I think I may have finally woken up to a (potential) cause for my random NumLock issues : the xine media player. Oneindicator, one that I really should have paid attention to earlier, isthat often starting xine will turn on NumLock (and sometimes turn itoff immediately afterwards). It is of course hard to be entirely suresince the problem is erratic, but I've been doing some testing sinceI noticed the correlation and I don't think I've ever had the problemwhen

We've recently been looking into using jumbo frames on gigabit Etherneton Solaris 10U4 x86 (aka Solaris 10 8/07); it turns out that thisis more work than you might expect, and information on it is somewhatscattered.

First, as of S10U4 only a few gigabit network drivers are documented assupporting jumbo frames:

In system design, we're periodically confronted with a choice betweenbuilding our environment out of a few big systems or a swarm of smallones. For example, consider storage; if you want 48 Tb of storage, youcould buy two Sun Thumpers or six or seven smaller 15-disk units. Bigsystems are often attractive; their very size gives them economies ofscale (and often means they cost less overall), and it's easier to dealwith only two boxes instead of six or

There's any number of programming languages I'd like to learn, rangingfrom the prosaic like C++, Java, and JavaScript (mostly because itwould make it easier to work with various interesting things writtenin them, like Firefox) to the esoteric favorites like Haskell andErlang. Unfortunately, I have a problem.

My problem is that I can't learning languages by themselves in theabstract; I can't just sit down and learn one just to know it. I needto be