Today at OSDC we hacked around with OpenSocial, OpenLayers and Google AppEngine. I’ve not really used any of them before, though I’ve read some about them. It’s interesting, but I can’t see an immediate use for it for any of my stuff. I might just be suffering from information overload.… Read More
I’m off to Sydney this week for the Open Source Developer’s Conference. I’m not presenting this year, so I’ll be able to just kick back and enjoy it. It’ll be great to catch up with the other folks I know and chat about what they’ve been up to lately. The… Read More
Plants that roam the earth and seek to annihilate the human race cannot be far away. This amazing article from New Scientist about solar-powered sea slugs that have stolen photosynthesis genes from algae is, quite simply, amazing. Important questions must now be answered. Is this the evolutionary future for vegans?… Read More
I’ve worked out how to get the Adobe Flash player version 10 working with Ubuntu Hardy on AMD64. It’s weird, and I’m not entirely sure why it works, but lots of people seem to be struggling with this, so hopefully some people find this useful. This is what you’ll see… Read More
I’ve managed to get the desktop upgraded to Ubuntu Hardy (8.04). It wasn’t all smooth sailing, unforunately. Firstly, it seems no one uses IDE disks any more. Or that they’re all now accessed via a SCSI emulation layer. No matter, what used to be /dev/hda became /dev/sda, bumping all the… Read More
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
Hooray! After waaaay too long, I’ve finally fixed up my registration with the Python Package Index and uploaded libsnmp. Version 2.0.4 is now available in the Python Cheeseshop (aka PyPI). Assuming you’ve already installed python setuptools, getting libsnmp is now as easy as: easy_install libsnmp How cool is that? For… Read More
I’ve been seeing a lot of hype about “Cloud Computing” lately, the latest being some posts over at NetApp’s Absolute Architect. Several versions of this idea have been tried before, and they never really took off as a mainstream way of doing things, but each iteration gets closer. This latest… Read More
I love statistics. The part of me that wishes I was a rock star is very unhappy about me admitting that in public, but there it is. Of course, the cool kids are calling it analytics these days, but it’s still statistics. It’s a bunch of numbers that can tell… Read More
