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Closed TRACKED in Bugster - Latest Statistics

For the past 11 months, I've been moving certain bugs in the "hardware", "kernel", "networking" and "software" categories in the OpenSolaris Bugzilla bugs database, over to the Sun internal Bugster bugs database, to hopefully get the attention of Sun engineers who don't monitor Bugzilla.

See two previous posts [1] [2] for more details

I ran the stats again this morning. 1176 bugs have now been moved over (not all by me), and they are currently in the following states in Bugster:

    1-Dispatched:         193    
    2-Incomplete:          53    
    3-Accepted:           145  
    4-Defer:               47
    5-Cause Known:         12     
    6-Fix Understood:      13        
    7-Fix in Progress:      8
    8-Fix Available:       17       
    10-Fix Delivered:     306       
    11-Closed:            382

Time permitting, I think I'll try to do a little more analysis on the ones still in a "Dispatched" state, to see if there is commonality and whether there is anybody that needs a prodding.

Update: I found some time. A list of all the Dispatched "Closed TRACKEDINBUGSTER" bugs sorted by product/category/subcategory and priority/severity can be found here.

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( Jan 05 2010, 11:02:24 AM PST ) [Listen] Permalink

Book Buying And Reading Statistics For 2009

My book buying habits over the last 2-3 years have been changing. I'm hardly buying any new books and have dramatically cut down on the number of books I've bought from second hand book stores. Mostly now I buy books from library book sales and for new releases, I'll read them through the local county library (which is excellent).

Here are my stats for 2009:

                            # books      $ Cost
------------------------------------------------------
Fiction:  New                  2          32.39
          Second-hand          1           4.36
          Library sales      103          76.50
          Free (gifts)        31            -
------------------------------------------------------
Total                        137         113.25
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                            # books      $ Cost
------------------------------------------------------
Non-      New                  1          14.18
Fiction   Second-hand          0            -
          Library sales       23          41.00
          Free (gifts)         2            -
------------------------------------------------------
Total                         26          55.18
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======================================================
Grand Total                  163         168.43
======================================================

The years book reading breaks down as follows:

Fiction novels                75
Non-Fiction books              6
Graphic novels                 5
SF & Fantasy magazines        35
--------------------------------
Total                        116

New authors (for me) this year and ones I'd like to read again are:

Alice Sebold
David Drake
David Michell
Geoff Nicholson
Iris Murdoch
John Barth
Khaled Hosseini
Mark Helprin
Neal Asher
Patrick O'Brian
Penelope Lively
Peter Lefcourt
Roald Dahl
Sara Gruen

For 2010 I plan to finish some of those books I started and then put down, (like Godel, Escher and Bach) and start some of those books I've been promising myself for years that I'd read (like Gravity's Rainbow).

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( Dec 31 2009, 10:42:49 AM PST ) [Listen] Permalink

Instructions For Changing an OpenSolaris Unbundled IPS Package

Yet another project team need to upgrade their unbundled OpenSolaris software, so it's time to write out the instructions and just point them at them. They will need to adjust to taste. These instructions are also some what Sun-internal specific.

[Last updated 4th February 2010].

When I'm updating one of the unbundled OpenSolaris packages, then I'll do something like the following. There needs to be a bug number in the OpenSolaris Bugzilla for this work, so let's pick a bug number of 12999:

Check out the latest pkg source workspace:

      $ mkdir -p ~/pkg/bugs/12999
      $ cd ~/pkg/bugs/12999
      $ hg clone ssh://anon@hg.opensolaris.org/hg/pkg/gate

Make any changes to the unbundled IPS package manifest file.
For example, if you wanted to change the version number for the ClusterTools8 packages, then you would edit the .../gate/src/util/distro-import/unbundleds/ClusterTools8 file and adjust the version lines accordingly.
Build and install your workspace:
```
      $ cd gate/src
      $ make -e; make -e install; make -e packages
      
```
You might need to setup your OpenSolaris machine so that the build process will work. I have some notes from about a year ago, when I went through this.
Note that the pkg build process doesn't currently work properly with GNU Makefile, so make sure your PATH is something like:
```
      export PATH=/opt/sunstudio12.1/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/gnu/bin
      
```
so that it picks up the correct Makefile.
There are a couple of packages you might need to install to get pkg (and associated packaging commands) to run properly. These are:
```
        $ pfexec pkg install SUNWpython26-pyopenssl
        $ pfexec pkg install SUNWpython26-simplejson
      
```
Copy three shell scripts (originally written by David Comay):
start-depotd
start-import
start-cluster
into ~/pkg/bugs/12999/gate and adjust them accordingly. If you look at them, you'll hopefully see what needs to be tweaked for your unbundled package. Let me know if you need more details.
Run a local pkg.depotd server
In one terminal window, I'll start up the pkg.depotd process by running:
```
      $ cd ~/pkg/bugs/12999/gate
      $ start-depotd
      
```
and then monitor it with:
```
      $ tail -f errs.depotd
      
```

