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The OpenSolaris Desktop Community forms from people right across the globe, from all cultures and all walks of life. If you would like your to get your blog added, email Glynn with details of your blog feed.

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30 Most Recent Blog Entries

alvaro Last month's summary
Jul 18, 1:27 AM
I haven't blogged for a couple of weeks now, so I'm going to try to briefly summarize what I should have written during these days. OpenSolaris Day 2008 : It has taken me a few more days of what I ...
bnitz Thanks to the organizers of GUADEC 2008!
Jul 15, 5:16 PM
Many thanks to the organizers, volunteers and Gnomers who helped make GUADEC 2008 possible! There were a few glitches (please open up SSL and VPN ports next time!), but overall it was a success. I ...
gheet GUADEC 2008 - My Impression and Experience
Jul 14, 6:27 AM
GUADEC 08 in Istanbul is the fourth GUADEC I have attended. My first GUADEC was in Dublin back in 2003. Second one is in Kristiansand, Norway in 2004. Third GAUDEC in Vilanova, Spain in 2006. I ...
calum Tab frenzy
Jul 11, 3:16 PM
Have to admit I cringe every time somebody adds tabs to an application. Not because I have anything against appropriate use of tabs (and I’ll reserve judgment on which of the recent additions are ...
calum Cruisin’
Jul 10, 4:06 PM
There probably aren’t many better places to have a beer and talk about GNOME, the universe and everything. (A handful of other photos of the evening on Flickr.)
gman The Zen of OpenSolaris
Jul 8, 5:32 PM
Come and see David Comay, among others, talk about OpenSolaris in SecondLife - join us at the Sun Campus , or the live stream on Wednesday 07:30 PT 9th July.
gman Missing out on the Fun
Jul 6, 11:18 PM
Unfortunately no GUADEC for me this year. Hope everyone going has an uberly awesome time. Can’t wait to see the belly dancing videos that come out of this year, and I’ll certainly miss catching up ...
calum T -1 day
Jul 5, 10:56 AM
Like many of you, I’m sorting myself out tonight to fly to what will be my seventh GUADEC in Istanbul tomorrow. (I’ll actually be there for two weeks, as my wife is flying out after the conference to ...
gheet GUADEC - Istanbul
Jul 3, 10:08 PM
I will be flying out to Istanbul on Sunday mid-day with the whole bunch of Sun people from Dublin. Should arrive late Sunday night. Stay in one of the recommended hotel, but do not have the details ...
gheet 13th Anniversary
Jun 28, 10:16 AM
That is 4745 days plus 4 days of the leap years (1996, 2000, 2004, 2008), Kathy and I married! We missed the previous 2 anniversaries because we arrived late in Hong Kong on the 28th June 2007 and my ...
gheet EEE PC at last
Jun 27, 8:34 AM
Since the launch EEE PC in late 2007, I have always wanted to get one. Somehow just didn't get down to buy it for various reason, the price I felt was too steep (300+ Euro) for EEEPC 700. So when the ...
gman OpenSolaris 2008.05 Development Updates
Jun 26, 5:08 PM
For those people who like living on the bleeding edge of development, you can now update your system to include the latest builds coming out of the OpenSolaris sausage factory . Alan has been posting ...
gman OpenSolaris meets pt.BR meets Octávio
Jun 23, 6:32 PM
Octávio Augusto wrote in to point us to a video that he made of the OpenSolaris experience “ Solaris e Windows são muito melhores que Linux ” - I think that means he likes it. Rocking, thanks Octávio!
bnitz Squandering solstice daylight
Jun 20, 7:07 PM
Light pollution is one of my pet peeves. For example, excessively bright and misdirected "security lights" illuminate some pole barns and gas stations to a level where dentistry and brain surgery ...
bnitz My OpenSolaris for Developers talk at the Irish Opensource Technology Conference
Jun 20, 5:19 PM
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 ...
gman OpenSolaris Planning Meeting Reminder
Jun 17, 8:11 PM
Tomorrow, Thursday 19th June at 2pm PT, Tim Cramer is hosting an OpenSolaris Planning Meeting to help plan the OpenSolaris 2008.11 release. We have a whole bunch of local freephone numbers for this ...
gman OpenSolaris Community Structure Thoughts
Jun 17, 2:00 PM
Like Jim , I figured I might as well post this on my blog. Over the last month and a half, the OGB have been pondering the current OpenSolaris community structure, and that laid out in the ...
bnitz Limiting ZFS RAM consumption on OpenSolaris 2008.05 laptop
Jun 16, 9:25 AM
After upgrading OpenSolaris 2008.05 to Nevada build 90, I noticed some performance degradation in my 1GB work laptop. When firefox was running with a few tabs open, the DTracetoolkit swapinfo.d ...
gman GNOME/X Jobs in Bangalore
Jun 15, 4:03 PM
Joe mailed me a couple of days ago saying that he’s hiring about 10 engineers for desktop sustaining in Bangalore (and, no doubt, time to do development if the queues are low). If you’re interested, ...
bnitz How to keep gam_server from doing too much
Jun 14, 4:01 PM
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 ...
calum Things to do on your day off #13671
Jun 13, 4:28 AM
Fun with Pixelblocks
calum Après Match 2008
Jun 12, 3:59 PM
If there’s one thing that always brightens up RTÉ’s coverage of the big fitba’ tournaments, it’s the Après Match team’s piss-takes of the Irish TV pundits, which are usually shown at the end of the ...
gman Post 2008.05 Vacation
Jun 11, 6:01 PM
It seems a blur since we were all at the Moscone center releasing OpenSolaris 2008.05 , and everything leading up to the big event. Jim has a great set of pictures from the event. Now the long slog ...
alvaro Administrating Remote Cherokee Servers
Jun 11, 7:21 AM
There is something about the Cherokee administration interface that have been generating the same question over and over again since we released the first version a few weeks ago: " How can I ...
alvaro Cherokee: Windows build
Jun 9, 8:51 AM
After a couple of days fixing a few minor bugs, I have got Cherokee (trunk) to build and work on Windows again! Of course, it does not use Cygwin or any other additional layer. To say the truth it ...
calum Rockstars and decadence
Jun 7, 8:30 AM
I started writing this as a comment on Andy’s post, but it ended up quite long so I decided to blog it instead From a user’s perspective, I’m inclined to agree—to put it bluntly, I can’t really ...
bnitz HDR Images with Qtpfsgui
May 23, 5:03 PM
I've been experimenting with tone mapping RAW images with the Qtpfsgui OpenSource tool. It's always difficult to get the sky and foreground things (like spring tree leaves or cherry blossoms) to be ...
bnitz Google streetview goes to Wisconsin
May 23, 3:57 PM
View Larger Map It looks like Google's GPS equipped cars actually visited Southeastern Wisconsin last summer, during some of the best weather Wisconsin has to offer. During one of the brightest days, ...
alvaro The South Pole strip
May 23, 4:58 AM
I would like to point you guys to a comic strip that I good friend of mine (and Cherokee contributor) has started publishing. It is called South Pole . Basically, it is a story around three main ...
alvaro The Cayac Project
May 22, 1:50 AM
I have just seen that the Cayac project guys have released its first set of packages.. which is great news! Cayac is a bundle of different web technologies that makes much easier to deploy your ...