Easier OS abstraction
Trying to update boot menus that employ odd chain loading schemes (such as Xen) with scripts is just asking for trouble. Nothing against the automatic tools that exist and do this, they just weren’t written with hypervisors and other kinds of microkernels in mind. Switching gears effortlessly and without error is paramount these days, especially [...]
The cost of brain picking
I’ve been conversing with someone who was interested in one of the free software projects that I’m managing. I spent no less than 15 hours explaining (in detail) what we’re planning, how its structured and how he could adopt it for his business. I also mentioned that the next release was 3 months away. The [...]
Helen, Spartan and Sensibility
While reading freshmeat, I stumbled across an emerging operating system named HelenOS. HelenOS (after Helen of Troy) is a new operating system based on a preemptible micro kernel (Spartan) that has some really neat features. You thought microkernels were dead? Read on. Helen boots on pretty much every major architecture (even Xen friendly!). Its being [...]
Regarding my php ‘hgwebdir’
A few people have e-mailed me asking about this PHP version of Mercurial’s `hgwebdir’. There is absolutely nothing special about it, it was thrown together with simple PHP to read */.hg/hgrc and simplepie to pull and cache the RSS commitment logs. The only reason it exists is so that I could pull the repo directory [...]
A week with WordPress 2.5
I’ve been eagerly awaiting the release of WordPress 2.5. I’ve been using it for a week now, I’m really impressed. In case you did not notice, Echoreply does not use WordPress in a `typical’ manner. When I started Echoreply, all pages were static. Later, after making many (many) pages I finally broke down and installed [...]
Xguests (final?) released
I’ve finally gotten around to properizing the Xen version of my XMLPulse tool. Its been re-named to Xguests and is available for testing. There’s a bunch of changes, I took out almost as much as I added. The biggest change is Dom-0 /proc information is no longer part of the tool, its only for quick [...]
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