Open desktop mechaniccat /dev/random | strings | grep "For being ignorant to whom it goes I writ at random, very doubtfully"Squandering solstice daylight- June 21, 2008 Light pollution is one of my pet peeves. For example, excessively bright and misdirected "security lights" illuminate some barns and gas stations to a level where dentistry and brain surgery could be performed. There seems to be an assumption that doubling the illuminated wattage per square meter halves the crime rate. I find that nighttime light pollution continues to grow worse in the U.S. Many children born east of the Mississippi have never seen more than a couple hundred stars. ...http://blogs.sun.com/bnitz/entry/squandering_solstice_daylight My OpenSolaris for Developers talk at the Irish Opensource Technology Conference- June 21, 2008 I should thank the sponsors and organizers of the Irish OpenSource Technology Conference (IOTC) for giving me the opportunity to present OpenSolaris as an Open Source Developer Tool to some of Ireland's brightest and most energetic open source developers. There were quire a few university attendees and Barry was able to bring in people from small and midsized Irish companies such as openApp and hosting365 as well as multinationals such as Microsoft, IBM, RedHat, Sun and AIB (more about this...http://blogs.sun.com/bnitz/entry/my_opensolaris_for_developers_talk How to keep gam_server from doing too much- June 14, 2008 The Gamin file monitoring subsystem was introduced to OpenSolaris a few months ago. Since it monitors file changes, there are cases where it can become very busy and consume significant system resources. Most of the resource consumption issues will probably be fixed by build 92, but for those of us running OpenSolaris 2008.05 or Nevada builds before build 92, or those of us with special requirements such as remote NFS mounted home directories, AlekZ's Scratchpad has a very nice workaround to..http://blogs.sun.com/bnitz/entry/how_to_keep_gam_server |