http://courtneymalone.com If it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet. Fri, 22 May 2009 23:49:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en (relevant links included) [12:42:54] Phil: Man, I fell asleep to this lecture by Charles Bailyn [12:43:14] Phil: And I had a dream that he was actually Bill Mayes and he was trying to sell me WIMPs [12:43:33] Courtney: BILLY MAYS HERE ... http://courtneymalone.com/2009/05/22/a-brief-nerd-interlude/ Making this a short post. I’m back from Washington after attending the Inauguration, and I have to say it was a great experience despite not getting very close. Spending 40+ hours on a bus sucked though. Photos are being added to the gallery slowly. I will add more as ... http://courtneymalone.com/2009/01/23/inauguration-day/  Just a note that as of build 88, zfs booting is integrated into Solaris Nevada . While OpenSolaris (Project Indiana), has had zfs booting for a while, It was previously only available in Nevada by setting up a jumpstart server and doing a netinstall. As it stands, you will ... http://courtneymalone.com/2008/07/30/zfs-bootroot-is-here/ So I spent the Thursday through Saturday in Austin for the state Democratic convention. My alternate (Paul Gomez) and I got to Austin at about 4pm Thursday and checked into our hotel. Thanks to my usual procrastination, I had booked the room at the last minute and the only place ... http://courtneymalone.com/2008/06/10/texas-state-democratic-convention/ Dumped some photos into the gallery Update 3/5 1:45pm - Apparently Denton county had a number of issues with delegate counts, I just got off the phone with our Chair, Gary, who said that our precinct was actually an exception in that we got nearly the right number of allotted ... http://courtneymalone.com/2008/03/04/texas-primary-day-semi-live-blog/ Short post - Went to the Collin county Precinct Captain training for the Obama campaign tonight. Organizers were expecting ~200 people, but more than 450 showed up... and this is in a largely Republican county (indeed a number of people raised their hands when asked if there were any Republicans ... http://courtneymalone.com/2008/02/17/yes-we-can/ The horrorI was watching Law & Order: Special Victims Unit the other day when a giant ad popped up for The Bourne Ultimatum. This thing takes up a third of the screen and they actually did it twice in the same episode! Is this the networks' new advertising strategy? I'm ... http://courtneymalone.com/2007/12/08/is-this-their-big-plan/ At the local OpenSolaris User's Group meeting a few months back, one of the presenters asked a a fairly innocuous question to the gathered group of users: "How many of you use live upgrade?". Of the gathered people present (mostly professional sysadmins), I was the only one who raised ... http://courtneymalone.com/2007/12/01/solaris-liveupgrade/ I was really looking forward to the Zunesoftware update. Instead of getting a bevy of well integrated new features, I got a list of gripes. 1) Can't install the software. After the Zune 1.3 software found and downloaded the update, I launched it and the progress bar goes to 100% only to ... http://courtneymalone.com/2007/11/14/the-zune-20-software-is-not-so-good/ Most unexpected So far I have been pleasantly surprised with my Vista install, a few things needed upgrading but no show stoppers. At least not until I copied a file from the media center machine. I was getting only a few mb/s despite the fact that both machines are connected ... http://courtneymalone.com/2007/08/28/a-note-on-vista-network-speed/