Well, that was fast. Back in ReadingSolarisTeaLeaves I wrote:

Any free version of Solaris 10 is now basically a sampler, muchlike Oracle has done with a personal use version of their database,and I wouldn't be surprised if the Solaris license was revised toreflect that in a while.

When I wrote this, I was thinking 'in six months or so'. Infact it was less than a month; as Ben Rockwood wrote recently , Solaris isno longer free to use. You can

I mentioned in the last entry that 'worklogs',email reports of what we've done on our systems, work for my current jobhere at the university but did not really work for my previous job, tothe extent that we fell out of the habit of writing them. As it happens,I have some theories on why this happened; in fact, I think that thereare two important contributing factors, one technical and one cultural.

The first is that we have an official search interface (and

Over the past few years, I've become a real fan of using checklists . But I wasn't always this way, and I think how I evolvedto using checklists in my work is an interesting illustration of howsmall cultural things can make a big difference.

As far as I can reverse engineer the evolution, it goes like this:

A few years ago I switched jobs within the university, moving to a newgroup . The new group had and has a strongculture of writing what we call '