http://system-log.tyr.org.uk Skyscraper I love you Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:21:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 'Your Next Bus' is the system used in West Yorkshire (and other regions) to provide live bus timetables. Some time ago I wrote a Dashboard Widget to display live timetables on a OS X Dashboard. I had a request to develop this for the iPhone and so I knocked something ... http://system-log.tyr.org.uk/2008/08/05/your-next-bus-on-your-iphone/ I'm writing some training documentation for Veritas Cluster Server (VCS). Reading through my notes I was reminded of the 'VCS Simulator'. You can import an existing cluster config into the Simulator and use the (Windows) GUI as if it was a live cluster, changing the config, faling things over etc. ... http://system-log.tyr.org.uk/2008/07/09/vcs-simulator/ I've been wanting to have a play around with both the Solaris Cluster Express work that's coming out of OpenSolaris and also VirtualBox, a virtualization platform that Sun recently acquired and have moved under their xVM banner. So wanting to kill two birds with one stone I thought I'd try ... http://system-log.tyr.org.uk/2008/06/27/building-a-solaris-cluster-express-cluster-in-a-virtualbox-on-opensolaris/ VMware Fusion 2.0 Beta is out. It's a free upgrade for all current VMware Fusion users. Notable updates include Multiple Monitor support and Direct-X 9 Shader Model 2. To give the Shader Model 2 a whirl I fired up Half Life 2. It had refused to run in any previous VMware Fusion ... http://system-log.tyr.org.uk/2008/05/06/vmware-fusion-20-beta-half-life-2/ Recently I posted about installing Solaris Express on a Mac Pro. This morning OpenSolaris was released, the first release of what was Project Indiana. Prior to this release the outputs of the various OpenSolaris projects were available within Solaris Express, however now they have their own distribution which has several ... http://system-log.tyr.org.uk/2008/05/06/opensolaris-200805-on-mac-pro/ I'm on the train! Finally WiFi is free in standard class on the east coast mainline. So that's at least one thing National Express have done right so far. I'd always assumed that the train WiFi was supported by a 3G network, or something similar. However my outbound IP address is ... http://system-log.tyr.org.uk/2008/04/15/national-express-wifi-is-satellite-based/ In the March 8th edition of The Economist this article appeared about Wikipedia. This section piqued my interest Mr Lih and other inclusionists worry that [the current Wikipedia administration and bureaucracy] deters people from contributing to Wikipedia, and that the welcoming environment of Wikipedia's early days is giving way to hostility ... http://system-log.tyr.org.uk/2008/04/03/wikivitals-unofficial-wikipedia-statistics/ Perhaps not the most successful turn of the holiday http://system-log.tyr.org.uk/2008/03/25/going-the-fast-way-down-at-arcalis/ For me one of the most interesting aspects of the modern internet (Web 2.0, if you like) is the high availability and feature depth of APIs that websites make available to enable integration into a variety of systems. These range across the whole spectrum of websites from flickr to BetFair. One ... http://system-log.tyr.org.uk/2008/03/20/what-facebook-applications-know-about-you/ A while ago I showed how I upgraded my Solaris Express system using Live Upgrade. Now it's time to upgrade again. This time we do it a bit differently as a boot environment for the upgrade is already available. Read on for the full story. First a recap of the current ... http://system-log.tyr.org.uk/2008/03/03/solaris-express-live-upgrade-part-2/