July 31, 20141 Comment on San Jose future bikeways details
The city of San Jose DOT will hold meetings next week and the week following to discuss future bikeways in East San Jose and in the area just west of downtown. You can find an overview and meeting schedule here. Details of the planned bikeways are also now available; you can read them below the map of the west of downtown project proposals.
July 25, 2014Leave a Comment
The Los Altos (CA) History Museum began exhibiting “Pedal Power: From Wacky to Workhorse” last April. As part of this summer-long bike theme, the museum has two special events over the weekend.
July 3, 20143 Comments on San Jose bikeways future projects public hearings
June 30, 20141 Comment on No San Jose Bike Train this week
Attention San Jose: San Jose Bike Train will not operate this week. The next Bike Train runs on Wednesday, July 16.
Additional bike and transit stuff below the photo of that awesome dude waving the American flag from his (made in Canada) bicycle.
June 10, 20142 Comments on San Jose City Council to discuss Diridon Area Plan tonight
In computer systems, the “BIOS” (which used to stand for “Basic Input Output System”) is the initial code that runs when a PC system is first powered on. After power-on self test (POST) and various other initialization activities, the BIOS code finds CPUs, memory, add-on cards and storage devices before passing control to an operating system such as Windows, Linux, or Solaris.
I’m part of the team that designed and announced the Oracle Sun Server X4-8. This is an x86 computer system with up to eight Intel Xeon E7-8895 v2 processors (for a total of 240 cores), 6 terabytes of RAM, up to 9.6 TB of local storage, 16 hot-swappable PCIe slots and oodles of other features.
We fit all of that into a very dense 5 rack unit form factor. And we still support 16-bit Real mode “legacy” BIOS which has an interface dating to the original IBM PC from 1981. The BIOS interface has been hacked at since then to support the ever increasing capabilities and complexity in modern systems, and some of the hacks are exactly what the word implies — they’re ugly and non-optimal. To exploit the full capabilities of this system, you really should use UEFI BIOS, which was designed to overcome the limitations of an ancient and inflexible computing architecture.
June 4, 2014Leave a Comment
Santa Clara County has completed their vote counts and the results are in. I compare my predictions versus the results. Under California’s open primary system, the top two voters are placed on the general election ballot this November. If any candidate gets a majority in the primary, that person is the immediate winner with no run off election.
Mayor
Dave Cortese won with 34% of the votes, with Sam Liccardo in second place at 25%, which is what I predicted. Both will appear on the November ballot. Madison Nguyen in third place won 21% of the votes.
I support Liccardo, although Cortese is not a horrible choice. I’m gonna go out on a limb now and predict Cortese will win this November.
District 1
I endorsed Susan Marsland, who took third place in this race with 17% of the vote. The two winners — Paul Fong (29%) and Chappie Jones (23%) — matches my predictions. My guess for November: Fong will win.
District 3
I predicted Gagliardi and Sutherland and completely missed: the winners are San Jose police officer Raul Perelez and Don Gagliardi. Gagliardi just eeked ahead of Sutherland by 110 votes.
I continue to endorse Gagliardi for the November race. Both Perelez and Gagliardi will have a lot of money behind each of their campaigns.
District 5
I predicted incumbent Xavier Campos would take the top spot, with Magdalena Carrasco winning enough to appear on the November ballot with him. It turns out D-5 voters are sick of Campos’s shenanigans and voted his tail out of office. The results are not yet official, but it appears Carrasco won a majority.
District 7
I made no prediction for this District. Tam Nyugen and Maya Esparza will appear on the November ballot.
District 9
I predicted a win for incumbent Donald Rocha; he bagged it at 74%.
