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jimgris Atami
Jul 3, 9:16 AM
Took a few days off and went down to the ocean at Atami ...
jimgris Upcoming Events: Linux, OpenSolaris, Web 2.0
Jul 3, 8:03 AM
I hope to check out three community events in Tokyo in the next week or so: - 7/10: OpenSolaris User Group: ZFS and OpenSolaris Security - 7/11: Tokyo Linux User Group: Network Security and ZFS - ...
jimgris OSUG Logos
Jul 3, 7:42 AM
The guys in the Venezuela OpenSolaris User Group came up with a pretty cool logo ... I like the one from the Chile OpenSolaris User Group too ... And there are many more, of course. See all the ...
bobn VirtualBox 3.0 is now available
Jun 30, 7:41 AM
jimgris 1 Minute at CommunityOne
Jun 30, 5:37 AM
Ashwin Bhat and Angad Singh asked me for one minute of my time outside the keynote hall at CommunityOne a few weeks ago. Hey, what's a minute, right? Happy to. But this minute was to be digitally ...
jimgris Tokyo Hackerspace
Jun 29, 1:06 AM
I've been checking out the Tokyo Hackerspace gmail list for a few weeks. Looks very interesting. The project grew out of some discussions at BarCamp Tokyo a couple of months ago, and I spoke to ...
jimgris New ZFS Book Coming to Japan
Jun 27, 11:42 PM
Four members of the Japan OpenSolaris Community wrote a book on ZFS recently. It`s coming out in July, and it`s specifically for the Japanese market. The cover has not been selected yet, but here are ...
jimgris Japan OpenSolaris Community Meeting 062709
Jun 27, 7:45 PM
The Japan OpenSolaris Community together on Saturday. Nice day (and night). About 60 people came by for the three sessions, two of which were in Japanese and the third in English. Then all three ...
jimgris Japan Linux Symposium: Tokyo, October 2009
Jun 26, 7:48 PM
It's excellent to see the 9th Annual Linux Kernel Summit and the 1st Annual Japan Linux Symposium coming to Tokyo in October. Check out this language from the LF website: "The Japan Linux Symposium ...
jimgris OpenSolaris in Brazil: Right at the Top!
Jun 26, 7:04 PM
Nothing like going right to the very top, eh? My goodness. Here's the OpenSolaris community in Brazil at FISL hanging out with Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva . I think this sets a new ...
jimgris OpenSolaris b117
Jun 26, 7:16 AM
I just updated to OpenSolaris development build 117. Easy. Go get it here . 
jimgris Shooting the Street in NYC
Jun 25, 10:20 AM
I love these six videos of street photographers walking around shooting images in New York City . My fav is Sandra, who said, "Wow, this is what a father looks like when no one`s looking." She ...
jimgris Earning Confidence
Jun 25, 7:44 AM
A Workers’ Paradise Found Off Japan’s Coast : “Mr. Fujimoto said he would resign immediately if a serious rival appeared in an election. `That would be a sign the village has lost confidence in me,` ...
timf ZFS Automatic Snapshots 0.12 - event-based snapshots and bugfixes
Jun 24, 3:44 AM
jimgris Extraction
Jun 23, 7:46 AM
Communicating is all about building relationships, and that`s always a two way street (or if you are in the community business, a multi-way street). Every wonder what a rapid fire relationship with ...
jimgris Defend Yourself
Jun 21, 10:13 AM
When I was in San Francisco a few weeks ago, I picked The 48 Laws of Power and The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene . If you love history and the study of how things really get done, check these ...
jimgris Pink Backhoes with Attitude
Jun 19, 6:16 PM
I love this. An excavating contractor has five or six heavy backhoes on this site ripping apart an old concrete building. And they are painted a lovely shade of pink with white polka dots. How`s that ...
jimgris OpenSolaris 2009.06 Launch: Tokyo
Jun 19, 10:15 AM
I went to the Tokyo launch of OpenSolaris 2009.06 at Sun's office in Jingumae earlier tonight. Good turn out of about 100 people. The lineup: Introduction, Akira Ohsone; OpenSolaris 2009.06, Shunsuke ...
jimgris 2 Deadlines to Create New Website Collectives
Jun 18, 12:32 AM
As part of the new schedule for the website transition , there are two important deadlines to get collective infrastructure (Communities, Projects, User Groups) on opensolaris.org: June 30th: Hidden ...
bobn VirtualBox 3.0 Beta Release 1 is now available for testing
Jun 17, 9:51 AM
The first beta release of VirtualBox 3.0 is now available. You can download the binaries at http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.0.0_BETA1/ Version 3.0 will be a major update. The following ...
jimgris Website Infrastructure: Collective Life Cycle Instructions
Jun 17, 9:37 AM
I drafted a new document to answer questions about collective life cycle issues on opensolaris.org -- Website Infrastructure: Collective Life Cycle Instructions . The document lives in the Website ...
jimgris Tokyo CGM Night Episode 5: 061609
Jun 16, 11:10 AM
Here are some images from Tokyo CGM Night Episode 5 at KDDI Web Communications the other night. The event was hosted on by Danny Choo and Andrew Shuttleworth , of course, and it was nice to see a lot ...
jimgris Japan OSUG and Tokyo OSUG: Joint Meeting 6/27
Jun 15, 10:26 AM
The OpenSolaris community in Japan is planning its second multi-session user group meeting -- combining the Japan OSUG and the Tokyo OSUG . The meeting will be in Sun`s Yoga office ( directions with ...
timf Hacking OpenSolaris miniroots
Jun 15, 9:08 AM
Some of the work I've done recently involved some changes to virt-install(1) to teach it how to install xVM guests from OpenSolaris AI servers - work that you'll see going back soon as a patch to ...
jimgris 148 OpenSolaris User Groups
Jun 14, 9:01 PM
We added some new OpenSolaris User Groups lately, so we are up to 148 now. Check the leaders grid for an OSUG near you. And if you are starting an OSUG in your area and want us to link to your ...
jimgris Website: Direct User Mailings Start
Jun 14, 8:49 PM
If you have an account on opensolairs.org (and there should be over 100k of you), then you should have received the email below sometime over the last couple of days. This mailing starts a series of ...
jimgris Happy Birthday OpenSolaris
Jun 14, 5:40 PM
Unix is 40 and OpenSolaris is 4 . Happy birthday, OpenSolairs! Four years ago we opened the OS/Net consolidation source code (but six months before that we opened DTrace). Opening sequence here .
jimgris BSD, Linux, OpenSolaris: A Conference in Tokyo
Jun 12, 10:21 AM
I've been thinking that it might be an interesting time to do a little kernel conference for OpenSolaris, Linux, and the BSDs right here in Tokyo. Get everyone together. See what happens. What the ...
jimgris Website Transition: Two Phase 1 Documents Posted
Jun 12, 9:38 AM
This morning Bonnie posted two documents supporting the Phase 1 website transition plans : The plan to implement the governance and website roles and collectives, and The data migration strategy ...
jimgris Website Transition Schedule: Update
Jun 10, 12:15 AM
We had to update Phase 1 of the website transition plan earlier this week. Phase 1 is being rescheduled to account for some community infrastructure requirements needed after CommunityOne and the ...