Heat pump

This weekend I got help from my friend to install a heat pump in my house, and so far it has been a huge success! We got a relatively large room in the basement (~50m^2) where I got my home office, my guitars and the TV. I have just finished renovating this room (replaced the carpet floor with tiles and painted the walls), but it is usually very cold down there since no one remembers to light the fireplace before we want to watch TV.

With the heat pump mounted in the basement, it's been a pure pleasure coming home from work and go down in the basement to watch TV.

Posted at 08:07PM Jan 29, 2008 by trond in Personal  |  Comments[0]

SunRay @ home

The fans and the disks in my desktop computer is driving my girlfriend crazy, so I decided to go ahead and try to configure my good old SunRay 1G I got. My desktop machine is an old 3GHz Intel P4 with 1,3GB of RAM with two 300GB disks spinning all the time (they are used in an ZFS mirror), so it sounds like an airplane just before takeoff... My desktop is located in the basement and is connected to a wireless router upstairs with a D-Link DWL-G520. I also have a wired network adapter in the machine connected to a switch, so I just connected the SunRay to the switch and ran the software installer. After running utconfig and utadm I got the login screen up on the SunRay!!! Now I just need to find a room in the basement where I can put my server :-)

Posted at 09:32PM Jan 28, 2008 by trond in Personal  |  Comments[0]

One year @ Sun

I have just completed my first year working for Sun, and it's been a very interesting year for me. I am working on HADB (a clustered database), which is quite a change from the email systems I've been working on in the past so I have had a lot to learn. The project is filled with highly skilled people willing to explain the glory details of the internal workings of the database, making the transition a lot easier for me.

I hope the next years will be as interesting and great as this one :-)
 

Posted at 08:24AM Jul 12, 2007 by trond in Personal  |  Comments[0]

Amazing powder-snow

Today I went snowboarding for the first time this year. This have been a really stressful year for me, so I have not found time earlier this winter to go snowboarding. It was snowing constantly the whole day, creating a lot of powder-snow making it a perfect day :-)

Posted at 07:39PM Apr 06, 2007 by trond in Personal  |  Comments[0]

Seeking new opportunities

I just found out that a former co-worker (from my time working for Thales Norway), and a good friend of mine, Ketil Johnsen have decided to leave Thales and start to work for ARM creating 2D and 3D embedded graphics solutions.

I wish you the best of luck in your new position.
 

Posted at 01:00PM Apr 04, 2007 by trond in Personal  |  Comments[0]