I have some data that I need to come up with a way to graph. I’m using the Light Pollution from Thüringer Landessternwarte, Tautenburg, Germany and our friends at Kuffner-Observatory, Vienna, Austria. I have this unit hooked up to take a reading every second. It records the temperature, and data from three light meters, one […]
Recently my Manager started blogging. Despite my initial cynicism it’s actually turning out to be a pretty good blog, and the comments are great. Communication about patches is an area that Sun could improve in. What they are, how they are created, how they can be installed, when they can be installed, and when and
Live Upgrade is a feature of Solaris that lets you create alternate boot environments. This makes it easy to switch between OS builds at boot time, but also make upgrading much easier, less risky, and quicker. This extends to patching too. I recently received a query from a customer asking how we ensure that
James A. Van Allen died yesterday age 91. Van Allen made the first great discovery of the space age, with his instruments on the very first american spacecraft, Explorer 1. The largest Earthly “object”, the Van Allen radiation belt, is named after him. http://history.nasa.gov/sputnik/vanallen.html It sad to see one of the last great space age