Last week, project ILB was finally pushed to the main Solaris (nevada) repository; even though I haven't been a full member of the project team for a few months (not because of ILB's fault, btw), I do take pride in this piece of work, and congratulations to the remaining team members, above all Sangeeta, who hung on during the last few nerve-wracking weeks.
The bits will appear on opensolaris.org with build 128.
See the wiki for more details.
A lot has happened since I wrote last -- among other things, I'm now with the MySQL organisation in the Enterprise Tools team, and one challenge this group is facing is the multitude of platforms being supported.
I needed to test a bug that to all appearences I had introduced, that was only manifesting itself on Linux; since (Open)Solaris is all I had at the time on the machines I use, and I couldn't find a ready-made box running Linux, I had two choices: (re-)install a test box somewhere in the lab or use Virtualbox. I decided to go with the latter, especially as I could choose from quite a few canned OS images for Virtualbox here.
I selected a Ubuntu 64-bit image; download and installation on the lab machine went well, and I had it up & running after a fairly short time. One of the notices that Virtualbox showed me when it booted the Ubuntu VM was something about "mouse integration" being present. I hadn't seen that active before, so I was pleasantly surprised that I didn't have to press the host key every time I wanted to "escape" from the VM, as it were.
A few minutes after logging in the first time, the update manager told me it had some updates ready, did I want them? I said "yes" and let it do its work, including "reboot" at the end. To my dismay, when the VM came back up, there was no mouse integration -- I had to go back to the old behaviour of pressing the host key... I had selected "don't display this warning again" sometime earlier, and initially thought that that may have been the (unexpected) cause.
As it turns out, selecting "install guest additions" from the devices menu and then running the appropriate script got mouse integration back.
I recently had the chance to try a Toshiba Tecra M10 with OpenSolaris for a while; the idea was to find out whether I preferred it to my current one (a lenovo T60p) - its main advantage over the lenovo being that OpenSolaris supports suspend & resume, which the lenovo does not (due to its ATI graphics adapter).
I finally didn't keep it - the M10's screen resolution (1440x900) is less than the lenovo's (1680x1050), and for me the difference made the difference.
Since then, I've started looking around at the laptop market, more out of idle curiosity than anything else, and I came to realise that many vendors whose pages I looked at don't tell you up front about the screen resolution, but only about screen size - am I the only one who's interested in resolution?
Congratulations on the magnficent results of yesterday's elections! I'd like to present you with my wishlist for your first term:
I hope you can
If you manage that, you'll be a truly great president. For all that, my best wishes
Yours truly
I've been watching the preparations for tomorrow's elections with a mixture of fascination, horror, surprise and disbelief (to name but a few emotions) since the various candidates turned up and the tortuous process of primaries began ... I certainly could have paid more attention, but on the other hand, I could have paid a lot less.
Here now is one of the best articles I've read so far on this whole election drama - I can't judge whether this is that publication's usual style, but they certainly deserve kudos for this piece.
I just came across an interesting article that doesn't focus only on the candidates for the upcoming election, but also on the media's treatment of them ... and an interesting observation at the end.
Read it here.
I just saw this - I'm glad to see this happen, and I'm looking forward to more student participation @Sun!