Before I can publish my unbundled package, I need to publish any WOS ON package to my local repository. This needs to be done otherwise certain things in the publish process aren't setup correctly:

In another terminal window, I'll start up the importer.py package publishing process with:

      $ cd ~/pkg/bugs/12999/gate
      $ start-import

and then monitor it with:

      $ tail -f errs.import

Note that you should set:

JUST_THESE_PKGS to just the single package you'd like published. In this case I picked SUNWiscsi (but it can be any of them).

At the end of the errs.import output you will see something like:

      ./build_entire_incorporation: fatal error
      *** Error code 1
      make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `126/entire.incorporation'
      Current working directory /export/home/george/ips/gate/src/util/distro-import
      *** Error code 1
      make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `126/entire'
      Current working directory /export/home/george/ips/gate/src/util/distro-import
      *** Error code 1
      make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `redist_import'
      Current working directory /export/home/george/ips/gate/src/util/distro-import
      *** Error code 1
      make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `126/redist_import'

These errors can be ignored. You just need to make sure you got an output line earlier, similar to:

      PUBLISHED: pkg://bug12999/SUNWiscsi@0.5.11,5.11-0.126:20091214T185611Z

Now it's time to publish the unbundled package. I do this in yet another terminal window with:
```
      $ cd ~/pkg/bugs/12999/gate
      $ start-cluster
      
```
and then monitor it with:
```
      $ tail -f errs.cluster
      
```
NONWOS_PKGS to a list of the places where you can find the Non-WOS SVR4 packages (space separated). In other words, add the location of your new unbundled SVR4 packages to the front of this list if one of the existing entries doesn't already contain them. This will be something like:
```
      export NONWOS_PKGS="/where/my/packages/are /net/paradise.sfbay/export/integrate_dock/nv/nv_osolub/all /net/paradise.sfbay/export/integrate_dock/nv/nv_osolub/${ARCH} /net/paradise/export/integrate_dock/nv/nv_osol0906/${ARCH} /net/paradise/export/integrate_dock/nv/nv_osol0906/all"
      
```
The start-cluster script is setup to publish against build 111. If you want to publish your unbundled packages against another build (say 126), then adjust the BUILDNO= line accordingly.
If it's successfully published the packages to my local repository, I can then look at them via my browser at http://stard.sfbay.sun.com:32999

I will then need to install and test my new packages:

      $ pfexec pkg set-authority -P -O http://stard.sfbay.sun.com:32999 bug12999
      $ pfexec pkg install clustertools
      $ pfexec pkg set-authority -P opensolaris.org
      $ pfexec pkg unset-authority bug12999

Then I'll test these new package(s), and repeat steps 2-8 as needed.
When things are looking good, you will need to get a code review. For simple changes like this, the differences can be sent as part of the message to the pkg-discuss mailing list. Use:
```
      $ hg diff
      
```
to get a set of diffs for the changes you've made. An example of such a code review request can be found here.
When the code review request has been approved, then the changes need to be checked into the pkg source workspace. Initially unbundled project team members won't have checkin permission to this workspace, so they will need to send the diffs to somebody who does.
First commit the changes:
```
      $ cd ~/pkg/bugs/12999/gate
      $ hg commit
      
```
This puts you in the text editor. Add a one line comment to describe the change. Something like:
```
      12999 Upgrade ClusterTools 8 to version 8.2.1
      
```
Note the changeset number with:
```
      $ hg tip
      changeset:   1470:0775809e07bd
      tag:         tip
      user:        Rich Burridge 
      date:        Thu Nov 09 12:39:57 2009 -0800
      summary:     12999 Upgrade ClusterTools 8 to version 8.2.1
      
```
Export the changeset:
```
      $ hg export 1470:0775809e07bd >~/PKG-EXPORT/pkg-12999.patch
      
```
and then send the pkg-12999.patch file to the pkg developer who can check it in for you.

