usenix, the advanced computer systems association. Visit the link for more information.

Yep, Sunday night. Tomorrow starts another week of the standard stuff… or does it?

I have spent some time adding new modules and things to the site, but not all of it is configured yet. I cleaned up the non-logged in main page to add info about the meetings, as it didn’t make sense to not have that on there. I also discovered that once you disable anonymous access from a number of items, everything vanishes when you are not logged in. The obvious fix would be to allow anonymous access to nodes, which makes a whole bunch of stuff visible, as everything is a node, but now nothing is hidden. Back to the drawing board and that is what resulted in fixing up the main page.

For any of those who are interested, there is a write-up on yahoo about Vista. I saw this just after Vista was available in the stores and promptly forgot to post it.

For those who care: news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070220/tc_pcworld/129126;_ylt=ArUL.0rIZ1sp2JhxpDrz3yEDW7oF

It looks like there is a new scam on the go. You get a phone call offering you a low interest rate on your card. Just press 0 (or some number) to speak to a representative. After a moment you get a person on the other end who offers a very sweet deal on a credit card or some such and then asks some verification info from you to prove who you really are. They even try to get your credit card number so they can send you a new one with a lower rate.

We had fun recently at a local company when setting up a Solaris 9 Jumpstart server. When installing a new client, it kept asking if we wanted to disable Power Management. Problem is, it was asking this question AT THE BEGINNING of the installation, and not at the end as usual. Everything was configured properly, we had the finish script to disable this question, but it still kept popping up.
Digging through all documentation that you never knew it existed, I found an interesting bit of information: Solaris Webstart (the new ways of installing programs introduced with Solaris 8 ) does indeed ask this question at the beginning, whereas the old and proven suninstall is the one that asks this question at the end. When you configure the Jumpstart server using the DVD it automatically downloads everything, including Webstart. And, by default you’ll run Webstart (if it was setup in the Jumpstart server) when executing the ‘boot net - install’ command from your client.