, 2007 3 Comments »
Making a good roux is a time-consuming pain. I cheat. Don’t tell any Cajun, or any fine Creole chef about this, they will shoot you. My mother would have killed me if I didn’t have small children to support. My children are bigger now, but she’s too old and slow now to catch me. If […]
Posted in Programming, Solaris 11 on June 7th, 2007 No Comments »
Yesterday in “Using ZFS and NFS with Textmate and Finder on a Fusion VM” I stated that “SAMBA would be … the only reasonable setup if you are doing something like this with a Windows machine and VMware Workstation.” This was a bit of an overstatement, since you can configure an NFS client on a […]
Posted in IT Architecture, Solaris 10, Solaris 11 on June 6th, 2007 1 Comment »
One of the advantages of a VMware image over a real server is that you can securely access the Solaris virtual machine filesystem, from your Mac, with NFS. You don’t even need to plead with your system administrator, that would be you! Also, when you have a server vm, you can carry it with you, […]
Posted in IT Architecture, Sun, Web 2.0 on June 1st, 2007 3 Comments »
There are 11,399 blog entries Technorati tagged zooomr, must be at least 100 in the last 24 hours. I’ll leave it to the reader to sift through these to get a blow-by-blow of what’s going on. Basically, it seems like the entire blogosphere is watching “the little photo sharing site that could” pull from the […]