Inchoate Curmudgeon

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

Woo-hoo! Now I’m off to try out vnics in Solaris 11! I’ve encountered one minor issue, so far. Since the Solaris installer is 32 bit, I needed to create a 32 bit vm for the install. VMware was blowing up trying to get Solaris to install inside a 64 bit vm. I’ll need to futz with […]

I’m setting up a development environment on a Solaris x86 machine (well, actually a VMware virtual machine) and have a couple of goals:

Use zones to set up, and clone, AMP (Apache, MySQL, PHP) and Rails development environments. The idea is once I get things the way I want, I should be able to quickly set […]

There are a number of great resources on the Web explaining how to combine VNC with SSH so that you can get a remote display of a desktop. The exact combination of tools will depend somewhat on the operating systems of your client and host machines, but there are a host of options for Windows, […]

The theme of the closing keynote by Dave Thomas at the Rails Conference was Rails is Love. But there was an undertone of anxiety in the keynote, and throughout the conference really, that Ruby might somehow become unlovely. The Ruby on Rails community has exploded. There are over 8,900 people on the Rails […]