An Englishman's forecast of applications on the cloud:

Dull and drizzly.

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Sun - Week Twenty

Monday starts off quietly, with fewer tickets than I expected…I progressed a little with some gDoc code, you can now call up the GUI form the command line with some arguments and the app with automagically search for those words.

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Nifty keyboard shortcuts on SunRay's

At work, our department has it’s own SunRay servers. I am currently running on a V890 server running build 101a of Nevada and running the SRSS 4.1 (SunRay Server Software (I think)).

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Sun - Week Nineteen

After spending most of Sunday cooking meals for the following two weeks, I came in to find that it was fairly quiet. I spent Monday looking at some disk drives, in meetings and looking at gDoc. I also looked at the ticket with the Neptune card. I now needed to put two systems back to back, I corresponded with the engineer to book another system.

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Sun - Week Eighteen

Monday was spent travelling back from Aber, I arrived back in Camberley at just past midnight

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One year on...

Well, it’s my second ‘one year’ celebration in a matter of days!

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Sun - Week Seventeen & week with Faye

I only spent one and a half days in work this week! Monday was spent doing some work, while Tuesday morning was spent tying up loose ends and passing other people ongoing work.

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OpenSolaris & CS101

On Thursday 30th October, I attended the CS101 lecture in Aber uni. I was there to give a brief talk about OpenSolaris, focusing on aspects like Zones, DTrace and ZFS. I think it went OK, possibly pitched it a tad too high, and I missed out tonnes of stuff I wanted to put in, like the copy on write feature of ZFS…

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Sun - Week Sixteen

OK, writing this from the future, I can’t remember the details of this week…

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Sun - Week Fifteen

The small things

Monday morning started with the subtitle. I saw a pigeon fall from the sky, frantically flapping it’s wings causing some leaves to scatter, it made me smile. This week I shall try to look for the small things that make me smile, and report them here with the rest of my news.

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