RT @HPC_Guru: #Apple dumps Sun's #ZFS filesystem for Mac OS X. http://bit.ly/LXxet # MacOSX Forge "ZFS Project Shutdown – The ZFS project has been discontinued. The mailing list and repository will also be removed shortly." # #Apple #ZFS ppl have … Continue reading
Just found out that the #mtwilson observatory #stationfire reports are back on the original site! http://bit.ly/3cDFdA # Sounds promising from the reports on the #mtwilson website; also view from the now east-facing towercam is spectacular # A weekend of working … Continue reading
After a reboot today whilst installing KDE 4.3.1 I noticed the following messages in my kernel (2.6.31-rc8) logs (courtesy of the KDE file watcher that was following /var/log/kern.log): Sep 6 13:53:10 quad kernel: [ 142.842723] EXT4-fs error (device dm-7): ext4_mb_generate_buddy: … Continue reading
RT @elakdawalla India's Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter has been lost. http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00002072/ # Mount Wilson Observatory (near Pasedena, California) threatened by fire – http://bit.ly/3cDFdA # RT @elakdawalla 300-foot flames may get to Mt. Wilson in a couple of hours — firefighters may … Continue reading
Thanks to Chris Dagdigian on the Beowulf list for pointing out: It’s official: http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/oracle/index.jsp That link says: REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., April 20, 2009 — Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) and Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) announced today they have entered into a … Continue reading
Here’s something of a find, courtesy of Jordan Mendler on the ZFS/FUSE mailing list, an SMP implementation of bzip2 called pbzip2 by Jeff Gilchrist: PBZIP2 is a parallel implementation of the bzip2 block-sorting file compressor that uses pthreads and achieves … Continue reading
In July I was commissioned to write an article for LinuxWorld called “Emerging Linux Filesystems” which they published in early September in three parts. Part of the deal was that there was a 90 day exclusivity period for them before … Continue reading
Recently LinuxWorld commissioned me to write an article on Emerging Linux Filesystems (the formatting is a bit different from the original I sent, but the slideshow of graphs now works) and have kindly given me permission to present a talk … Continue reading
Now that Ubuntu Feisty (which will be version 7.04) has just entered beta I decided to take the plunge and upgrade my home machine to it – having done a full backup of all my data onto two different media … Continue reading
Here you can find my current software projects that I’m involved with or have an interest in. Myself and Brian May maintain a port of the Vacation program to Linux. I have a modified version of a script to migrate … Continue reading