preSEED!
I was accepted into the preSEED program. You can learn more here:
http://research.sun.com/SEED/
I will update everyone how the process works and what I learn. It hasn't started yet. But I'm excited.
Posted at 10:27PM May 19, 2009 by Eric Shobe in Personal | Comments[1]
SongBird on Solaris Sparc
Songbird:
Found the solaris SPARC package (and x86) at this website:
http://releases.mozilla.com/sun/Songbird-Solaris/releases/0.6/
thanks to: http://blogs.sun.com/pengyang/entry/songbird_0_6_on_opensolaris
I tried the .5 version and was disappointed w/ the slowness, but the .6 version is a LOT faster. I changed to use this player
instead of xmms and definitely rythmbox. Here is a screenshot on SPARC.
Posted at 10:42AM Jul 04, 2008 by Eric Shobe in Solaris | Comments[0]
B.C. Ferry
Somewhere in the San Juan Islands
Posted at 12:24AM Mar 07, 2008 by Eric Shobe in Personal | Comments[0]
Mississippi Summer
Cruising across some photos from '07, I came across some photos from Clarksville, Mo, my hometown, Right where Mark Twain grew up (where pretty close to Hannibal). I love reminiscing... This trip my friend Earney and I took my Granspas johnboat
I then take Earnie and Emily across the river (right above the dam) in a rickety boat/canoe with a 3hp
that was held together with my gpa's duck tape. The view was beautiful, plus there was an owl wing? Went fishing,
and then camped on this island on the Mississippi...
Posted at 09:28PM Jan 19, 2008 by Eric Shobe in Personal | Comments[0]
Sharks in Bolinas? Nah
So we go Surfing at Bolinas, quite often, my friend summed up his experience as so:
Summary:
today our missouri crew had another great day at our favorite surf spot BOLINAS, CA.
the swell was big and the waves were plentiful.
we've known it's very bad for shark attacks, we didn't know it made the list for WORLD's most SHARK INFESTED!
we usually think about the sharks on the drive up there - but once we
get our LIQUID COURAGE (a few pabst blue ribbons) the thought never
really enters our mind. - and if it does, the only thing that goes
through my head is "go for his eyes!"
the article...
http://swimatyourownrisk.com/2007/05/20/the-worlds-most-shark-infested-b eaches/
This is great: the article mentions that this is the 4th most place to encounter sharks..in the world :)
Bolinas Beach, Northern California: Great whites
This tiny enclave, just north of San Francisco in western Marin County,
is notorious for its bohemian ways and its desire to keep the rest of
the world at bay (apparently townsfolk frequently remove the turn-off
sign on Route One). But that doesn’t keep the sharks away. Like its
neighbors Stinson Beach and the Point Reyes Seashore (including the
mouth of Tomales Bay), Bolinas is located smack dab in the middle of
the Red Triangle (a region marked by its high density of great white
sharks). And so it appears on our list as one of the coolest shark
spots to put your toes in the water.
Posted at 11:36PM Jan 14, 2008 by Eric Shobe in Personal | Comments[1]
Dont swap HDD's on different byte ordering machines please. Data Loss
Story:
I have a x86 Sun Workstation, which is a little-endian
Platform, and I wanted to take a disk with my data on it and place it in a work Sparc Workstation, a big-endian Platform.
Sound simple right, I'm using UFS on the disk, right! right??!!!
Well, I should of read this bug and used some common sense:
4054544
RFE: wish to support different endian byte order
for Solaris. This is regarding the UFS file system, ANYWAYS in the comments there in this bug report which says:
Code:
This was after using other tools, data carving, etc, to find files. The biggest problem of all, it would find files, but not one would preserve filenames. Who wants to go through 5k images, sorting, etc, etc. I guess I could've wrote some code and tried to find it myself, but I have better things to do. Well, TODAY, this MORNING, I found another
software solution that was only 45...... Perhaps the most difficult problem to solve is that even if you do have a
file system that understands both formats, you still can not yank a disk
off a sparc machine and plug it into the intel system and have it work.
The sd driver has intimate knowledge of the disk label and partition
information, which is totally incompatible between Solaris intel and
Solaris sparc.
UMM, so what do I do, I yank a disk from Solaris intel and place it in
a Solaris sparc station, and proceed to wipe the partition of my data
disk.......and my backup data disk...SMART, (this was only because I replied YES to the format question asking me if I wanted to LABEL the HARD DRIVE). Ha, sometimes its so easy to not even think and just click yes.
So the last month, I've been scrambling to recover all this lost data. Which dates back from 98 probably. 10 years of data.
Well, after trying to manually recreate the partition table and finding
out I wiped out all my superblocks too (Dont run a fsck on a disk and
accept changes), I was about to lay down 500 dollars on this program
that found all my data.
If only took me over a month to find it, but it was worth the 450 dollars saved. Thank you GOOGLE.
So the moral of the story, back your data up, not twice, but three
times in different formats. Looking back I should've followed a couple
rules.
