Muli Ben-Yehuda's journal

Are Virtual Machine Monitors Microkernels Done Right? by Steven Hand, Andrew Warfield, Keir Fraser, Evangelos Kotsovinos, Dan Magenheimer.

(The rest of the conference program for HotOS05 looks pretty good too).

Baruch Even is full of planet goodness lately. Witness planet (former) advogato and planet FOSS-IL.

“I watched good TV last night”[1].

An episode of Friends(!) that had some subtlety, an episode of Law & Order that was excellent as usual, as episode of ER that actually made me shiver[2] and the first episode of Nip / Tuck, which really was as good as it’s claimed to be. Reflecting about it now, I realize that the shows felt *real* and made me care, if only for a few moments.

[1] in my defense, I was after very little sleep, a long day of military reserve duty, and my wrists hurt when I type. Doesn’t leave too many options.

[2] Spoiler alert: it’s the one where the ER is quiet all night, and Benton rips Gant the surgical intern a new one because he messes up. Carter sides with Benton and lets Gant down. At the end of the night a terribly mauled patient arrives after having jumped or tripped in front of the train. Everyone is happy to finally have some work and feel sorry for the patient who has no face left. Benton asks for Gant to be paged. The patient’s pager beeps… the looks on Benton and Carter’s faces as they realize they’re working on Gant are haunting.

Some times, it feels good to be working for big blue.

IBM Systems Journal Issue on Open Source Software.

I was going through the pictures Orna and me took last December when we visited Paris (I’ll put them up … eventually). I really like this one:

Note to self: bringing a laptop to a seminar “in case it’s boring” is like buying car insurance and then driving blind folded.

(Case in point: ” An Incremental Super-Linear Preferential Internet Topology Model”. What I’m doing instead? you’re reading it…)

Looks like IBM has joined the modern age and will start encouraging employees to blog. Here’s the Official Blogging Policy. This is probably a good time to mention once again that anything you read here does not represent in any way shape or form IBM’s opinions. Like… duh.

Airport -> Train -> Hotel. Nothing special to talk about, everything was simple and efficient.

The hotel has a spectacular view and pretty good food, but other than that, it’s craptacular. Expensive, no air conditioning(!), and the wireless is so expensive it’s best referred to as “extortion”. As is plainly evident from the fact that you’re reading this, I succumbed to the extortion.

Yesterday I ate breakfast in Haifa, Israel. Today I ate breakfast on the shore of the Lake of Zurich, Switzerland, watching a swan swim by. Life is good sometimes.

The flight was uneventful. The plane was full, but I had a relatively comfortable aisle seat and a non-annoying person in the seat next to me. I even got some work done, mostly reading papers (e.g. An I/O Architecture for Mikrokernel-Based Operating Systems) and patent filings (yuck). Once I got tired of work I watched half of Coach Carter, which was mind numblingly simplistic, but in a good way.

(got to call in for a conference call now; more later)

My trip to Zurich has been approved. Leaving tomorrow (Monday afternoon), coming back early on Friday morning. I’m going to be meeting Orran Krieger (the man and the legend) on Tuesday for some hypervisor goodness, and then we’ll have two days of technical flam^H^H^H^Hdiscussions on Wednesday and Thursday with out Watson and Zurich colleagues.

Can you tell I’m excited about this trip?