Monday March 20, 2006
Monday March 20, 2006
Last couple of months I was too busy with work and going places. I hope I will finish off my office work this week so that I can do some work on hdinstaller. I didn't touch hdinstaller for a long time since BeleniX 0.3 was released. I need to finish this before going further with other tools.
Adding network configuration and timezone setup, auto updating grub entries, preserving existing Solaris partitions and adding ZFS support are my immediate tasks. One more is package selection tool, but before this, we have to decide on what packaging we should follow. Moinak's idea is to have pkgsrc. As SVR4 PMS sources are out, we have one more option.
Adding network configuration and timezone setup, auto updating grub entries, preserving existing Solaris partitions and adding ZFS support are my immediate tasks. One more is package selection tool, but before this, we have to decide on what packaging we should follow. Moinak's idea is to have pkgsrc. As SVR4 PMS sources are out, we have one more option.
Suntech days - Singapore
As usual bit late in blogging. Myself and Moinak went to Singapore on 22nd to attend Sun techdays.
We used this occasion to attend Singapore OpenSolaris User Group (actually they scheduled a talk for Moinak on BeleniX) and also meet few Product Techinical Support Engineers in Singapore.
22nd we had to go chennai and collect our passports and then catch the flight to Singapore.
As our program was finalized in the last moment, we didn't yet book tickets. Getting a flight to chennai was really tough that day. We asked the travel desk to block all the flights till 10:00PM (as our flight to Singapore is at 11:00 PM).We were lucky to get tickets in Jet Airways at 8:30PM. We reached in Chennai at around 9:00PM and collected passports from the agent.
Everything went well. We reached there at 5:00AM, singapore time (2:30hr ahead).
We had kill sometime (almost 5hrs) in the hotel lobby before we got rooms
we attended the User group meet at 7:30PM. Ed was giving a preso on zones by the time we reached there...then Moinak spoke on BeleniX. It was well recieved. We met a really cool guy from sales, Ivans, who drove us to an Indian restaurant. (yep I was a Veggy, so others also joined me). We spent chatting there for hours. By the time we reached our hotel room it was 1:00AM.
Next day (24th) is the Solaris track day. So I woke up early at 7:00AM and reached the seminar room at around 8:00AM. I didn't prepare slides for the preso, just used the slides which Peter gave me. I only changed the presenter's name
The techday event started with Barry Cooks preso. Edward gave a talk on SMF. We had one more guy from Russia, called Boris, from Studio development team. He presented Studio 11.
Afternoon was my session on Multi-threading, libumem, event ports. I used the slides given by Peter. I felt it would be better to show some Multi-threaded programs and do a live debug of an app for memory leaks and memory corruption using libumem, as most of it is difficult to understand with out a demo. As I know beforehand xterm has leaks, I used it to debug. I don't know how many got it right away, but I made it sure, they got the correct pointers to go back and refer later.
We ended the session with Peter's DTrace code camp.
Over all, there is a good response here.
Sunday we went to Santosa Islands. We enjoyed a lot over there. The under water tunnel, Dolphin show and finally the Musical fountains.
We reached back around 9:00PM.
Monday we went to Sun office. Met few PTS engineers. Returned back the same day (27th) night.
We used this occasion to attend Singapore OpenSolaris User Group (actually they scheduled a talk for Moinak on BeleniX) and also meet few Product Techinical Support Engineers in Singapore.
22nd we had to go chennai and collect our passports and then catch the flight to Singapore.
As our program was finalized in the last moment, we didn't yet book tickets. Getting a flight to chennai was really tough that day. We asked the travel desk to block all the flights till 10:00PM (as our flight to Singapore is at 11:00 PM).We were lucky to get tickets in Jet Airways at 8:30PM. We reached in Chennai at around 9:00PM and collected passports from the agent.
Everything went well. We reached there at 5:00AM, singapore time (2:30hr ahead).
We had kill sometime (almost 5hrs) in the hotel lobby before we got rooms
we attended the User group meet at 7:30PM. Ed was giving a preso on zones by the time we reached there...then Moinak spoke on BeleniX. It was well recieved. We met a really cool guy from sales, Ivans, who drove us to an Indian restaurant. (yep I was a Veggy, so others also joined me). We spent chatting there for hours. By the time we reached our hotel room it was 1:00AM.
Next day (24th) is the Solaris track day. So I woke up early at 7:00AM and reached the seminar room at around 8:00AM. I didn't prepare slides for the preso, just used the slides which Peter gave me. I only changed the presenter's name
The techday event started with Barry Cooks preso. Edward gave a talk on SMF. We had one more guy from Russia, called Boris, from Studio development team. He presented Studio 11.
Afternoon was my session on Multi-threading, libumem, event ports. I used the slides given by Peter. I felt it would be better to show some Multi-threaded programs and do a live debug of an app for memory leaks and memory corruption using libumem, as most of it is difficult to understand with out a demo. As I know beforehand xterm has leaks, I used it to debug. I don't know how many got it right away, but I made it sure, they got the correct pointers to go back and refer later.
We ended the session with Peter's DTrace code camp.
Over all, there is a good response here.
Sunday we went to Santosa Islands. We enjoyed a lot over there. The under water tunnel, Dolphin show and finally the Musical fountains.
We reached back around 9:00PM.
Monday we went to Sun office. Met few PTS engineers. Returned back the same day (27th) night.