Blogs by davest

I've noticed a disturbing trend amongst a few of the high quality wineries in my state. They have abandoned the cork to close their high-end wine bottles and turned to screw caps.

This is good news to people who struggle with how to get a cork out of a wine bottle. And wine snobs will point to the countless studies which show that metal tops eliminates the possibility that the cork has gone bad and spoiled the wine.

Back in my college days, I sang in the University Chorus, one of those big choirs who sang a variety of pieces, mostly classical and rarely a more contemporary song. One time we had a young music director who was rehearsing us on a newer piece with just a piano player. When we had most of the vocal parts worked out, he announced that at the next rehearsal, the piano would be joined by guitars and percussion. "Then," he said to us with a twinkle in his eye, "the piece will really begin to cook."

I was just in Los Angeles this week for a few days of holiday with my family. With apologies to the Angelinos who might read this post, we got an excellent exposure to the local culture: Traffic snarls, over-the-top personalities in restaurants, loud vocal complaints about "tourists" and agressive negotiations.

 Today we dropped another development milestone build for the Yocto Project. Introducing the M2 build.

Our intent for these regular milestone drops is to synch up everything in the project and pause feature develoment, stabilize the software through some QA runs and bug fixing, and make it available to you, the community. This way you can evaluate the progress we have made, help identify and/or fix bugs and accelerate us to completion. It's also a way for us to be totally transparent in the project.

We had a lot of excitement last April when we launched the 1.0 version of the Yocto Project. We celebrated a little while, and then got ourselves back to work to begin working on the next release of the Yocto Project, due in October.

The Yocto Project Advisory Board made a recommendation that we keep things simple on naming this next release. So we're calling it "version 1.1." We laid out our proposed features at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit with those who were interested in collaborating, and we started work on design and cutting code.

In a classic 1966 science fiction novel [1], some of the moon’s colonists are hiding out in a hotel room in Luna City in the year 2075, and realize that the lunar colony is headed for inevitable chaos and death. So a group of four colonists decided to declare a revolution and they began to formulate their ambitious plans to overthrow the status quo.

This was a favorite book of mine as a kid, probably one of the first I remember reading.

Just a gentle reminder that we are still soliciting your ideas for the next major release of the Yocto Project.

Given that we are close to releasing the 1.0 version of the Yocto Project, we're now sorting through the input we have collected or heard for the next major release, planned for October 2011.

One of the fun things about having a metric system term as a project name is that you can use it in so many useful ways.

Just for review class, according to Wikipedia, a yocto-anything is 10-24 of that thing. So a yoctosecond is one quadrillionth of a second, a very brief time indeed. The rest mass of a proton is about 1.67 yoctograms. 

But a yoctosecond is not so brief a time that you can't have fun with it: