Inchoate Curmudgeon

I have added a V60x to my lab and want to jumpstart it rather than futz with DVDs. I wanted to have a jumpstart server on my Mac laptop, in a VMware Fusion guest, for portable use. I wanted my jumpstart images on a ZFS share, both to ease the NFS configuration and to allow […]

I have a customer facing role, so one of Hugh’s latest cartoons resonates with me. I also haven’t always been the most well behaved customer myself. I think a lot of the bad behavior we see in the corporate world is driven by mind-gripping fear. It doesn’t excuse it, but is helps me to reconcile […]

I agree with Hugh that Web 2.0 is for everyone, although blogging may not be. Frankly, I really need it to be, since these tools are becoming the primary mechanisms for social interactions in my daily workday world. I think we face the same kinds of barriers our great-grandparents did when the telephone was introduced […]

Following up on the post today regarding anonymity and yesterday’s post regarding integration issues in Web 2.0, I stumbled across an entry titled “Social Networking 3.0” on Henry Story’s Blog, The Sun Bablefish Blog, regarding the silos the various Web 2.0 applications and services are forming. Henry’s area of interest is focused on identity issues, […]

I’ve encountered several items today prompting me to blog on what must be a worn topic.

James Governor’s links today include a reference to Microsoft’s Terms of Use, “Just because a work is easily available on the internet or elsewhere does not mean you may use the work freely. Look for terms of use, such as […]

A discussion I just had with David Levy got me thinking about how various social networking channels are working and not working for me and others. It seems like various social networking channels are finding their place, based on capabilities, usage, integration and push versus pull issues. Twitter is somewhat filling the social void felt by […]

The production release of VMware Fusion 1.0 released yesterday resolves the issues with the VMware tools install inter-operation with xorg 7.2 distributed with current versions of Nevada.  I’ve tested the tools install with Fusion 1.0 (51348) and Solaris Nevada build 69 (SunOS solaris-devx 5.11 snv_69 i86pc i386 i86pc).

fusion, nevada, solaris, xorg

The presentation on Jay’s blog just reinforces my dismay at not getting my act together to at least try to go to OSCON.

iSCSI, nevada, solaris, zfs