timu_at_home

went there last night - two good presentations. beer/food…

• a tool to  display system configuration in a sort of graphical manner, it just proves that parsing unstable command line output is fraught with uncertainty - of course is there a stable way to do this ?
• a presentation on FUSE - File system in USErland .  which is a generic filesystem shim and a library  that talks to the shim and you implement all the vfsop type  function in userland eg read/write/stat/open/sync… you only need to implement the ones you need. The presentor had a “hello world” filesystem that had one file and you can guess its contents - took 20 lines of code. Its not fast but very useful… demo’ed ntfs on solaris.

losug

Virtualbox  installed like a dream on my linux eeepc.  I had problems with  opensolaris’s pkg command getting into a swapping frenzy due to only 512Mb memory  during a image-upgrade.. so down pcworld for a 2gb SODIMM for 30 pounds took 5 minutes to fit once I found an anti static wrist strap.

Now virtualbox can have 1gb and linux 1gb - all seems to work fine I now have a snv_101 image running after downloading the dvd image. I now have two widgets telling me the battery level ! networking just worked… once I installed the virtualbox client addons the windowing system even adjusted to the slightly odd eeepc resolution of 1024×600..