After OSCON ended, I went to the Oregon Brewers Festival on Friday afternoon. This is the first time I have gone after living in Portland for five years and loving beer. I rode my bike downtown; they had guarded bike parking. The cost was $4 for the mug, $1 for tokens which [...]
On Friday, I made it to the morning keynotes. None of them were really informative but were entertaining and funny.
I attended ZFS: Bringing Terabytes Under Control by Jay Edwards. He mainly talked about using ZFS on Solaris for large storage systems. The biggest advantage of ZFS is the nice management tools for [...]
After staying up late on Wednesday night, I slept late on Thursday and missed the keynotes. I went to Matt Tucker’s talk on Jingle: Cutting Edge Open Source VoIP describing the Jingle extension to Jabber that allows voice chat and other multimedia. Jingle is the standardization of the Google Talk protocol for voice [...]
In the afternoon, I went to more OSCON sessions. First, I went to Nested Data Parallelism in Haskell by Simon Peyton-Jones, the same guy who gave the keynote talk I went to. This time, he was talking about extending the Haskell compiler to do data parallelism. Flat data parallelism is when a [...]
I am going to the OSCON sessions today and the rest of the week. I missed most of the keynotes this morning. I did Transactional Memory for Concurrent Programming by Simon Peyton-Jones and Haskell guy at Microsoft. He described the idea of transaction memory as the alternative to locking for concurrent programming. [...]
My coworkers and I have gotten addicated to Starcraft again. The question is how to run it since my only computers are Linux and Mac.
Starcraft under Wine on Linux works pretty well. There are some issues with the display changing resolution that makes it hard to switch back to the desktop and resizes [...]
On Saturday, I bought a new grill in preparation for my annual party on Wednesday. I was tired of the using the old charcoal grill that I inherited with my apartment. It was pain clean out the old ashes, a pain to light the charcoal even with a chimney starter, a pain to [...]