02 Jul · Thu 2009
Two years ago today....
Home, sweet home. Love it!
25 Jun · Thu 2009
Late feature addition - to the KCA speaker list
Brendan Gregg, member of the Fishworks team, author of the DTraceToolkit, co-author of Solaris Performance and Tools.
Naturally, he'll be talking about DTrace and all the serious and crazy (and seriously crazy) things he's done with it over the years.
| Dates | 15 - 17 July, 2009 |
| Venue | Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland |
| Conference homepage | http://au.sun.com/sunnews/events/2009/kernel |
| Full abstracts | http://wikis.sun.com/display/KCA2009/KCA2009+Conference+Agenda |
| Registration page | https://www.conveneit.com/secure/sun/kernel_jul_09 |
| Pricing: | Students | $95 | regular price | $300 |
11 Jun · Thu 2009
Kernel Conference Australia - earlybird price closes *TOMORROW*
If you're interested in any of these areas:
- linux kernel crypto services
- ZFS deduplication
- cross-architecture OS and driver porting
- packet filtering and QOS
- TCP/IP protocol security
- bug finding tools for OpenSource Operating Systems
- network virtualisation, or
- how a DB engine can really hurt your system
then Kernel Conference Australia is definitely for you.
Dates: 15 - 17 July, 2009
Venue: Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland
The student price is still $95, too.
For full abstracts please see http://wikis.sun.com/display/KCA2009/KCA2009+Conference+Agenda
For the conference homepage, see http://au.sun.com/sunnews/events/2009/kernel/
And for registration, Go Without Delay To
https://www.conveneit.com/secure/sun/kernel_jul_09/
I look forward to seeing you there.
08 Jun · Mon 2009
First ride up Mt Coot-tha!
Haven't been out on the bike since the May Day long weekend (when I also rode with Tim, but along the river into town and back), so my lack of fitness really showed going up the first bit past the quarry. However, what really killed me were my sinuses - dripping taplike and not letting me get enough air in. Had to walk the last 1.5km to the ABC compound, but at least I kept moving. From there it was a really nice undulation around to the summit proper, and then a bit of speed heading back down.
Haven't gone quite that fast on the bike before, and I was a little nervous, not knowing the turns or the road surface. I'll enjoy it a lot more next time we ride it.
All up we were gone for 3 hours, going to have to work on shortening that time over the next 6-9 months so that when next year's Bike Week comes around I can do the Coottha Challenge.
A great ride, and a grand day for it.
24 May · Sun 2009
KCA2009 - earlybird registrations close in 1 week!
As a quick reminder, in addition to our excellent keynote speakers Jeff Bonwick, Bill Moore and Max Alt, here are the people who you'll be able to meet, listen and learn from at KCA:
| Fernando Gont | Results of a Security Assessment of Common Implementation Strategies of the TCP and IP Protocols |
| Henning Brauer (OpenBSD) | Faster Packets: Performance Tuning in the OpenBSD Network Stack and PF |
| Gavin Maltby (Sun Microsystems) | Hardware & Software Fault Management Architecture |
| Pawel Dawidek (FreeBSD) | GEOM - The FreeBSD way of handling storage |
| John Sonnenschein (Sun Microsystems) | Driver and Filesystem Development with the Solaris and OpenSolaris DDI/DKI |
| David Gwynne (University of Queensland) | MCLGETI: Effective Network Livelock Mitigation and More |
| Cristina Cifuentes (Sun Microsystems) | Finding Bugs in Open Source Kernels Using Parfait |
| Sherry Moore (Sun Microsystems) | Fast reboot support (and more) for OpenSolaris |
| Max Bruning (Bruning Systems) | Porting USB HID Device Drivers Between Linux and OpenSolaris |
| James Morris (Red Hat) | Linux Kernel Security Overview |
| Percy Pari-Salas (Bond University) | Automated Testing of OpenSolaris |
| Vivek Joshi (Sun Microsystems) | Porting OpenSolaris across architectures |
| Jayakara Kini (Sun Microsystems) | Crossbow for OpenSolaris Developers |
| Garrett D'Amore (Sun Microsystems) | Boomer: the new OpenSolaris audio system |
| Pramod Batni (Sun Microsystems) | Debugging and Diagnosing Interesting Kernel Problems |
| Stewart Smith (Sun Microsystems) | (Ab)use the Kernel: what a database server can do to your kernel |
So what are you waiting for? Hurry up and register!
20 May · Wed 2009
Yeah, we ain't suffering from drought here....
That's just the tail end of it. I've had to empty water from our pool three times in the last 12 hours, and I'm really hoping we're close to the end of this current rain cell:
That's since 9am today!
12 May · Tue 2009
KCA2009 - registrations are NOW LIVE (also, agenda posted)
10 May · Sun 2009
Happy Mother's Day
This year, however, we have a beautiful daughter and a reason to celebrate Mother's Day.
Happy Mother's Day, J!
Now if we could only get a bit more sleep .......
06 May · Wed 2009
KCA2009 - we've finalised the accepted presentations
04 May · Mon 2009
KCA2009 - Call for Papers is now CLOSED
We've had a great response to the CfP, and the review committee will be meeting in coming days to nut out just which presentations we'll take.
Personally, I'm very happy that given the event is new, and economies around the world are in turmoil, we've had so many presentation proposals (and of a very high quality) submitted.
The review committee will be working hard to ensure that we get the accepted papers finalised as soon as possible, but either way we've still got enough of the schedule mapped out already (keynote speakers and panels) that when registrations open on Monday you'll have a fair idea of how it'll all go.
If you are planning to register and attend, please join our Facebook Event.
27 Apr · Mon 2009
Less than ONE WEEK to go for KCA2009's Call for Papers
That's THIS FRIDAY!
If you're going to submit a presentation proposal, please get it in as soon as possible - you don't want to miss out on being part of this conference.
Here are the links, just link case you'd misplaced them:
Official Conference Website
Call for Papers (all pretty)
Call for Papers (original, dry and technical)
The Facebook event
If you're a potential sponsor, please contact myself, Claire or Gabriele (details on the Official Conference Website).
I've also put together a flyer which you could print out and post around your workplace. Please do - the more the merrier!
Don't forget, registrations open in one week, on 4 May 2009. Save The Date
27 Mar · Fri 2009
KCA2009 - event website NOW ACTIVE
23 Mar · Mon 2009
no really, I *do* need jdbc!
SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw exception java.lang.IllegalStateException: Roller Weblogger has not been bootstrapped yet
I saw loads of messages in forum posts about this, several of which said something like "oh, figured it out, our db was down, all good now." Which was great, except I could confirm very easily that my db backend was up, I could connect to it using the appropriate dbname, username and password. I tried switching from my own tomcat instance to the integrated version - no joy. I tried deploying roller using a WAR rather than unpacked - still no joy. Checked and re-checked my roller-custom.properties, but it was all to no avail.
Eventually I re-read the instructions and something clicked - I should check the jdbc jar files. Well lookee here, that'll be the problem! My snv_106 instance had a symlink for the postgresql.jar file, and that hadn't been replicated in the snv_110 environment. Duh!
So I quickly added the postgresql.jar file to my WAR archive, re-deployed it and suddenly, it's all good again.
Nice to know that it was a simple solution, I'm just annoyed it took me so long for the lights to go on :-)
06 Mar · Fri 2009
Kernel Conference Australia - Call for Papers issued
