OK, so we have two kids and they are now grown somewhat and attending the Tracy Learning Center in eight’ and sixth grade. So every March for the last couple of years, there is the big regional Science Olympiad. This year, it was last Saturday, March the 6th. But the big competition is only the… Read More »
I wanted to try Ucarp, the userland daemon to use the CARP protocol, to manage a virtual address for automatic failover between two MySQL hosts. The only problem was, I wanted to do that with Solaris shared-IP zones. They don’t really have complete (promiscuous mode) access to their IP interfaces. The interfaces are rather virtual… Read More »
Hello, I decided to move my blog from blogs.sun.com to my own hosting setup. All the posts below are migrated. I looked at them and tried to fix all the images and links. But there might still be some dangling ends. But most of the stuff is rather old anyhow. I hope I’ll find some… Read More »
I’m involved with the “Engineers without Borders” for allmost a year now. We are currently building an annex chapter of the San Francisco – Professional Chapter. A lot of nice, long names. What it really means is, that a group of Sun people work together to help. The rest is just organizational/logistical. We are trying… Read More »
I did not post here for a long time. One of the reasons was, that I was not really able to say too much about what we were trying to build. But now “Project Kenai” has made it to the public beta. So I can say that I was working on it for the last… Read More »
OK, this article is not really new any more. It took almost a year until I came across it. But it’s always interesting to see what your old school is doing. Especially when a (German) national paper is praising it very much. Here is a link to the "Die Welt" article titled "Germany’s Smartest Pupils".… Read More »
Maybe you have heared about it. There is the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative out there. Now it’s your chance to get one of the first models. For a limited time (today until Noveber 26.) you can pay $ 399 and get one of those nice pieces. But more importantly one additional laptop is… Read More »
For the weekend I joined Team Sun and 1600 other bicycle riders for the Northern California MS150 Bike Tour “Waves to Wine”. I did not know what I get into since this was my first participation in such a fund raising ride. But I must say, it was a lot of fun. I did not… Read More »
I ventured a bit into different languages lately. Over the last couple of days, I tried to install and run the mailing list manager Sympa on OpenSolaris and the CoolStack packages. Building the pieces were not a big problem. But the first problem I encountered, was the missing BerkeleyDB in the CoolStack packages. OK, BerkeleyDB… Read More »
I know, I should have spend my Saturday preparing for JavaONE and NetBeans Day. But instead I went to the Eco Live 2007 and listened to Dave Douglas and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. . Let’s say I thought I knew quite a bit about what’s going on, but Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s presentation was a… Read More »