I caught a cold this weekend. It was a combination of running around in the cold on the Friday night getting food, getting beer and then getting to a party and then skiing on Sunday at Killington. Luckly I have a job where I can work from home every once in awhile instead of going in misserable and getting everyone else sick (which is what I used to do).

The weekend was a pretty social one. I met some people at the party and since I ski’ed alone I met a bunch of people on the mountain. I didn’t meet anyone I would say call up to have a beer with at some random point but it is always nice to be able to talk to people on topics other than computers. And, if I see them on the slopes or at a party sometime I’ll gladly have a drink with them.

Making Linux More Dynamic

I know I haven’t been blogging about technical stuff lately so on a more technical note I have a short slide presentation on making Linux more dynamic when it comes to service management. I was tasked with finding ways to make Fedora boot a bit quicker but since Davidz had the direct approch pretty much finished by the time I got around to looking at the boot process I decided to go off in this direction. It is basicly an expansion of the parallel boot process proposed by Seth a while back. A couple of differences are that there is no longer any need for a “Python Wrapper” around legacy services since the Service/Policy manager would “wrap” any service that did not export its own dbus api and my idea adds life cycle management. I don’t aggree that having a boatload of daemons running at once is a bad thing as long as they are all doing something useful and not just sitting around.

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