spring

It's spring! It feels like it today. Almost balmy. Yay!

John's in town this weekend, so looking forward to seeing him.

Having dinner with Yoko tonight. It's been a couple months since I last saw her.

solaris

Installing solaris 9 for the first time on a vmware virtual machine on top of a windows xp box. The vmware installation went fine, but the solaris installation is really not going well at the moment.

Yuck!

At least it worked in the end.

One problem: to install all the software, you need something like more than 6 gigs of space on the hard disk. Why, I'm not sure, as the estimates say only 2 something gigs. But it kept saying not enough space, so in the end I just allocated 7 gigs on the main hard disk for it.

The nice thing about installing Solaris on a virtual machine was that I could delete a hard drive and create a new one, and reinstall Solaris on that if I messed up. Of course I might have all this unused space being locked up, but as far as I know, I don't. Can you tell I'm a newbie to VMWare?

2nd problem: after using the Solaris OS disk (disk 1) to install the os, it prompts to remove the cd and reboot. On reboot, it would ask which partition to boot from, and of course I chose the Solaris partition. Apparently, this is the wrong choice, as Solaris boots nicely from the Windows partition. . I am not a hardware or low-level os person.

Anyway, once I allocated enough hard drive space, everything went smoothly and I have a nice Solaris installation. I think. Laf. I didn't explore much. Once I was finished I went home and cleaned my apt and crashed.

Nestle demands money from Ethiopian Govt

Interesting article.

What do you think?

Public officials in Japan must be Japanese

Interesting. A recent Japanese Supreme Court decision.

The top court said, "Only Japanese are allowed, in principle, to serve as 'local officials who exercise public authority on the principle under which the sovereignty resides with the people,'" and the country's "legislation has not taken into account the appointment of foreign nationals" to such posts.

The decision was 13-2.

communication

通信 means communication in Japanese, but is only used for communication between machines or objects. Not for people, as I learned yesterday. Laf. Robots communicating would be 通信。So what's communication between robots and people?

Also, the dictionary form of the verb is called 終止形。Full stop form, if you look at the meaning of each character.

french fries

AKA fried potatoes in Japan.

Which is better, MiniStop fried potatoes or Burger King french fries?

Both are delicious!!!! In my opinion.

RSS and related formats

I'm just doing a little research into RSS and Atom right now, and is it me or is it just one big happy mess?

RSS 0.90, 0.91, 0.92, 0.93, 0.94, 1.0, 1.1 (out this month!), 2.0
Atom (now on 0.3 API spec)
RDF (old school)