What I know, What I don't know: Share what you know and what you don't know with Colin Zou. :-)

Last week, I am asked to write a self description using third person's tone for a web page. At first, I felt a little unaccustomed, but then I found it is interesting. Just like watching yourself in the mirror, you feel you are looking at yourself outside of you.

The following are what I wrote for myself. ;-)

Colin Zou is working in Solaris development team. He works on
Solaris USB device drivers and framework since the year 2003. In the
last four years, he integrated  several USB device drivers to Solaris,
such as USB video class driver for webcams, Keyspan USB-to-Serial
driver, etc. He fixed dozens of bugs, covering USB framework to various
USB drivers.

As one of the pioneers in USB China team, Colin also works
as a mentor in the team. He interviewed nearly a hundred of developer
candidates, and mentored a couple of new hires and interns. In recent
two years, he works as USB team lead and the team is responsible for
the whole Solaris USB software stack. Colin is now working on UWB &
Wireless USB support project. Stay tuned, when the project is released,
Solaris users can enjoy the new technology. :-)

Colin has acquired the Ph.D. degree from Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Highlights:

Engaged in Solaris development and innovation, working on high priority
projects and customer issues. He is one of the leaders of device driver
community on OpenSolaris.org. Any questions about Solaris USB? Ask
Colin. He will answer your questions directly or point you to the right
team members. Colin participated in the translation work of "Solaris
Internals" book (2nd Edition). He contributed two and a half chapters
to the Chinese version book. To know more about Colin Zou, just Google
his name or take a look at the following links, including profile page,
blog, and project pages created by him.

• OpenSolaris Member Profile
• UWB & Wireless USB Support
• USB Drivers for Solaris
• USB Video Class driver on Solaris
• Enhance the support of USB webcams
• Blog

Emails: 

Colin.Zou@sun.com
Colin.Zou@gmail.com 

Since the year 2005, before the English version "Solaris Internals, 2nd Edition" formally published, a group of Sun engineers in ERI
site (located in Beijing, China) started to translate the book into Chinese. Fortunately, I am one of them. We work on the translation in
weekends, vacations, and even holidays. I myself spent three "golden weeks" and some vacation days working on the translation, contributed two and
a half chapters to the Chinese version book. Recently, in June, 2007, the Chinese version book is published. It looks fabulous! When I see it
at the first glance, I felt that I was looking at my baby in expectation for a long time.

This book can be easily found at a popular book store in China, there are already some comments about it from the readers.

http://www.china-pub.com/computers/common/info.asp?id=34295

I heard that some Chinese universities are going to use it as a reference book for their OS courses. I will be happy if the book will
have a mass of readers.

As most of the staff working in Sun China sites, I have a Chinese name and an
English name. Because we work in a bi-lingual environment, English and Chinese.
My Chinese name is Zou Yong, it is given by my parents, get along with
me since I was born. My English name is Colin Zou, I use it since the
year 2003 I joined Sun. I like it because it is easy to pronounce for
both Chinese and English speaking people. My family name is Zou. You
might already notice that people in China and some of the Asian
countries always put their family name as the first place, this is the
most obvious culture difference between western and eastern countries, I guess. ;-)

Live upgrade, I like it. I have been using it for years.
 
There is a GUI tool to perform live upgrade, a little trick is, you need run xterm first, then type lu in xterm window.

$ xhost +

access control disabled, clients can connect from any host

$ su

Password:

# xterm

Then in xterm,

# lu

By this GUI tool, you need not to remember the command names. And it is very straight forward. I tested it on both Solaris 10 and Solaris Express developer edition.

For more info about live upgrade, search document at http://docs.sun.com/