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( Nov 10 2009, 07:23:58 AM PST ) [Listen] Permalink

Spicy vegetarian chili from scratch

Just made an excellent spicy vegetarian chili from scratch.
Have water, bread and kleenex handy.

3 tbl Olive oil
1 diced red pepper
1 diced medium onion
6 crushed cloves of garlic
2 diced large carrots

2 tbl chili powder
1 1/2 tsp cumin
1/2 tsp cayenne
2 tsp italian seasoning

1 14 oz can of black beans
1 14 oz can of white beans
1 14 oz can of pinquito beans
1 28 oz can of roasted diced tomatoes
1 packet of frozen corn
1 4 oz can of jalapeno chilies
3 tbl of tomato paste

3 chopped large mushrooms

Heat oil in large saucepan until hot.
Add red pepper, onion, garlic and carrot to pan and heat (medium to hot) for 8 minutes.
Add spices to pan, stir and heat for 2 minutes.
Add beans, tomatoes, corn, jalapeno chilies and tomato paste to pan and simmer for 15 minutes.
Add mushroom to pan, stir in, and simmer for another 15 minutes.

Serves 6-8 (depending how hungry you are).

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( Sep 20 2009, 05:36:53 PM PDT ) [Listen] Permalink Comments [2]

Links for 20th September 2009

Links for 30th August 2009

Links for 10th August 2009

I've been busy with other things lately, but here's a summary of the small number of my recent interesting tweets.

The Case Against Apple [link]
(via Simon Phipps).
Finally discovered http://icanhascheezburger.com. Three of my cat favorites: [1] [2] [3]
Had a hack attack. gcalctool: 55 libraries & 99MB to add 2 numbers. Bloat! Now calctty: 3 libraries and 9400KB.
Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale [link]
(via Chris Blizzard).
After the Pentatonic scale I had to dig up 2 other McFerrin pieces: with help from Bona and with help from Pixar
Caption Contest Friday: Anyone Missing An Intern? [link]
Capillary action color calendar that automatically updates itself [link]
(via Make: blog).

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( Aug 10 2009, 10:53:44 AM PDT ) [Listen] Permalink Comments [1]

Links for 27th July 2009

A summary of my more interesting recent twittering.

Rhythmbox is much better than Amarok for managing my iPod [link]
All Scrubs episode now watched. Favorite moments are: [1] [2] [3]
Script to find dogs for @dustidog to follow on Twitter [link]
Learned what the following/followers ratio is. Sigh.
Love the new Export feature in the Sun blogging software [link]
Never underestimate the stupidity of your fellow humans [link]
(via popurls).
Use The "Egyptian Method" to Sleep Well on a Hot Night [link]
(via popurls).
50 Creative and Inspiring 404 Pages [link]
The conspiracy one is my favorite.
(via popurls).
Zipper Pond in Taiwan [link]
(via Make: Blog).
Incredible rubber tire sculptures [link]
R.I.P. Walter Cronkite. I see Wikipedia have already updated his web page [link]
Twenty visualizations to understand crime: [link]
(via Nat Torkington's blog).
Love the current Google home page image for 40th Anniversary of landing on the moon: [link]
Tut exhibition at the de Young museum in San Francisco [link]
Last saw a Tut exhibition at British Museum in 1971.
(Update: the de Young exhibit is excellent. Plenty of things I hadn't seen before, shown well and with lots of time to see it all).
Wikipedia entry for the recent solar eclipse. [link]
Was easily able to show him where it was with the help of their animated gif (which now seems to be missing from their web page).
Ordered our first jigsaw puzzle from Artifact Puzzles: [link]
(Update: puzzle arrived over the weekend via Amazon. Very pleased with it. Excellent value. 254 laser cut wooden pieces which took us 2-1/4 hours to complete. One minor annoyance was that one of the "tabs" on one of the pieces must have broke off when it was being made, and had been white glued back on. When I went to fit it to its neighbor, I had to force it because of a surplus of white glue preventing a precision fit. Everything is fine, I just won't be separating those two pieces ever again.
If anybody from Artifact Puzzles reads this, I recommend putting the picture of the puzzle on the lid of the wooden box it comes in, rather than the end. It's easier to hold that way, as you try to match pieces against picture).
Rice paddy crop art [link]
Scroll to the bottom of the page for the complete picture.
(via MAKE: blog).
Apollo software open sourced [link]
I wonder if this makes it the oldest piece of FOSS.
(via MAKE: blog).
43 weird things said in job interviews [link]
(My favorite question from an interviewee: "Will Sun pay for my psychiatric treatment?")
Amazon says they are sorry [link]
That's a good start. Well done.
(via Make blog)
"Old" news from May: World premiere of brain orchestra [link]
There's something vaguely disturbing about this
(via Make: blog).
Joseph Odhiambo, world record basketball dribbler [link]
7 creative and highly original casual games to sharpen your mind [link]
splitter is addictive.
(via Mountain View Public library Twitter @MVPublicLibrary)
Blocks with Letters On is even more addictive than splitter [link]
Don't go there!

