What I wanted to Post last time .. but didn't feel like it

So, it’s been a little while since my last post . .here’s what has happened in my life

Friday 10/15 – Wera National Endurance Series Final (Honk Bo Bo racing finished 10^th in Class)

With approximately 1 lap left in the race, I decided to get up close and personal with a tire wall in turn 5.

-Busted chin, bruised hip, possible broken finger, possible broken collor bone

FYI, Xrays came back AOK, better safe then sorry.

Saturday 10/16 – John Shank’s wedding. (Congrats)

Missed the Friday rehearsal (getting xrays of my collor bone); and basically had to wing it.

Sunday 10/17 – Took my bruised and exhausted ass back to the race track to support my friends, and see some good ‘ol racin’.

Daniel got his Imac

Yeah . .so umm..I was out on friday when it came in . . .(i had a race, to be blogged later)
http://yeahnotreally.blogspot.com/2004/10/my-imac.html

Frustration

My morning is just underway and already I feel like a runaway Bus going off a cliff.
1. I over slept about 1.5hrs this morning . .i just could Not get out of bed.
2. Once I finally came to, I releized. .ohh yeah, I forgot to wash clothes last night
3. I reliezed that the clothes I washed a few days ago where still in the washer = Mildew "YAY"
4. Lovely 30 mile commute in Atlanta traffic.
5. Once I get to work I found out that I am being shuffled to a new cube
6. This new cube is at the end of a hightraffic walkway!!
7. I never ate breakfast this morning, and am $.10 shy of anything decent in the snackmachine.

Which Windows Manager??

So, I'm the type of person that gets bored with the same 'ol same 'ol all the time. I've been an avid use of FVWM for quite some time now. I've spend endless hours on my .fvwmrc files and customized my desktops until nothing remained untouched.

Why after all that. .would I possibly start using Gnome again? Your guess is as good as mine, but it happend.

Might it be possible that using gnome on my solaris laptop helped ease the migration, or could it be the ease in which i can emerge new apps in Gentoo . ?. ?...

Anywho, It has been a long long time since I have really, seriously, honestly used Gnome, and they have made leaps and bounds.

Wow. .. .that's all I've got. I'm completly spent, I can think of nothing else to talk about.... . .so .. ummm . . .

if (Solaris 10 == 2nd Coming of Jesus) {printf("Amen!");}

Wow, is about all I can say.

I have been a hardcore Linux user for 8+ years, and have dabbled in an out with Solaris as my jobs have required. A few months ago I grabbed a copy of Solaris 9 x86 and started playing around.. . .not a few weeks after that I thought "what the hell" and put a copy of Solaris 10 beta on my laptop.

I am not one of those people that preach one way or the other for BSD, Solaris, Linux, etc, etc. . I see all of their strengths, and weaknesses. They are all Great OS's and have their purpose.

Lately I have been testing out some of the new features in 10, and have been quite impressed.

N1 Grid Containers - rocks. Much the same as when I would set up virtual servers in Linux, but appears to be a little more solid. I have purposely crashed my test Zones on several occasions, and am pleased to say the Global Zone has never winced once. Ohh, and in my opinion setting up a Zone in Solaris 10 is easier then a virtual server, or even a chroot environment in Linux.

ZFS - wow, an amazing advance in file systems and storage. I have not played much with it yet, but the implications are almost endless.

Dtrace - take truss or strace pump it up on steroids, throw in a little C syntax and there you are. I'm still going through the guide on this. .but it has been pretty easy to pick up, and I have been impressed with the potential for this new tool.

http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/817-6223

Janus - Nice, nice. .I have had little problem so far. I mostly compile all most apps locally on each box, for what every architecture it's using. But. .it's nice if you don't need to as well ;) Some ideas I have read about are using an N1 zone to run a completely functioning Linux env inside Solaris. Or just run Linux apps side by side your Solaris native stuff ...your choice.

In the beganing

Yeah, so . .everyone else has a blog, I might as well too.
This is just the first of many boring Posts