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OpenSolaris Blogs

Lots of OpenSolaris community members are talking about Solaris and OpenSolaris in their blogs. We've been aggregating all of those we know about here. If you are blogging about OpenSolaris and would like to get your blog added to the collection, send mail to add-my-blog AT sun DOT com for consideration* with the following information: (1) your full name, (2) your OpenSolaris registration ID, (3) your blog's address, and (4) your blog's RSS/Atom feed.

OpenSolaris bloggers are using tagging extensively. You can find more OpenSolaris content using these tags, and you can apply them to your own blog entries and web pages too. Our tag is OpenSolaris on Technorati, del.icio.us, and Flickr. Even if you don't have a blog, you can use the OpenSolaris tag to categorize your bookmarks on del.icio.us.

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30 Most Recent Blog Entries

manyoso Better algorithm for QPainter::fillRect() with raster based painting
Sep 5, 10:46 AM
In my last blog I found out that Qt is being evil when using QPainter::eraseRect() with a QImage based textured brush. How evil? Well, calling QPainter::fillRect() with the same brush results in ...
darren ZFS Crypto Codereview starts today
Sep 5, 9:49 AM
Prelim codereview for the OpenSolaris ZFS Crypto project starts today (Friday 5th September 2008 at 1200 US/Pacific) and is scheduled to end on Friday 3rd October 2008 at 2359 US/Pacific. Comments ...
Taylor Kidd (Intel) Energy / Power measurement wish list
Sep 5, 9:34 AM
I got such a good response from my previous post, that I decided to pose another question to my select and invisible audience. If you could come up with a wish list, what power related measurements ...
Luca Morettoni Aggiornare OpenSolaris (seconda parte)
Sep 5, 6:12 AM
darren Using the Mercurial Forest extension for OpenSolaris onnv-gate
Sep 5, 5:18 AM
Some background This is really only relevant to those people doing development on the OpenSolaris onnv-gate that are inside Sun, but it since there is nothing private about it I'm posting it publicly ...
darren Auditing shell commands
Sep 5, 5:08 AM
Via OSnews I came across a IBM article on KornShell 93 command auditing . Even before reading the article I viewed it with some caution. Why ? because you can't actually trust the shell to do what I ...
jimgris New OpenSolaris Storage Summit Graphic
Sep 5, 4:31 AM
Nice new OpenSolaris Storage Summit graphic. Santa Clara, California. Sept 21, 2008. OpenSolaris Storage Community here . My blog seems to mess up the image, so see the full size graphic here .
webmink links for 2008-09-05
Sep 5, 3:06 AM
China uses new anti-trust law against Microsoft; IBM & Sony next The technology market in China gets more an more interesting by the day. They have long been tuning western trade practices (patents ...
yongsun 听往事如风
Sep 5, 3:02 AM
是在Easy Morning上听到小娟的，配乐简单，歌声也很干净无雕琢，属于随心而发、都市民谣的类型。浅吟低唱，我最爱的是陈升。小娟也有翻唱陈升的歌，完全不同的感觉。推荐大家找来听听看。 这是他们的blog， http://blog.sina.com.cn/xiaojuan1234321music
Miroslav Kopecky Second Live - first look
Sep 5, 1:46 AM
L o t of us may still have a question: What is it ? Second Life is a 3-D virtual world created by its Residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited ...
reiko エネルギーは貯めるより作る (Energy to be generated, not to be saved)
Sep 5, 1:30 AM
今日は久しぶりにつれづれ日記。このごろ、エネルギー不足だったんですよ。なんでかなぁ。暑くて体調悪いからかしら、それとも、ストレスのせいかしら...と考えて、早めに寝たり気分転換に趣味に走ったりしていましたが、いまいち効果を感じられず。でも、だんだん元気が出てきましたの。さて、どうしてでしょう ? ...
yongsun scim packages are available on pkg.opensolaris.org
Sep 5, 1:16 AM
Just enjoy it pkg:/SUNWscim-anthy-AT-1.2-DOT-4,5.11-DOT-0.96:20080825T192330Z Info Manifest pkg:/SUNWscim-chewing-AT-0.3-DOT-1,5.11-0.96:20080825T192330Z Info Manifest ...
dclarke "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" by Wil Wheaton
Sep 4, 10:07 PM
    Wil Wheaton's book “The Happiest Days of Our Lives” arrived today and I was quick to cut open the package and flip into it.     He autographed it for me.     Right there on the title page, big ...
akihito Mashup Awards 4: Casual Session
Sep 4, 9:32 PM
一昨日、Mashup Awards 4 のCasual Sessionを開催し、Mashup コミュニティの方々と会話させてもらいました。まだ写真をFlickrにupできていませんが、色々なFeedbackもあり有意義な会合でした。参加頂いたみなさま、ありがとうございました。 ...
katakai vi plugin updated for NetBeans 6.5
Sep 4, 5:23 PM
I found that jVi plugin has been updated for NetBeans 6.5. Try this plugin if you're using NetBeans 6.5 dev build. It's still development release, version 1.2.0.x9 but it's pretty good. jVi - vi ...
katakai jVi プラグインが NetBeans 6.5 に対応
Sep 4, 5:07 PM
jVi プラグインが NetBeans 6.5 に対応していました。NetBeans 6.5 の開発ビルドを使っている方はインストールして使ってみてください。 バージョンは 1.2.0.x9 でまだ開発版ですがなかなか快適です。 jVi - vi editor clone NetBeans 6.5 用のモジュールは 1.2-NB6.5 です。 ひとつ注意ですが NetBeans 6.5 Beta ...
timc Building GCC 4.x on Solaris
Sep 4, 3:46 PM
I needed to build GCC 4.3.1 for my x86 system running a recent development build of Solaris. I thought I would share what I discovered, and then improved on. I started with Paul Beach's Blog on the ...
bobp Sun Tech Days 2008-2009 coming to you
Sep 4, 3:24 PM
Once again we are kicking off our yearly worldwide developer conference for 2008-2009 .  We are coming to you, the developers, in 13 countries across 4 continents this year.  Netbeans , OpenSolaris , ...
Jeff Cheeney OpenSolaris Storage - no more white shoes
Sep 4, 1:46 PM
Traditions - an inherited, established, or customary pattern of thought, action, or behavior . There are all kinds of traditions in families, cultures, religions and even companies. Some of my ...
nico The compromise on abortion that the Republican mavericks should offer
Sep 4, 1:36 PM
I don't like blogging about politics. My previous blog entry was the only one I've written on politics, and that was about international geopolitics. But Sarah Palin inspires me. The culture wars in ...
Terri Wischmann Register Now - OpenSolaris Storage Summit 2008!
Sep 4, 11:13 AM
OpenSolaris Storage Summit The date for the OpenSolaris Storage Summit has been set. We will be hosting the event at the Santa Clara Hyatt Regency hotel on the 21st of September, 2008. This is right ...
David Stewart (Intel) The Mighty Guys of Power
Sep 4, 11:08 AM
More from Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Fall 2008 This photo makes me smile in a couple of ways: This is a booth at the Demo Showcase at the most recent IDF, from one of our fantastic ...
Clay Breshears (Intel) Why I will never own an electronic book
Sep 4, 9:43 AM
Products like the Kindle from Amazon.com and Sony Reader are becoming more readily available, cheaper and more popular. I will never buy one and if you gave me one as a gift I would likely prop up a ...
jimgris Baggy Pants and Slippers
Sep 4, 8:09 AM
I met this construction worker on a train one day a while back, and I still can't get over his baggy pants and slippers. He's got a hard hat and some other tools in his bag, but the pants and ...
Joshua Painter (Intel) A Vision for Scalable High Quality Health Information Exchange - Part 3
Sep 4, 7:59 AM
This is the third of a three-part article looking at the area of interoperability and health information exchange (HIE) in the healthcare industry. In the first part, I intended to clearly articulate ...
Tirthankar OHAC Logo
Sep 4, 7:34 AM
The OHAC community is more than a year old and we still do not have a logo . There are some advantages of not having one. Well you can put almost anything. The freedom to choose the presentation ...
jimgris American Reporters Seeking India?
Sep 4, 2:38 AM
Journalist seeking paycheck? Try India : "India is a fascinating country where history is being made in many respects so it is a fertile place for good journalism. Hopefully some of the non-Indian ...
Luca Morettoni Inside zones...
Sep 4, 2:18 AM
sasanuma MacBook AirでOpenSolaris
Sep 4, 1:45 AM
MacBook AirにネイティブでOpenSolarisを動かすことができました。内蔵キーボード、オーディオ、ビデオは追加のセットアップをせずに動作します。内蔵WiFiやCompizは追加設定で動作します。( English ) 必要なもの MacBook Air SuperDrive OpenSolaris 2008.11 Development Builds or later 注 : ...
sasanuma OpenSolaris on MacBook Air
Sep 4, 1:45 AM
I succeeded to run native OpenSolaris on MacBook Air. The built-in keyboard, audio and video work fine without any additional setup. You can also use the built-in WiFi and Compiz with some ...