The remote control handset for Sky’s Digibox gave up to day, I wonder if this is the opportunity I have been looking for to change the way we get our TV. …
My Alienware
My Alienware is still not very well. I need to get it fixed before Danny comes home. …
Laptop Diary XI
Originally entitled “Goodbye to dial boot” and stating that, a month and a half ago, Sun & Innotek, the authors of Virtual Box, an open source desktop virtualisation solution announced that Sun was buying them. Virtual Box is a free type II virtualisation solution …
A second chance for twitter
I decided to give twitter another go and wrote a personal manifesto about my planned use on my sun/oracle blog. The article is interesting for the constraints and twitter’s obvious optimisation for the pre-smart phone mobile. Less interesting for its pompousness. …
Dave’s European Trip
I undertook a European trip, visiting Sun staff in Sweden and Italy. I posted a travelogue style couple of blogs in my sun/oracle blog some of which I reposted here in July 2016. I report on my travel experiences, lingering too long on the airports. I also reflect on some aspects of doing business in Italy. …
Transforming my Garden, a picture blog
In the autumn of 2006, I decided to rebuild my garden, here’s the slide show from flickr; it uses adobe flash. …
Ground Forcing the Garden
In the autumn of 2006, I decided to have my garden done over. …
Building a Yahoo MapApp
This article is a pointer to my original one on the sun/oracle blog. I wrote up how to build a Yahoo maps application. The idea was to build a map showing the approximate location of members of a group for the purposes of planning meetings. The date should be noted and that using Yahoo didn’t seem that odd at the time; it’s been replaced in market and mind share as the programmatic map application by google and privacy implications are much higher. This item is as much a technology diary as anything else.
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Originally posted on my sun/oracle blog, republished here in April 2016, the screenshots are missing from both, if I wish to restore them, I’ll need to put them on the wiki. …
Back to SFO
I returned to San Francisco for a Data Center Ambassador’s Conference. …
Throughput Computing
In February 2016, I undertook an exercise to copy as many as made sense, of my original blog articles across from the oracle site to my/this wordpress blog. This article represents the highlights of the original record of my day. The Oracle blog has now gone, as have the all the pointers to Sun resources, including the presentations. I rescued and rehosted Andy Ingram’s, Workload based Systems Design 2005 which I have rescued and reposted because it was important then and remains so today, well maybe, maybe not in 2019.
Sun finally launched it’s chip multi-threading systems, promising a revolution in throughput and cheaper MIPS/Watt. This was done at a synchronous event in New York & London with a webcast for those who couldn’t make it in person. Jonathan Schwarz travelled to London to speak to his European customers, as did I. I recorded this on my sun oracle blog in several articles. …