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( Jul 27 2009, 09:52:10 AM PDT ) [Listen] Permalink

Instructions For Testing an OpenSolaris IPS Package Change

I've written these notes out for two people so far, so it's probably time I created a blog post. I can then just point future interested parties here, and they can adjust to taste. The notes are some what Sun-internal specific.

When I'm trying to fix a bug that involves changing the way that an IPS package is created from an SVR4 package, then I'll do something like the following. (This was for bug #9683):

First I check out the latest pkg source workspace:

      $ mkdir ~/pkg/bugs/9683
      $ cd ~/pkg/bugs/9683
      $ hg clone ssh://richb@hg.opensolaris.org/hg/pkg/gate

Next, I'll edit the files in the workspace as appropriate and build it:
```
      $ cd gate/src
      $ make -e; make -e install; make -e packages
      
```
You might need to setup your OpenSolaris machine so that the build process will work. I have some notes from about a year ago, when i went through this.
Note that the pkg build process doesn't currently work properly with GNU Makefile, so make sure your PATH is something like:
```
      export PATH=/opt/SunStudioExpress/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/gnu/bin
      
```
so that it picks up the correct Makefile.
Next, I'll copy two shell scripts, start-depotd and start-import (originally written by David Comay) into ~/pkg/bugs/9683/gate and adjust them accordingly. If you look at them, you'll hopefully see what needs to be tweaked for your situation. Let me know if you need more details.
Next I need to run a local pkg.depotd server
In one terminal window, I'll start up the pkg.depotd process by running:
```
      $ cd ~/pkg/bugs/9683/gate
      $ start-depotd
      
```
and then monitor it with:
```
      $ tail -f errs.depotd
      
```
Next I need to publish my new package(s) to my local repository:
In another terminal window, I'll start up the solaris.py package publishing process with:
```
      $ cd ~/pkg/bugs/9683/gate
      $ start-import
      
```
and then monitor it with:
```
      $ tail -f errs.import
      
```
Note that you should set:
JUST_THESE_PKGS to just the list of packages you'd like publish (space separated).
WOS_PKGS to a list of the places where you can find the SVR4 packages (space separated). In other words, add the location of your new SVR4 packages to the front of this list. This will be something like:
```
      export WOS_PKGS="/where/my/packages/are /net/netinstall.sfbay/export/nv/x/111/Solaris_11/Product/"
      
```
The script is setup to publish against build 111. If you want to publish against another build (say 118), then adjust the two occurrences of "111" accordingly.
If it's successfully published the packages to my local repository, I can then look at them via my browser at http://stard.sfbay.sun.com:29683

I will then need to install and test my new packages:

      $ pfexec pkg set-authority -P -O http://stard.sfbay.sun.com:29683 bug-9683
      $ pfexec pkg install SUNWcs
      $ pfexec pkg set-authority -P opensolaris.org
      $ pfexec pkg unset-authority bug-9683

Then I'll test these new package(s), and repeat steps 2-6 as needed.

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( Jul 14 2009, 12:17:32 PM PDT ) [Listen] Permalink Comments [1]

Links for 2nd July 2009

A summary of my more interesting recent twittering.

