James’ BlogCentral

Hi all,
It has been a while since I’ve blogged. I hope to be more active now that I’ve settled into my new job. I like the job. It’s different than Sun, of course, but the longer I’m there the more I like it.
I promise to work on the blogging.
Cheers!
–James

Hi all,

This is blog entry number 517. It is also my last for my Sun blog. Today is my last day at Sun Microsystems.

The past four years have been fantastic. Sun is a wonderful place to work: a great atmosphere and even greater colleagues. I will miss it very much. To Leave Sun was a tough decision to make.

It’s now time for me to move on. If you’ve been reading my blog over the years and still want to, you can. I have a personal blog at http://blog.jambra.net/bc/. I hope to see you there.

So, goodbye for now. See you around, wherever that may be.

Cheers!

–James

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Hi all,

What a game. The Indianapolis Colts blew out the St. Louis Rams 42-6. We’re already of of Daylight Savings Time over here, so I was able to watch the game starting at 6 p.m. Sweet!

Let’s see if the Colts can keep the ball rolling.

Cheers!

-James

Hi all,
I’m leaving my current company for another company in November. I have two MacBook Pros, and until now I’ve used my personal MacBook as my main computer. I’m buying my work laptop before I leave, and I want to move my ITunes library over to this Mac without losing things like playlists and album artwork. Here;s how I did it.

1. I hooked up the two Macs with a firewire cable. On the old Mac, I held down the T key when I pressed the startup button. Firewire mode thus activated, and the old Mac showed up on my new Mac in the Finder.
2. I located the ITunes folder on my new Mac. It was in ~/Mucis/ITunes. I deleted the library that was there and then copied the ITunes library from the old computer into this folder. It took a while because I have  lot of music.

Everything was intact: music, playlists, ratings, album artwork, everything.

One thing I will do before I sell my old Mac ide deactivate the old Mac from my ITunes account. You only get five computers, and I might need one of these in the future.

Cheers!

–James

Hi all,

My 7-month-old son got his American citizenship a week ago. He was born in March, and we had to register his birth at the U.S. Embassy in Prague. It was a very smooth process. We were also able to apply for his Social Security card and his passport. I pick up the passport tomorrow morning. (You can see his passport photo at the top of this blog entry).

So, my son now has dual citizenship: Czech and American. He’ll be able to choose which one he keeps when he is older.

I think that this is a good thing.

My days at Sun are winding down. I’ll be making a big announcement in November.

Cheers!

–James

Hi all,

VirtualBox rocks!

As you know, I’ve been designing a training course for Cloud Computing and I’ve been playing around with hypervisors. My favorite type 2 hypervisor is Sun’s VirtualBox. It’s free and easy to use.

Look at the screenshot above. I have six operating systems installed as guest operating systems on VirtualBox. No disk partitioning was required to do this. Each operating system has its own virtual hard disk image. The image is expandable too.

If you haven’t had the chance to check out VirtualBox, be sure to do so. You will like what you see.

Cheers!

–James

Hi all,

A person blog entry today. The Indianapolis Colts are 5-0 after the first five weeks of the season. Could be a Superbowl season.

I’ve been watching the games on NFL Gamepass. And when the Colts play early in the morning my time, I watch the game with my 7-month-old son the next morning. No interruptions. Cool.

Cheers!

–James

Hi all,

This is the last blog entry for September. September has not been a good month for blogging (for me anyway). A lot has been going, both at work and at home. I’ll be writing more about the work part later. Here are some random comments:

• A few days ago I posted a video advocated health care for all. Then I received the comments. The comments I’m talking about are spam in the form of arguments against health care. At first I approved them. Then I discovered that several people had submitted the very same comment to other blogs. What losers. I’m fortunate to live in country where health care is available to all. The system works, and if someone says it doesn’t, they are either lying to you or stupid to know.
• I’ve been finishing up my cloud training course with my colleagues. It’s looking really good.
• NetBeans 6.8 Beta should be out very soon.
• My son is growing fast! He is getting his first tooth now.

Well, that’s it for today (and this month). I’ll try to do better next month.

Cheers!

–James