Posts tagged "community"

The weather forecast for this weekend doesn’t look too great (at least for where I live in), so why not visit some strange and fun places on the internet?

Here’s something weird I recently found: Wplace. The idea is simple, but powerful: Overlay pixels on top of a world map, then let anybody edit those pixels, one pixel at a time.

The result is fascinating: from simple logos and drawings, through meme imagery and icons to the most complex and artistic pixel drawings. Though the terms of service do forbid the use of bots, I can’t imagine some of the images having really been painted pixel by pixel. There’s a 1 pixel every 30 second throttling, probably to prevent misuse or bots, too.

Some of the stuff is quite breathtaking, some just crude or immature. Kinda like the whole internet.

It reminds me of of the Million Dollar Homepage from 2005, remember?

Lots of speculation about Solaris and OpenSolaris is happening right now, with an allegedly leaked email being the latest generator of buzz, rumors and troll-ism.

But is that any useful? No.

So let’s cut through the shiitake, do some due diligence and focus on some real facts instead.

In this article, we’ll check out some real and authoritative sources of Solaris direction, mainly John Fowler’s recent webcast about Solaris 11. Then we’ll see what our future opportunities as members of the Solaris community are, and close with some pointers to other opinions on Solaris 11.