Ok, so VMware server v1.0.8 complained that the virtual server Sun provided for the Sun 7000 series simulator was ‘created by a version with more features’ or something. So, I tried to download the newer version, 2.0. No joy. The page for the download appears to be entirely content free.… Read More
Back in April of 2006, Unicity (my company) took Bill Moore to lunch to chat about ZFS and a storage system idea Sun was working on. We’d met Bryan Cantrill at a presentation he gave on dtrace, which was the new hotness at the time. We were impressed, and stayed… Read More
My last day for my current client is coming up later this week. I’m really looking forward to being able to spend some time on personal projects. There are a bunch of things that I’ve had on the back burner that are going to get onto a front burner for… Read More
The new version of seafelt Performance Manager is collecting data and saving it successfully to the database. This is a major milestone on the way to the release of version 3.0. The backend collector has been almost completely rewritten to use the Storm Object Request Modeller, which provides significant correctness,… Read More
Wow. Barack Obama actually won. Fantastic! I can only imagine the energy and elation that must be reverberating around certain quarters of the USA right now. I know that most of my friends and colleagues who live there are feeling good about politics for the first time in years. There… Read More
I just wasted 3 hours of my life fixing a problem with Xorg that started after a reboot. Seriously, I didn’t change anything in software, just cleaned some of the fans on the motherboard that were getting a bit clogged with dust. Turns out the problem was the evil binary… Read More
I’ve been herding Deferred chains in seafelt Performance Manager version 3 today. It’s getting there, but today wasn’t an amazingly productive day, unfortunately. Perhaps fish oil supplements really do make a difference? I forgot to take one this morning, and my brain just hasn’t been firing as well. Hopefully I’ll… Read More
I’ve upgraded the firmware on the Netgear ADSL modem, so hopefully that will fix the “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” problem it seems to have sporadically. If so, eigenmagic.com will stop randomly dropping off the air. Here’s hoping, anyway. In other news, I’ve been doing some research of… Read More
