Guin Saga 105

105!

Banjo no Teki

"Banjo no Teki" by Kaoru Kitamura.

In English, the title means "Enemies on the board" (in a direct translation).
Kaoru Kitamura is one of very popular mystery authors in Japan.
The book is a bit different from other Kitamura's works, and I was a bit surprised.

Lionboy The Chase

"Lionboy the Truth" by Zizou Corder.
ISBN 0-14-138055-1

The 2nd book of Lionboy series.

Blood Memory

"Blood Memory" by Greg Iles.
ISBN 4-4165-0780-9

Like his former work, "The Footprints of God", this is a very good work
but could be a bit tough story for some kind of readers because
child abuse is one of the most important theme of it.

Reset

"Reset" by Kaoru Kitamura.
ISBN 4-10-406604-4

Lionboy

"Lionboy" by Zizou Corder.
ISBN 0-141-31726-4

Guin Saga 104

104!

ISBN 4-14-030818-7

Machi no Hi

"Machi no Hi" by Kitamura Kaoru.
ISBN 4-16-321570-0

The title is of course Japanese, and roughly speaking
that means "City Lights" or like that.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
J.K. Rowling

ISBN-0 7475-8108-8

I bought this book on July 16, 2005.
But, I cannot remember when I finished that.
Anyway, it must have been in July or August, 2005.

BTW, I'm wrting this note on June 23, 2006.
It's about a year since the last book (this 6th book) was
released. I'm wondering when the last one will be available
and what sort of finale we can see.
That must be a tough work to the last book anyway.

OpenSolaris Again

Today, I installed "Solaris Express: Community Release, Build 16" on a
VMWare guest.

Here are some notes.

* OpenSolaris doesn't recognize SCSI cards available in VMWare environment.
* OpenSolaris requires about 8GB of disk space for the entier distribution installation. :(
* The build 16 doesn't contain the language disk, and StarOffice displayed messages written in Chinese. :o

Ether Fabric

June 24, 2005

I didn't know Etherfabric to date.

According to the Ether Fabric web page, especially a paragraph titled
"Binary Software Compatibility", they insist on that Ether Fabric
doesn't require any new protocol software. But, other paragraph titled
"How Ether Fabric Operates" says all socket and MPI operations invoke
functions in a special library of Ether Fabric.

In short, that looks like a hardware (and perhaps software assisted)
implementation of TCP/IP invoked from the user space. If this is
correct, I don't think EtherFabric can be a competitor of InfiniBand
nor iWARP. It's just like an yet another TOE. They need to care about
overall costs especially from a view point of the relationship between
socket API semantics and system bus workloads. (In this sense,
asynchronous operations of MPI could be improved efficiently.)

OpenSolaris

Finally OpenSolaris was released.

When SUN made Solaris8 source code public, many important files were
missing. I hope this time we can see enough files.

Got married

Finally I got married.
I'm not sure if it's really the beginning of happy life or not.. :o

Isanbul

April 24, 2005

Arrived in Istanbul, Turkey around 8:00pm (in local time).

Actually, this is a honeymoon. :o

# To be updated later.

Posted by thatsdone at 23:55

Guin Saga 100

April 09, 2005

Finally, I got the 100th volume of "Guin Saga". :)
It's about 20 years ago when I began to read the books.
it's been a really long time...

But, according to author's notes, she has already finished
the 101st and 102nd books. :o
The story seems to continue more.

I want her to concentrate on the "Guin Saga" more. :o)

Johnnie Walker'CM

In Seoul, I saw an impressive TV CM while I was watching CNN.

In the film, hundreds of naked humans are swimming like flying fishes.
Actually, some of them jump out of the surface of the sea, and they
looked like the hero of "Man From Atlantis".
Eventually, they reach a seashore of somewhere and go ashore.
The ending message is "Take your first step." or something like that.

Its scenene was really beautiful and impressive.

Seoul

March 13, 2005

Now, I'm in Seoul, Korea to attend at this conference held at this hotel.

It's minus 3 degree in Celcius in Seoul and very cold. :(

Sonoma

I'm attending at this workshop and booked "The Lodge at Sonoma Renaissance Resort & Spa."

Of course, this is a business trip. But, it must be one of my happiest trips. :)