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. :)

Windstruck

I watched a Korean film, "Windstruck".
Its Japanese title is "Bokuno Kanojo wo Shokai Shimasu", and in English
that means "I'd like to introduce my girlfriend". The English title comes
from a beautiful scene in the film and I think the choice is also a good idea.
(Can anyone tell me what the original Korean title means?)

The heroine is a cute and veeeery daring policewoman. :o) You will see
a tragic incident in film, but the story is on the whole romantic and
a bit comical. I assure you that you can go home with happy
impressions.

BTW, the actress, Jeon Ji-Hyeon, is the same with "My Sassy Girl"
which made a hit about 3 years ago.

I think it's not just a coincidence that the character of the heroine
of "My Sassy Girl" is a bit similar to the one of "Windstruck". At
least in Japan, she is popular only through her films for now
different from other Asian countries, and thus she seems to have
acquired something strange impression like Audrey Tautou who played
"Amelie from Montmartre" and "He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not".
I hope she can get more good impressions like other Korean actresses in Japan.

Dark Blue World

I have several DVDs I've not watched yet.

As I had no appointments in this week end, I wached "Dark Blue World".
It's a story of two fighter pilot and a woman during the second world
war, and in a sense, it's a sad story with a lot of air combat scenes.
Some people might feel it like "Perl Harbor" or "Top Gun", but the
film has a bit different atmosphere from them.

One thing interesting about this film is that in Japan it's
distributed by the studio GHIBLI which is well known as
Hayao Miyazaki's studio. Perhaps, it looks like strange that GHIBLI do
that, but it's well known that Miyazaki loves very much weapons and
stories about them specially the ones before WW2. In this sense, we
could say that Mamoru Oshii has a similarity with Mr. Miyazaki. :o)

I think it undoubted that both of them influcenced a lot of media
creators in the world like Wachowski brothers. But, I'm not sure if

they share the same preferences with Miyazaki and Oshii.

Perhaps, this can be one of the peculiar aspects of Japanese animation
creators. :o)

psqlfs

I found an interesting project, psqlfs.

psqlfs uses an RDBMS, PostgreSQL, as its physical data storage.

To tell the truth, I'm not interested in psqlfs itself so much, but
its base feature, LUFS, is interesting. LUFS reminds me of former user
land filesystems such as UFO of UCSB.

When I saw lufs for the first time, an idea came to me in a flush, but
I'm going to write it after some hack. :)

Onaji Sora no Shita

"Onaji Sora No Shita" is a short but very interesting TV program. :)

The title means "Under the same sky" in English, and it's a series of
short introductions of charming, adorable, intelligent and beautiful
women. I wish I could have a HDD recorder...
Perhaps, I should buy one right now!? :o)
In addition, its BGM is cool. :)

Recently in Japan, we often hear covers of a classic tune "Jupiter" by
Holst. For example, Ayaka Hirahara. Also, a CM film BGM of Nomura
Securites has been very popular. It's by Kirite Te Kanawa.

But this time, we have one more Jupiter by The Eccentric Opera. It's astral, and I like their Jupiter best. :)

Mona

Yet another new OS topic, Mona.

Mona is a new multi-server model microkernel based operating system
written in C++. One thing interesting about this OS is that the
project began through a discussion in a really really big Japanese BBS
system, called '2ch'. Thus, the projects seems to be going on using an
ideal(?) bazaar model. :o)

Different from OSASK which I wrote about yesterday, now networking
supports seems to be one of hot topics of the Mona team. At least for
now, Nov. 3, 2004, only ARP and ICMP seem to work, but I'm expecting
TCP/IP works not so far future. :)

BTW, the project has several design documentations.
I found some sequence diagrams (of UML? possibly) among them and
a bit surprised. Sequence diagrams of OS! Amazing, isnt't it? :o)

One more thing is the following panic. :o)

Of course, I was kidding while trying a demo floppy. But, I think it's questinable that we can kill the 'idle' process. :o)

Apart from that, anyway GUI works and many OS geeks are joining to the
project. So, I expect they will make a good progress.