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Tuesday July 29, 2008
Cool Cuil & Privacy
Have you seen Cuil yet? Its a new search engine founded by some ex Google folks among others. The area that has really grabbed my attention is their privacy policy, my favourite part being
when you search with Cuil, we do not collect any personally identifiable information, period. We have no idea who sends queries: not by name, not by IP address, and not by cookies (more on this later). Your search history is your business, not ours.
Music to my ears, and Cuil is now my default search engine on the privacy basis alone. The Irish connection does of course help :).
(2008-07-29 03:43:56.0)
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Monday July 28, 2008
Solaris Nevada 94 on Acer Aspire 5610
I've been a bit lax on my Nevada upgrades for my laptop recently, but I got a chance today to bring myself back up to date with snv_94. If your going to install this on an Acer Aspire 5610 you will run into a panic on boot due to some recent ACPI changes.
Straight off on boot you will get a panic similar to below, you will however
need to boot in kmdb mode to see this properly (just add -k to your grub options).
ddi_driver_major+9(0)
ddi_create_minor_common+0x51(0, f97a5538, 2000, 400, f97a5720, 0)
ddi_create_minor_node+0x25(0, f97a5538 , 2000, 400, f97a5720, 0)
acpi_drv`acpi_drv_attach+0xc2()
The work around is to add -B disable-acpi_drv=true to your grub options, my snv_94 grub entry reads
title snv_94
root (hd0,2,a)
kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B disable-acpi_drv=true -B acpi-user-options=8
module$ /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive
There is a fix in place for snv_95, and the relevant bugs are
- 6726425 - Dell XPS M1330 panic in 32 bit kernel.
- 6727562 - acpi_drv: snv_94 panics on 3 different laptops.
(2008-07-28 06:36:53.0)
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Wednesday July 02, 2008
The LinkedIn Cloud
An interesting blog which passed over my desk recently on Linked In's architecture. Well worth a read. Solaris, Java & MySQL - seems like the perfect software stack to me ;).
(2008-07-02 03:19:21.0)
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