ASCII Art Forever !

James Dickens just posted a funny "vi" upgrade picture and I remembered that many years ago I came across a Star Wars Episode IV in ASCII. Yes, the movie in ASCII Art ! You were to telnet to some host and it was then played on your terminal. So I google for it "ASCII Star Wars" and it immediately showed me a modern (aka Java, aka Web-friendly) version of this masterpiece.

So, here it comes - http://www.asciimation.co.nz/

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Storage Community went live !

Woo-hoo, opensolaris.org Storage Community just went live as well the sources of NWS consolidation !

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Rainy evening at Murphy's

It was rainy yesterday evening, but it didn't stop us - John Plocher, Leon Koll and myself - from getting together at Murphy's pub in Herzelia marina. Place was quite crowded - people were gathering there to watch the basketball game later that evening on the big screens around the pub. So we had to wait some time while the staff were figuring out where to sit us. The good thing is that we've got the first round of beer on house for standing patiently :) Too bad Leon showed up a little later and missed that.

Anyway, if you ask me - pub is one of the best places to have good technical talk :)

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SXCR B30 is out finally

SXCR build 30 just hit the SDLC. It adds quite a number of new packages

system      SUNWatheros     Atheros 802.11b/g Wireless NIC Driver
application SUNWcacaort     Cacao Component
system      SUNWdvdrw       DVD creation utilities
system      SUNWdvdrwS      DVD creation utilities (source)
JAI         SUNWjai         Java Advanced Imaging
JAI         SUNWjai-imageio Java Advanced Imaging Image I/O Tools
application SUNWjdmk-base   Java DMK 5.1 minimal subset
system      SUNWlibusbS     libusb (source)
system      SUNWlibusbugenS libusbugen plugin (source)
system      SUNWmpapi       SNIA Multipath Management API Common Library
system      SUNWmpapir      SNIA Multipath Management API Common Library (Root)
system      SUNWmpathadm    Solaris Multipathing CLI
system      SUNWmpathadmr   Solaris Multipathing CLI (Root)
system      SUNWmpsvplr     Sun MP API library for the scsi_vhci driver (Root)
application SUNWsoagm       GNOME Menu Integration for the StarSuite Office Productivity Suite
application SUNWsoam        StarSuite Office Productivity Suite for Solaris
application SUNWsogm        GNOME Menu Integration for the StarOffice Office Productivity Suite
application SUNWsom         StarOffice Office Productivity Suite for Solaris
system      SUNWwlanr       wifi config tool
system      SUNWwlanu       wifi config tool