Sun BloggersWelcome to Blogs.sun.com! This space is accessible to any Sun employee to write about anything.The First Day of Software Freedom Day 2008- September 17, 2008 Finally, the first day of my Software Freedom Day has come. Although lots of problems has happenned previously, the event still go on with a satisfied result. The event has been taken place at the Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University. At first, I think the booth will be no more than a haunted forest, but only 1 hours passed, we have around 30 people join us. This is an amazing thing that I haven't plan before. The bad thing is that the supported gifts from Sun's Office...http://blogs.sun.com/santhiti/entry/the_first_day_of_software Image Packaging System (IPS) Best Practices Wiki- September 17, 2008 This site is oriented toward people adopting the open source IPS in support of multi-OS platform binary software distributions.http://blogs.sun.com/SDNProgramNews/entry/image_packaging_system_ips_best Applying lessons learned- September 17, 2008 So I realized I was still making things too hard in my debugging efforts. I'm fighting the XDR encodedecode and not the syscall(). I.e., instead of reinstalling the nfsd kernel module, rebooting the server, and using MDB to debug, why don't I have a standalone I can use gdb on So I did that and I'm dumping in the same place: 0 $c kmdb_enter+0xb() debug_enter+0x37(fffffffffb937680) panicsys+0x3fd(fffffffffb930b08, ffffff0007ced268, fffffffffbc5f700, 1) vpanic+0x15d() panic+0x9c() die+0xd2(e,..http://blogs.sun.com/tdh/entry/applying_lessons_learned Get Virtual !- September 17, 2008 As I travel across the prairie many colleagues, partners and customers are becoming acutely aware and impressed that Sun is getting virtual with some cool solutions. And why it may be important to you in helping you to better manager your IT world with Sun Business Benefits: IT Cost Savings Business Agility Business Continuity Security and Regulatory Compliance Take a look see and get virtual with Sun ! As always, enjoy the journey . ..http://blogs.sun.com/NordicMan/entry/get_virtual GlassFish v2- September 17, 2008 917GlassFish v2 GlassFish v2 GlassFish v2SailFinGlassFish ESB , GlassFish prelude GlassFish v2http://blogs.sun.com/yosshi/entry/glassfish_v2%E3%81%AE%E8%AA%95%E7%94%9F%E6%97%A5 ISMIR Day 3 - Content based similarity and retrieval- September 17, 2008 Social Playlists and Bottleneck Measurements : Exploiting Musician Social Graphs Using Content-Based Dissimilarity and Pairwise Maximum Flow Values Ben Fields, Kurt Jacobson, Christophe Rhodes and Michael Casey Ben Field (dressed to kill) talks about his interesting work in looking at acoustic similarity and social networks. Motivation: There's a glass ceiling for content-based classification. Novelty: Don't always want 'similar' music. Novelty is important. Socialcultural awareness . Can..http://blogs.sun.com/plamere/entry/ismir_day_3_content_based Dimensions of Web Storage Scalability- September 17, 2008 Yesterday I blogged about DropBox, a new web storage company that makes it as easy as drag and drop to synchronize and backup files over the web. It is so easy to use I quickly used up my free 2 GB storage limit by backing up a few home movies and other files. I expect a paid service with more capacity will surface soon. SmugMug is another company that does a great job at getting people to pay for something, photo sharing over the web, that is available free from other sites. Why do people...http://blogs.sun.com/marchamilton/entry/dimensions_of_web_storage_scalability How to make simple 2 Player remote controlled Game using Sun Spot.- September 17, 2008 Hi. In my last blog I described how we can control a car using the Sun SPOTs. Here I will describe how we can make a silly 2 Player Game using Sun Spots and Basestation. What will we do.. Here we will build a simple 2-D Game that will have 9 X 9 Grid. There will be two Balls - Greeen and Red. The Movements of the balls in the grid will be controlled by Sun SPOTs! If the dots overlap, a message will be displayed. The goal of Green Dot is to catch the Red Dot!!(I know its...http://blogs.sun.com/jaysblog/entry/how_to_make_simple_21 Death Magnetic- September 17, 2008 At the time of writing, I am 56 years old and have only just started listening to Metallica. How they managed to pass me by in my earlier years is a mystery. Now I am enlightened - mainly thanks to my next-door neighbour Joel McIver. Joel is a best-selling author specializing in metal music and its sub-genres. And so it came to pass that on 12th September 2008, Metallica released their much awaited album entitled Death Magnetic here in the UK. I've listened to it a couple of times and I'm...http://blogs.sun.com/andky/entry/death_magnetic Customer Service is the New Marketing- September 17, 2008 First session of the day, "Customer Service is the New Marketing"Lane Becker, of Get Satisfaction, which seems at first glance very cool, is the speaker. Lane's pitch: Foster more satisfied, loyal customers by working less and spending less money. Sweet!Using the example of Zappos.com, aka "The holy grail of customer service" Lane walks us through why Zappos.com is going to sell over 1 billion in shoes and accessories this year: excellent customer service. The...http://blogs.sun.com/sdnblog/entry/customer_service_is_the_new |