QEMU 0.10 out

I noticed today that two weeks ago a new release of QEMU came out: version 0.10.0. This the first new QEMU release in a year. Good to see that this free virtualization software is still alive, well, and better than ever.

Here’s the changelog for version 0.10.0:
version 0.10.0:

– TCG support (No longer requires GCC 3.x)
– Kernel Virtual Machine acceleration support
– BSD userspace emulation
– Bluetooth emulation and host passthrough support
– GDB XML register description support
– Intel e1000 emulation
– HPET emulation
– VirtIO paravirtual device support
– Marvell 88w8618 / MusicPal emulation
– Nokia N-series tablet emulation / OMAP2 processor emulation
– PCI hotplug support
– Live migration and new save/restore formats
– Curses display support
– qemu-nbd utility to mount supported block formats
– Altivec support in PPC emulation and new firmware (OpenBIOS)
– Multiple VNC clients are now supported
– TLS encryption is now supported in VNC
– MIPS Magnum R4000 machine (Hervé Poussineau)
– Braille support (Samuel Thibault)
– Freecom MusicPal system emulation (Jan Kiszka)
– OMAP242x and Nokia N800, N810 machines (Andrzej Zaborowski)
– EsounD audio driver (Frederick Reeve)
– Gravis Ultrasound GF1 sound card (Tibor “TS” Schütz)
– Many, many, bug fixes and new features

Meeting break

It’s Crunch Week for me. The third week of the month is like that. Here’s my agenda for the week:

  • Monday 5:30 – 6:30 Gather and deliver donations to neighbor in need
  • Monday 7:00 PM – 9:45 PM – Conduct monthly East CAC meeting
  • Tuesday – off
  • Wednesday 5:30 PM – 8:45 PM Raleigh CAC meeting/workshop
  • Thursday 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM Parks board meeting
  • Thursday 6:30 PM – 8 PM Comprehensive Plan hearing
  • Friday 6:00 PM – 9:30 PM volunteer at the Rhine

What a crazy life, but a satisfying one.

Lulu

Ah, Lulu. What can I say? I love the business it’s in, I love the new office. I’m a fan of Bob Young. I even know some Lulus. It would seem like the perfect place to work … if only they hadn’t kicked me to the curb for no good reason back when I had an eight-month-old to feed.

That’s why I’m so conflicted. On the surface Lulu seems like a great place to work but in my experience it wasn’t. I hope things have changed since my all-too-brief days there.

If you want to try your luck, Lulu is hiring. I hope your mileage varies.

Satellite Myth

Last night I took another hack at getting MythTV working with my DVB card. This time I was much more successful! The key was configuring Myth to use the LNB, which was hidden in the mythtv-setup under “capture cards-DiSEqC options. An LNB is not a DiSEqC, so I would’ve never thought to look there, but there it was.
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Shuttle pass

According to this space shuttle tracking site, the space shuttle and ISS will be passing over NC at 60 degrees elevation at 19:36 local time. It may not be dark enough for a sighting but it may be in range to receive radio signals. Cool.

I just watched the shuttle crew enter the ISS, with the familiar nautical ringing the bell and the words “space shuttle discovering, arriving.”

Rocket Roll

Rocket Roll (YouTube)
The Phenomenauts

Spent some time on Rigel 9,
Walkin’ waist deep in the Rigel slime,
Slid fifty feet into a Rigel hole,
Bent my fender but I still know how to

Rocket Roll
–(Rocket Roll!)
Rocket Roll!
–(Rocket Roll!)
Rocket Roll.
–(Rocket Roll)

Some of you people may be out of control,
But I wanna see the rest of you Rocket Roll!
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Mystery spot

poole-road-mystery-spot
Anyone know what this is? It’s a spot between Poole Road and New Bern Avenue.

It looks like a remnant of some now-defunct factory or something.

Rain doubt

Could it be that the non-stop rain of the past four days is coming to an end? One can only hope. I’m ready for the sun!

Chinese athletes lied about age

This is just shocking, I tell you. Shocking! Who would’ve thought it?

Bone tests on teenage Chinese athletes have shown that thousands had faked their age, often in order to keep competing in junior events.

A study in the southern province of Guangdong found one in five had lied, with some discovered to be seven years older than their registered age.

On another note, maybe I need to have a “China” category on MT.Net.