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{ Yearly Archives } 2005

First OpenSolaris Distribution

And the first distribution using OpenSolaris is out already! Schillix is only in version 0.1, but still, that’s pretty impressive, given they’ve had all of 4 days. (Via c0t0d0s0).

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OpenSolaris

Well, it’s out. OpenSolaris, that is. I thought it would be fun to indulge in a little fake historical writing (or dreaming, some of it really out there)…
Even the people in the middle of it all, those who came up with the idea of making Solaris open source, those who came up with the idea [...]

Comment Spam

Anyone else notice a flood (well, trickle) of comment spams? They are comments of the form “great site”, “glad I found this site” etc, i.e., all mindless comments that could apply to any site, with senders that are poker or online gambling sites. Somehow they’re getting past Spam Karma 2 (which normally catches all [...]

Pilates Reprogramming

One side-effect of working in the software world is a tendency to use programming as an analogy for life. Just to prove this, when people ask why I do Pilates I use a couple of programming analogies about how the whole process works. Pilates is a method of exercise which I started doing after tiring [...]

Upgrading WP

Last week I upgraded the blog software to WordPress 1.5.1 from 1.5. Herewith a few notes for others planning to do this.
The upgrade was mostly uneventful, with only two problems of any note, underscoring that you really should deactivate any plugins you have before starting the upgrade process:

BAStats doesn’t work, as it appears some of [...]

Friday the 13th

I spent a certain proportion of Friday morning watching the webcast of the Scott and Steve show - the update of the collaboration work that Microsoft and Sun started a year ago. Lots of other people have blogged about what was shown and the implications (try Tim, Eve, Pat, Robin, Greg and Jonathan for some [...]