Open desktop mechaniccat /dev/random | strings | grep "For being ignorant to whom it goes I writ at random, very doubtfully"lights out for earth hour- March 28, 2008 World Wildlife Federation (WWF) is sponsoring the first earth hour. If you'd like to participate, just turn of your lights (and other excess energy consuming devices)...http://blogs.sun.com/bnitz/entry/lights_out_for_earth_hour 7 years in Ireland, 7 years at Sun.- March 20, 2008 Today marks my 7 year anniversary of arriving in Ireland and working for Sun. I should thank my wife for talking me into it, my kids for making it a fun, wonderful adventure. I should thank my Sun friends for helping make it work. And finally I should thank the Irish immigration department and my other Irish friends for tolerating my reverse emigration even thought they may think it's a totally daft idea altogether.http://blogs.sun.com/bnitz/entry/7_years_in_ireland_7 dtrace getenv and GNOME- March 20, 2008 While tracking down the root cause of intermittent hangs (often 1 second) when traversing the panel menus on GNOME 2.20.1, I found some interesting things about how GNOME works. On one of my installs, the gtk-update-icon-cache hadn't been created correctly and doing anything which read an icon crashed the application (e.g. clicking on a panel menu.) This led to me to searching for the cause of this failure. I wanted to make sure gtk-update-icon-cache wasn't unnecessarily failing on...http://blogs.sun.com/bnitz/entry/dtrace_getenv_and_gnome Gobi Sun Ray client laptop and kids- March 19, 2008 At the moment, my daughter is quietly playing a playhouse Disney game on a (quiet, diskless and cool!) Accutech Gobi laptop. Under Construction This Gobi 7 is an early evaluation model and is not without its kinks. I've been trying to configure as an alternate Sun Ray client for work. After reading Dan Lacher's blog some documents and a few helpful emails, I still didn't have any luck getting the Gobi go connect via VPN through my router to Sun's servers. So I thought I'd try connecting..http://blogs.sun.com/bnitz/entry/gobi_sun_ray_client_laptop Workaround for nautiluspanel crashes in Nevada 84, 85.- March 14, 2008 A number of people have encountered a bug which causes nautilus and panel to crash on login, preventing the desktop from being used. The symptoms are: Nautilus crashes immediately on login, bringing up bug-buddy dialog. Panel crashes immediately after the user clicks the Launch menu. Any application which makes use of gtk icons crashes. The bug is only experienced on some hardware and may not occur on every install even on hardware where it fails. It is caused by a file access race..http://blogs.sun.com/bnitz/entry/workaround_for_nautilus_panel_crashes |