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Package List - Life with Solaris
Life with Solaris has begun publishing some popular multimedia formats using image packaging. Current packages include BMPx, Goggles/Ogle, VLC, and Xine.
"Welcome to the Open Problem Garden, a collection of unsolved problems in mathematics."
Life is so good, it gets better every day » Blog Archive » Playing with IPS and SFE
Glynn works through how to build a "spec files extra" (SFE) package and convert it for publication in a pkg(5) repository.
moving from nevada and live upgrade to opensolaris : Edward Pilatowicz’s Weblog
Ed has a procedure to construct a 2008.05 system alongside an existing Nevada system. Slick.
[0807.2097] Testing a priority-based queue model with Linux command histories
"We study human dynamics by analyzing Linux history files." Attempt to verify one of the power law behaviours, but with a very small sample.
MIT OpenCourseWare - 6.831 User Interface Design and Implementation, Fall 2004 - Readings
The reading list for MIT's user interface design course.
Metakit embedded database library
Metakit is an efficient embedded database library with a small footprint. Python binding, as well as C++ and Tcl. MIT license.
Logic Supply - Leaders in Mini-ITX and Small Form Factor Solutions
Currently offering the Intel Little Valley system, among other options
Logic Supply - Leaders in Mini-ITX & Small Form Factor Solutions
Currently offering the Intel Little Valley system, among other options
The View from the Moon - iibitmap=1; iibitmap=1; iibitmap=1; iibitmap=1; …
Why image packaging doesn't have scripting, exhibit 731.
"Suds is a lightweight SOAP python client that provides a service proxy for Web Services."
"CherryPy is a pythonic, object-oriented HTTP framework." Shawn's almost done refactoring pkg.depotd to use CherryPy rather than BaseHTTPServer.
Home of SOAPpy and Zolera SOAP Infrastructure (ZSI)
~4100MiB
26 April 2008I seeded the 2008.05 release candidate for about 45 hours, ultimately shipping a little over 4100 megabytes. I’m going to take a break, because I want to update my DP2-based workstation and get some work done, but, once we have new bits, I’ll getting seeding again.
(I found the actual result: 4237MiB sent up, so almost 4GiB.)
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It Must Be Time for Tea: Converting Projects to Mercurial
Mike talks about helping projects move from TeamWare to Mercurial. Large projects may have been running a project gate ("branch") for a year or more, and with a clear schedule in mind. Minimizing the cost of the main gate switching source code managemen
Intel® Software Network Blogs » Making access to memory faster in OpenSolaris (and Core2)
Dave reports on performance improvements in OpenSolaris for memcpy(), memmove(), and memset() on Core2-based systems.
The View from the Moon: Finding bugs in python code, using DTrace
We've been using DTrace to check performance as we develop image packaging; here Dan reviews one of his recent wins. Because DTrace makes it extremely cheap to check for algorithmic mistakes, and the yields of correcting such mistakes are so high, it's c
The View from the Moon: cr.opensolaris.org gets an ATOM feed
Dan extends code review to provide updates via syndication, which is another step to a virtual hallway for OpenSolaris development. Sweet.
Fiscally Conservative | Musings
Budget deficit and GDP growth compared by party across administrations, since 1930.
School Rankings for Writing OpenCourseWare
Article listing a bunch of online courseware on writing topics.
Election Candidates at OpenSolaris.org
Currently displaying the candidates for the 2008 election. Affiliations, bios, position statements, and podcasts.
The Open Solaris Governing Board 2.0 - Elections and Interviews - Barton’s Blog
Barton intends to interview as many of this year’s OGB candidates as he can.
OpenSolaris Polling Open [on Simon Phipps, SunMink]
Simon explains the two proposed amendments, his candidacy, and a list of candidates "committed to asking Sun’s management to communicate regularly and clearly with the OpenSolaris community".
