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Well, people started getting Mac OS X 10.1 this week, and people seem to like it. We also managed to finally get the first two chapters of the Darwin Q&A out. You would not believe how much effort that took. The sourceforge OS X compile farm machines also came up. I have been helping the guys at sourceforge with them out on and off for a while now, so it was really cool. All in all this was pretty eventful week, a whole bunch of things came together very fulfilling ;-)

Today was just so strange. I should have realized it when my phone woke me at 7:30 at the caller ID said it was my mother. She told me about the World Trade Center. My response was "Your joking, right?" She would never joke about something like that, I just couldn't immediately process that it had happened.

Everyone I was worried might be there turned out to be somewhere else. Apparently one of my cousins was in one of the buildings when it happened. He was on the first floor, and is okay. It is just a little disconcerting. I keep wondering if there are friends who were in there that I am not thinking about, I certainly did not expect my cousin to be there.

My family and I were going to get together with my one of best friend's family in LA. My parents aren't anticipating being able to make it now (their flight was supposed to be on thursday), nor is my best friend, though his mother and sister are already there. I may still go, but if I do anticipate that it will be faster to drive than it will be to go through the heightened security

Someone setup an internal rebroadcast of CNN via quicktime at work. One of my testing machines just played it all day. I felt physically ill watching some of it.

Robert Watson was at Apple this week for a conference. I was asked to have lunch with him yesterday. It was amusing since I have met Rob before, but nobody knew that ;-) We talked for a while about TrustedBSD, FreeBSD, and Darwin. Later people watched AntiTrust in Townhall (one of Apple's auditoriums). It was an... amusing movie.

I have a whole bunch of stuff to do, but unfortunately most of interesting stuff is bottlenecked on one development, which is annoying. Things are fun, but they should be a lot more fun soon.

I have not posted in forever, I suppose I should. I guess the fact that I have not been releasing much code may have something to do with it. I started working for Apple, which has complicated things, but I enjoy my job a lot. There are all sorts of interesting people around, and I get to work on neat things.

Its kind of wierd, I am still doing a bunch of opensource related things, but in a more in a political / administrative way. Lots of things need timing or decisions. My hand is not as free in the sense that I can't just do something, I need to check into it. Yet I have not actually been restricted from doing anything I want to. I bet a lot of people who work in commerical software development have the same issues, though Apple seems to be more highly scrutinized than most places.

I need to finish my draft abstract thingy for BSDcon. I need to finish lots of things.

Well, it has been a long time since I posted. I just presented a hack at Machack. I wrote a kernel extension that patched the panic handler, attempted to recover from a panic, and thrws the message up to the WindowServer. It only works on some types of panics, so I had an instrumented hardware related crash I used to trigger it. It went okay, but not great. Hopefully I will place somewhere in the hack contest.

I am so close to done. Commencement is on saturday. I am signed up for my final couple independent studies. I am moving out of my apartment this weekend.

My goals for next week are really simple. Eat, sleep, bike (I have not taken my bike out this season yet, which is a shame), and write an immense amount of code for INSC. I am hopeful once there is a certain mass of code there people will get more interested.

I have been working on INSC a bit, getting some (very empty nonfunctional) code out, setting up our CVS structure. The fact that everyone on the list except for myself and rooneg are lurking does not help, but I guess the nature of the beast is that once I get a big mass of code out, more people will become interested. Ah well.

I am pretty psyched. I was asked to be a panelist at one of the opensource sessions at WWDC. This has been a pretty good year in terms of conferences. BSDcon in october, WWDC and MacHack this summer. I would go to Usenix except that I will be driving across the country at the time. Ah well, still a pretty good run.

Well, took a little bit of time and did a clean up of BootX. I committed the patches today. I want to get it working with NetBSD/ppc, but I just don't have time for it right now. In a few weeks hopefully.

INSC is moving along. Not much traffic this weekend, but a bunch of people, a few conversations, and a lot of thought. This is like we had thought it would be from a scheduling standpoint. Oh, I found out sourceforge documentation displays in the browser, so I cleaned up the overview so that it would display nicer.

Well, sourceforge/geocrawler still do not seem to be archiving our lists, so I posted an overview of what we seem to be currently thinking in the list discussions. We decided we are going to go with the SCTP socket style interface, and we will introduce the extended calls sctp_bindx and sctp_peeloff, instead of trying to butcher bind to accept multiple endpoints.

I think I have managed to put together a pretty good team of people for this, and once we are done with finals we should get a chance to work on this seriously. I still would like to get someone who is a bit more familiar with IPsec than I am involved with this, but that can honestly wait until we have something working. I am pretty sure I know where the hooks need to go, I am just worried about the subtleties.