March 2008

SNIA Storage Developers’ Conference, Sept 2007 – Trailer

March 24, 2008

Storage developers gathered in San Jose for SNIA’s annual conference, featuring many Sun speakers. Here’s a quick overview of what we talked about.

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Trailer: The General-Purpose Storage Revolution

March 24, 2008

Jeff Bonwick speaks at SNIA’s Storage Developers’ Conference on the coming revolution in storage, and why resistance is futile.

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Trailer: OpenStorage for Open Solaris

March 24, 2008

Sun’s Brian Wong speaks at Sun Tech Days Milan on why OpenSolaris is a natural for storage developers.

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Trailer: Jeff Jackson on Open Opportunities

March 24, 2008

Jeff Jackson delivers the keynote speech at Sun Tech Days, Milan, Italy: “Open Opportunities: Develop Cool Stuff!”

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Trailer: iSCSI Management API

March 24, 2008

Sun’s John Forte presents a new iSCSI Management API at the SNIA Storage Developer Conference, September 10-13, 2007.

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Trailer: Multipath Management API for SCSI Devices

March 24, 2008

Sun engineer Hyon Kim reports on a new multipath management API for SCSI devices at SNIA’s Storage Developers’ Conference.

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Aggiungi un Posto a Tavola: Una Formica

March 23, 2008

God has decreed that no strangers can come along on the new ark. The only solution is for Toto to marry Consolazione. They are both delighted about this, but the rest of the villagers are not, and roundly declare that they will not help build the ark nor travel on it if Consolazione does. Don [...]

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Leaving Italy

March 19, 2008

Once again, I’m doing something unusual: leaving my husband behind in Italy while I move (mostly) to the US for work. And, as usual, I’m struggling to explain to people what I’m doing and why. (The story of my life is that there is almost no question about me to which a simple answer can [...]

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Photo Gallery: OpenCamp, Rome, March 2008

March 13, 2008

I attended OpenCamp in Rome, which was held in a mostly recovered public space, the former slaughterhouses of Rome, parts of which are interestingly decorated with graffiti.

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Italy Changing: La Dolce Vita Ain’t What It Used to Be

March 8, 2008

A few days ago I posted a message on the Expats in Italy forum about the fact that I am (partially) leaving Italy to take a job in the US. This has engendered much discussion, and has raised some points that I want to expand on. Simo, an Italian now resident in the US, wrote: [...]

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Everyday Italian: Newspaper Headlines 19

March 4, 2008

Goodbye to the widow and historic pharmacist Degradation at Bione [a local sports complex] – teams in revolt Offerings stolen from the Capucin [friars] Tragedy: Worker at Fiocchi [a factory] tries to kill himself, his mother wants to save him and dies Black Thursday on the trains and Trenitalia threatens price increases

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Everyday Italian: Newspaper Headlines 18

March 3, 2008

Vandals raid the Resinelli [a tourist area on the mountain above Lecco]: the shocking photos [note that choc = shock, not chocolate] Tax fraud: troubles for Sergio Longoni Free gift: the volume “In dialect you say it this way” Sting: garbage tax goes up 30% for homes, shops, garages, and warehouses Lecco ever more expensive: [...]

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Mad at Italy

March 3, 2008

Is it possible to be angry with a whole country? At the moment, I am furious with Italy. It was never particularly my dream to live in Italy. I ended up here because I married an Italian, he got a job here, and it seemed like the logical thing to do at the time. When [...]

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Image of the Day

March 2, 2008

Sometimes Google’s news-finding algorithm doesn’t quite get it right. The photo (which turns out to be from the announcement of a local theater production of “Kiss Me, Kate”) puts a rather odd spin on this piece of corporate news from Sun.

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Everyday Italian: Newspaper Headlines 17

March 2, 2008

Mar, 2008 Lecco – Minors mistreated, three arrests Dervio – The students plant trees “Massacred” with blows his two children: arrested [massacrato di botte means severely beaten, but not literally massacred] Sells her shop to cure her sick child in Canada Lecchese [resident of Lecco] donates bone marrow and refuses a reward of 700 thousand [...]

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