Staring at the C

Chess Boxing.

Occasionally, people try to tell me that dogs aren’t stupid.

Rick-rolling: Finally, Rick Astley speaks.

“The fact that you can use Control-click to open URLs in Gnome Terminal is not very discoverable.” dgh, I think you might have revolutionalarised my life!

I’m not that bothered about lamps in general, but lamps that can knit themselves are quite good:

No, I’m afraid it’s not sensible to attempt to benchmark OS performance by running it as a VM.

This video will most likely give you terrifying nightmares, but at least they’ll be really cool nightmares.

For some reason only just now getting around to listening to Fujiya & Miyagi album, though I’ve got a couple of their 10"s.

New Portishead video: Machine Gun.

My musical inbox is getting a little out of hand: The pile of CDs in the background is especially daunting.

How To Create A Running Gag, courtesy of one of the few webcomics I like, Basic Instructions.

When Things Explode is a new site about Manchester music, although it’s currently only a blog.

I’ve moved my blog to blogspot.com, so I can add pictures and the like without having to bugger about too much as I did on Advogato.

DTrace support for xenstored has just been merged in the upstream community version of Xen.

When OpenSolaris got started, #solaris was a channel filled with pointless rants about GNU-this and Linux-that.

Maintaining the compatibility of hardware virtualization solutions can be tricky.

Build 75 of Solaris Express Community Edition is now out, and it includes our bits.

After answering a query, I said I'd write a blog entry describing what changes we've made to support clean shutdown and start of Xen domains.

After an undesirably long time, I'm happy to say that another drop of Solaris on Xen is available here.

A significant portion of the Xen control tools are written in Python, in particular xend.

Whilst I'm waiting for my home directory to reappear, I thought I'd mention some of the work I've done to support easy booting of domains in Xen.

Coming to you in build 53 of OpenSolaris is 64-bit Python, which I worked on with Laszlo Peter of JDS fame.

In honour of our new release of OpenSolaris on Xen, here's some details on the changes I've made to support save/resume (and hence migration and live migration) with MP Solaris domUs.

Today, we were seeing a very odd crash in some xen code.

In this post, I'm going to give a quick walk through the major changes we've made so far in doing our port of Solaris to the Xen "platform".

Today we released our current source tree for our Solaris Xen port; for more details and the downloads see the Xen community on OpenSolaris.

The Solaris kernel contains a fair amount of assembly, and this often needs to access C structures (and in particular know the size of such structures, and the byte offsets of their members).

SMF introduced the notion of a service as a first-order object in the Solaris OS.

CTF (Compact C Type Format) encapsulates a reduced form of debugging information similar to DWARF and the venerable stabs.

According to VisitorVille, nearly half of web users within Sun are using Windows.

Marvellous comment from Ian Hixie, over in the infamous Mozilla bug 25537: > Keep in mind the old saying that a committee is a life form with six or more > legs, but no brain.

John Peel dies aged 65.

I've not been able to access my homedir (and hence my work mail) all day.

A comment on IRC: so, is the whole blogs.sun.com thing a place for employees to vent their inevitable frustrations, but in a place where absolutely no one will ever see them and thus they can't cause any damage whatever?

Micah Abbott complains that there isn't an internal push for people to use JDS/Linux on their desktops.

Since it seems that Advogato is down, with no signs of it returning, and my current hosting isn't suitable, I'll probably end up blogging here (translation: unimportant rant every three months).