Spikey Pillow

Kalashnikov Vodka is coming to Ireland in the near future. General Kalashnikov stated in a press release that his goal is to fully satisfy the needs of all real men. The AK-47 was just the first stepping stone in his path for dominance of the male-orientated industry. By 2012 he hopes to have established his own chain of brothels nationwide. The General asks you to express your devotion to Kalashnikov Global by submitting your poems about vodka, guns, and women on the friendship page of his website.

What architecture would you target? Obviously the answer is the JVM...

Oh, and yes, Fortress is very growable.*

*Growable is an actual real word, I checked.

OpenSolaris have a new grant program where they are sponsoring undergrads to do research on OpenSolaris. Research includes anything from writing a new device driver, porting OpenSolaris to a new architecture, new userland software, to improvements to existing programs. You don't even have to be a coder, they are also looking for documentation and training materials. The scope is massive. There is a list of suggested projects and accepted proposals.

The deadline for applications is Thursday May 15th, so you've got about a month to get a proposal in. You also need a faculty member to sponsor your application. The grant is $5000, and the time line is: applications submitted by May 15th, successful applicants announced on June 16th, project end on Dec 16th.

For more info you can sign up to the mailing list here.

PS. If you're not an undergraduate you can still apply for the Community Innovation Awards

Update: 19/09

The list of accepted projects has been published. The winners are:

• DVD Authoring System for Open Solaris
  Igor Struchkov, Vladimir Omelin
  Saint-Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
  
• Image Storage and Retrieval in OpenSolaris
  Sanjiv K. Bhatia, Antonin Brjetchka, Drew Garrett, Dante Avery
  University of Missouri - Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
  
• Application Flow Controller
  Huang Liqun, Zhou Li, Zhao Jinhua, Zhou Bin, Zhang Yu
  Huazhong universty of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
  
• A study of the Zettabyte File System (ZFS)
  Goutam Sanyal, Kurchi Subhra Hazra, Tania Hamid
  National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, West Bengal, India
  
• OpenxVM Research
  Dinesh Naik, Ashwin Bhat K S, Balaji Rao R
  National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India
  
• Antagonistic GA applied to Dynamic Data Sets
  Alex Aravind, Joseph Jeffery, Steven Mclea
  University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC, Canada