1. Always keep the original media in place and do a COPY to the new machine.
2. backup backup backup (should've had DVD backups)
3. buy a external HDD and keep it around as well.
4. Dont swap HDD's with different architectures, even if its the same OS. Do I really have to say this?
And if you do try to recover your data by hand, do a DD to another drive before trying to recreate the partition table, etc. My backup disk didnt work w/ the file recovery program after this, luckily I had a backup.....Any by the way, services to get back over 100gbs of data costs a LOT of money.
Posted at 10:31PM Jan 13, 2008 by Eric Shobe in Personal | Comments[4]
San Juan Sailing October
So who cares, I've been lazy, I went on a sailing trip back in October. let me just post some pictures....
Day one - Sunset in San Juan Islands
And do you think we actually did not PARTY while in the San Juan islands...heck NO! Its always nice to meet the yocal locals. This guy was hilarious with the number 1. Majic is in the background.
This next picture really epitomizes the whole trip, or rather the whole San Juan/Gulf Islands. This is my third annual trip. Just think exploring many small islands, wonderful weather, and no crowds. This is beauty.
Ciao.
Posted at 10:28PM Dec 04, 2007 by Eric Shobe in Personal | Comments[0]
Lake Sammamish Slalom
my friend MAJIC has the best pad. He overlooks Lake Sammamish in Redmond, WA.
So its October, and what better way to spend a 6am/7am morning than Slalom Skiing the ski course.
Ill post more pics later of the reason I went up to WA in the first place. Too late right now and too many beers to be drank.
Posted at 12:08AM Oct 19, 2007 by Eric Shobe in Personal | Comments[0]
Cool Stuff
Today my Professor sent me this pic of his lab:
Yes, I find this cool...Yes, I am a nerd..or as a close friends says "engi-nerd"!
Posted at 09:59PM Sep 28, 2007 by Eric Shobe in Personal | Comments[0]
Washington University in St. Louis
So this is gonna be a random blog that with shift planes, so stick with me.
1. There is an opening for a Student Ambassador for Sun Microsystems at WashU. I have been in touch with some Professors and some sound interested. If you are a student reading this, then apply here. Really, if you are a Unix/Java/Sun guru and wish to be a part of the Sun experience please email me personally and I will refer you or just click and apply.
http://www.sun.com/corp_emp/zone/search.cgi?req=555174
2. Second, everyone goes through the whole college experience and let me partially describe mine. I got my Undergraduate degree in Computer Science at University of Missouri - Columbia, after transferring 5/6 times (yes thats a lot). After graduation I decided my goal was to go to graduate school to get my Masters. I applied and against all odds (at least I thought the odds were against me) I got into my school of choice, WashU. I got my Masters in Computer Graphics. I have gained a close relationship with the Professors there and wish to note them here. Prof. Grimm (taught me all about Graphics), Prof. Gill (ACE really does RULE), Prof. Crowley, and Prof. Tao (my Mentor along w/ Grimm). If you are looking to go to school here I would highly suggest it.
3. The main reason I chose this school is because of my family history, my Grandfather, Frank O. Shobe, went to undergraduate schooling here ('38), and also received his Doctorates ('42), and taught in the Department of Psychiatry. Since he passed away ('84) there has been a yearly lectureship in the dept. which I hope to attend. Love you Grandpa!. RIP. Miss you.
Posted at 09:22PM Sep 27, 2007 by Eric Shobe in Personal | Comments[0]
Virtual Light Machine
Sometimes its good to trip out.....
My brain just exploded...
Yes it really is that psychedelic....yes its good to have a Busch Beer or two while watching.
Now, can anyone tell me what the above is and what it came from....
Posted at 11:54AM Sep 26, 2007 by Eric Shobe in Personal | Comments[2]
Surf Deck - In Sanfrancisco?
So I got a new pad in San Francisco and its a little smaller than my last place, but it has
a walk out deck into a huge garden! How nice is that. So instead of washing the ole' wetsuit in
the shower (that sucks), I can wash everything real nice outside my pad, the 'surf pad'.
Does anyone have any suggestion of year round plants that do well in San Fran?
Posted at 08:23PM Sep 16, 2007 by Eric Shobe in Personal | Comments[2]
Hidden Gems
Its always nice when developers try to sneak in hidden gems into production code!
Here is a snippet of the banner before the ok prompt.
Glendale, The Best Little Blade in the World, No Keyboard
Of course is the Best Blade in the world!!!!!!!!!
Copyright 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Posted at 06:45PM Sep 07, 2007 by Eric Shobe in Code | Comments[1]
ipod + gtkpod + solaris = world domination
A picture says a thousand words right! ... so below is a picture of my first ever mp3 player ( a used 20gb ipod) and me transferring some songs over to in on Solaris w/ gtkpod....
Life is good!
Posted at 05:18PM Aug 18, 2007 by Eric Shobe in Solaris | Comments[3]
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