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Friday August 26, 2005

Least Privilege Chapter done

This week I completed a draft of the Least Privilege chapter, based on some technical content from Casper Dik. It's added about 40 pages to the book. Darren Moffat is working on a complementary chapter on the Solaris 10 crypto framework too, so this edition will have a Security section...

[ T: OpenSolaris Solaris ]

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Chasing the Sanfrancisco Fog

Sometimes I think we're a little crazy, reviewing the amount of effort invested in a simple, nonsensical goal like this one: trying to capture the essence of the fog around Sanfrancisco...

Recently, we ascended the higher vantages on the Marin headlands, looking for the golden gate bridge nestled in a blanket of fog.

Here you can see Joost Pronk waiting patiently for the fog to lower and reveal the perfect image...

After getting sunburned, we left with no such pictures. We were entertained for quite some time by interesting implementations of chaos theory at work:

So this week's pictures are two of the city, but not actually what we set out to get:

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Friday August 19, 2005

This week's picture

Phil Harman and I took a quick trip to Yosemite earlier this year, and stumbled across this scene with the sun setting over the windmills at Altamont Pass, just east of the bay area.

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Friday August 12, 2005

File System Performance Benchmarks (FileBench) added to Performance Community

For those who have been following FileBench, we've finally Open Sourced it (FileBench is our file system performance measurement and benchmark framework). We've started a community web page and discussion within the OpenSolaris performance community for this topic.

We're working on some Linux ext3/rieser comparisons to server partly as a workload validation experiment; which should be available soon.

Documentation is being worked on as we speak. I'll be providing some worked examples for reference in the near future.

[ T: OpenSolaris Solaris ]