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Friday January 26, 2007

Snow A little late I know but we had some snow in the South of England this week. The usual 1 or 2 inches causing the rail and road infrastructure to break down, schools to be closed and food rationing to be enforced.

Fortunately our boys school wasn't closed but we did have a great snowball fight before and on the way to school.

Plus this was the first experience for our spaniel in the snow

I might post some more as I go through them.
Posted by cwb ( Jan 26 2007, 02:36:29 PM GMT ) Permalink

Monday January 22, 2007

Using the OpenSolaris Mercurial repository
I finally decided to have a look at how you get OpenSolaris from the Mercurial repository I've been put off by the fact at the office we're behind a fire wall, so you have to pull it through a Socks proxy.

I turns out it's absolutely trivial to do (the instructions are all on the OpenSolaris WebSite.

If you're behind a firewall that requires you to have a proxy for ssh th first thing you need to do is set up ssh to use a proxy. I can't help you with that other than to say add the following line to your ssh config for opensolaris.org

$ cat ~/.ssh/config
Host *.opensolaris.org
ProxyCommand /usr/lib/ssh/ssh-socks5-proxy-connect -h [Proxy IP address] %h %p
Compression yes
(thanks to Erik and Stephen for pointing out the compression option)
Putting in the IP address of your socks proxy.

Now you can clone the repository

$ hg clone ssh://anon-AT-hg.opensolaris-DOT-org/hg/onnv/onnv-gate
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 3487 changesets with 67524 changes to 43099 files
39742 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

It took only 37 minutes to my home machine which is much faster than a full bringover in teamware

Now to start playing with some of the build tools
Posted by cwb ( Jan 22 2007, 06:32:11 PM GMT ) Permalink Comments [5]

Monday January 08, 2007

Is it 2007 already?

Thanks to Patrick for tagging me and making me realise I hadn't touched my blog in ages.

I've been so busy, travelling to present at the Tech day in Prague, meeting our colleagues over in Grenoble. Working on FMA, and now finally being pulled in to porting Solaris on Xen to Solaris 10.

Busy times along with getting on with having a dog, buying a new camera. Christmas and all....

Any way Patrick tagged me to come up with 5 things you didn't (or didn't need to) know about me.

1. Despite my accent, I was born and grew up in the North East of England. In a town called Darlington

I sometimes have a hankering to move back.

2. I went to school with England Rugby player Tony Underwood (who has recentley also appeared on programme about Easyjet)

3. I went to UCL and studied Applied Physics at which the only course I really enjoyed were Planetary Geology (Colouring in photos of Mars) and Operating System Design (hence what I do now)

4. I'm a firm believer in rational process as defined by Kepner Tragoe. I find it helpful in defining a problem or situation I find myself in and giving me a structure to progressing it. I enjoy facilitating people to use this and used it recentley to help establish priorities for the future of FMA.

5. Apparentley if I was a Super Hero I'd be Spiderman (like many people around here...)
You are Spider-Man

Spider-Man		70%
Superman		65%
Robin		60%
Green Lantern		60%
Iron Man		55%
Supergirl		53%
Wonder Woman		43%
The Flash		40%
Catwoman		35%
Hulk		35%
Batman		35%

You are intelligent, witty,
a bit geeky and have great
power and responsibility.

Click here to take the Superhero Personality Test

So you may have know some of those, but I hope it was interesting. I here by tag Gavin, Peter, and Jon
Posted by cwb ( Jan 08 2007, 12:02:01 PM GMT ) Permalink Comments [2]