The President of Brazil holding an OpenSolaris T-shirt [link]
(via Kelly Nishimura)
A Paper Craft Castle On the Ocean [link]
(via @lbkwrm)
Favorite Scrubs Episode (#100) [part 1] [part 2] [part 3]
Kid swaps his iPod touch with Sony Walkman [link]
"It took me 3 days to figure out the tape had a 2nd side"
(via Alex Muffett)
Miss Ellie - world's most ugly pedigree dog [link]
I'm so glad we have a cute looking mutt.
Dunking Devils (Basketball trick shots) [link]
Getting my iPod working with my Ubuntu desktop.
1st, fix the read-only problem [link]
2nd, use Amorok to easily transfer music to the iPod [link]
Humor: Owls on drugs [link]
(via @lbkwrm)
An alarm clock for really heavy sleepers [link]
Would hate to wake up in that with a hangover.
(via HackADay)

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( Jul 02 2009, 12:53:53 PM PDT ) [Listen] Permalink

Links for 25th June 2009

A summary of my more interesting recent twittering.

Open Source kit to put Jesus on your toast [link]
(via HackADay). As kaj comments: The Father, the Son, and the Holy Toast.
In case of fire, do not Twitter [link]
(via Popurls).
Twitter Users Heckle Hoekstra En Masse [link]
Wild prediction here, but I bet @petehoekstra won't twit'ter so much from now on.
Pete Hoekstra's twitter gives Jon Stewart comedy fodder [link]
(via Rebecca)
Tried turning my blog into a Zine with zinepal [link]
Needs work. Didn't include the images with each entry.
The spawn of Twitter [link]
Now an interactive version of the chart would be really impressive
(via Nat Torkington's blog).
Mythbuster's Adam Savage's Maker Faire Saturday talk on Colossal Failures which we missed [link]
20 Creative and Unique Typefaces [link]
Everybody will comment on #2, so why should I be different? Ouch!
(via @neilhimself)
The Twitter Book [link]
Lots of ideas for a great Twitter experience.
Potential nominee for Parent of the Year award: [link]
No idea if it's true.
(via PopUrls).
Caffeine and your kid Three useful resources [link 1] [link 2] [link 3]

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( Jun 25 2009, 08:52:15 AM PDT ) [Listen] Permalink

Links for 12th June 2009

A summary of my more interesting recent twittering.

Sinnerman - Nina Simone [link]
The Twitter Book [link]
Alice 3D [link]
Great for teaching kids how to program and enjoy it at the same time.
For crochet'y people everywhere [link]
San Jose Mercury News to charge for web content [link]
Good luck with that.
AP Economic Stress Index [link]
(via Nat Torkington's blog).
OpenSolaris 2009.06 announced [link]
OpenSolaris 2009.06 What's New [link]
Couple clips from the Scrubs season 8. Sesame St. / Muppets episode [link] [link]
Maker's Faire [link]
The Audies for 2009: [link]
Neil Gaiman wins one for The Graveyard
Transcript of the OpenSolaris 2009.06 chat on Slashdot [link]

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( Jun 12 2009, 08:06:02 AM PDT ) [Listen] Permalink

Links for 29th May 2008

A summary of my more interesting recent twittering.

Google Wave [link]
(thanks Rebecca).
What to do when you really really need the number to be random [link]
(via HackADay).
Web 2.0 company status update [link]
Load of dead companies there.
Article [link]
(via Nat Torkington's blog).
Tommy Emmanuel & Martin Taylor Four handed guitar [link]
Ukulele Orch. of GB: The Good the Bad the Ugly [link]
A SpareBot-inspired spaceship [link]
(via Hack A Day).
Say it with flowers [link]
Getting mesmerized.
Thunderbird start page now providing useful folder summary info [link]
(via Nat Torkington's blog).
Visualization in sports [link]
Love the bit on all the shots in the NBA 2007-8 season. Static image here.
Keyboard pants [link]
New pattern found in the Prime Numbers [link]
(thanks Tim Bray)
Eat Fast Get Fat? [link]
(Via O'Reilly Radar).

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( May 29 2009, 08:49:36 AM PDT ) [Listen] Permalink Comments [1]

Blog Translation

Finally got around to adding a Google Translate widget to my blog. Up there. Near the top left corner. Use it to translate these blog pages into your favorite language. 34 to choice from.