(In response to my own post, here) I tried out sReadahead this morning. That experience was very disappointing initial testing. I will describe the process here: Download the source, from moblin.org and compile it. Install readahead-list, created by our own Robbat2 Use the file lists from readahead-list and pass it to sreadahead’s generate_fileset command cd /etc ; generate_filelist /etc/readahead-list/runlevel-boot (I actually tried to concatenate both runlevel-boot and runlevel-default with no additional results.) Shove sreadahead in the readahead-list init scripts reboot End result: No improvement in boot time with either readahead-list or sReadahead.
Old news…by about..2 weeks now. But in case some of you haven’t seen this yet, Linus Torvalds now has his own blog after “having [avoided][1] the whole blogging thing so far” Anyway, here it is for all you blog maniacs out there. http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/ [1]: http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2008/10/first-post.html
Hmm, there is alot of buzz around the fastboot craze and now hitting the proverbial 5 second boot. This is turning out to be a fun thing to follow. Linus doesn’t like the fastboot [patches][4] but developers are adopting some of the patches that these guys have created (see lwn article, X devs offered to help, etc). Anyway, many kudos to Intel for supporting the open source community, Powertop, latencytop, X, kernel..cool.
As I previously wrote about, I just received my D-license yesterday. The D-license is awarded to applicants from the USPA who have achieved 500 skydives and a couple of other requirements. Anyway, my license number is D-29580. That means that I am the 29,580th person to receive my D license. To put that in contrast, the city of Minneapolis has 372,833 people alone. If you take all the people that have received a D-license, there is less than 10% of the population of a major city, and not even the largest major city.
In response to my [last post][1], I just hit another milestone today..that is 200 jumps in a calendar year. I now have 200 skydives in ‘08. Let me look at my log books and break it down for comparison: 2008: (so far) 200 skydives 2007: 199 skydives 2006: 85 skydives 2004: 19 skydives (not including static-line, training jumps) It is interesting to note that I was close to 200 last year, but I have had a much better year this year while being around home more often and spending more time with my girlfriend.