September 2009

How to Survive as an Aussie Kernel Engineer

September 29, 2009

Brendan Gregg speaks at the Kernel Conference, Australia – Brisbane, July 2009. download for iPod

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OpenSolaris Security: Q&A

September 28, 2009

Q&A session during the OpenSolaris Security Birds of a Feather Session at OSCON, July 2009. download for iPod

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OpenSolaris Security: Security and Solaris Containers

September 28, 2009

Glenn Faden presents during the OpenSolaris Security Birds of a Feather Session at OSCON, July 2009.

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OpenSolaris Security: Solaris Privileges

September 28, 2009

Scott Rotondo presents during the OpenSolaris Security Birds of a Feather Session at OSCON, July 2009.

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OpenSolaris Security: The Cryptographic Framework

September 28, 2009

OpenSolaris Security Birds of a Feather Session at OSCON, July 2009 – Valerie Fenwick presents on the Cryptographic Framework.

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ZFS the Next Word

September 28, 2009

Keynote speech from Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore at Kernel Conference Australia 2009, 15-17 July. Held at Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Australia. filmed & edited by Deirdré Straughan

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The Twitter Diaries: 2009-09-27: CO

September 27, 2009

@ben I’m nearly finished with “Anathem” – wow! in reply to ben # using TwitterKarma to see who’s following me, try to guess why, decide who to follow back. Those who post nothing but links & RTs bore me. # oh, interesting. Acquaintance’s FB account seems to have been hacked by a scammer who’s asking [...]

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Jack Adams Interviews George Wilson on ZFS

September 23, 2009

Talking about using and developing ZFS, at OSCON 2009. filmed & edited by Deirdré Straughan

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The Twitter Diaries: 2009-09-20: CO

September 20, 2009

lazy Sunday morning in bed, enjoying the fog outside (unusual in these parts). Harbinger of a move to San Francisco? # any Arabic speakers? Is this really an Egyptian novelty song about Italy’s Berlusconi? http://bit.ly/8vRsO # RT @angadsingh: http://bit.ly/3dhnVF An article on Larry Ellisons’ effective right hand and driving force behind the corporate giant Oracle [...]

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Gallery: Whakatane, New Zealand

September 19, 2009

The statue of a woman on the rock commemorates a local legend for which the town is named. “Whakatane” means (roughly) “does the work of a man” – she single-handedly saved a big war canoe from slipping out to sea. Or something.

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Videoblogging for Sun: Numbers Update

September 18, 2009

25 months: how long I’ve been shooting video for Sun well over 200 hours: video in the can (mostly shot by me personally) – and more constantly on the way (the photo above doesn’t show quite all the tapes I’ve got – some were out for editing) 150 hours: video edited, compressed, and published online  [...]

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Testing Applications with VirtualBox Software

September 17, 2009

Brian Leonard presents at CommunityOne, San Francisco, June 2009. download for iPod

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Observing Applications with DTrace

September 17, 2009

Please see a newer version of this presentation here.

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Measuring Performance with Sun Studio Tools

September 17, 2009

This session is intended for experienced developers who do not necessarily have experience with performance tools. The attendees will learn how to use the Sun Studio software performance tools. Marty Itzkowitz presents at CommunityOne, San Francisco, June 2009. download for iPod

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OpenSolaris Secure Deployment

September 17, 2009

In this session for deployers, Christoph Schuba presents important problem areas and teaches how the OpenSolaris OS features solve these problems. download for iPod

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Solaris Cluster for High Availability and Disaster Recovery

September 17, 2009

An overview of Solaris Cluster, Sun’s premiere software solution for high availability and disaster recovery in data centers, metro clusters, and across unlimited distances with Geographic Edition.

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Running Open HA Cluster with VirtualBox

September 17, 2009

Thorsten Frueauf presents at the Open HA Cluster Summit, San Francisco, May 2009.

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Building a Partner Ecosystem for Sun’s xVM Portfolio

September 17, 2009

Director, xVM Solutions Engineering, presents at Sun’s HPC Consortium in Austin, Texas, November 2008. To view the video with subtitles, press Play, then use the Captions menu in the upper left corner to select the language of your choice for subtitles.

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Sun xVM Ops Center – Automating Lifecycle Management of HPC

September 16, 2009

Overview of Sun xVM Ops Center system management software by Prasad Pai of Sun Microsystems xVM Engineering, at Sun’s HPC Consortium, Dresden Germany, June 2008. filmed by Deirdre Straughan

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Becoming a ZFS Ninja

September 16, 2009

Ben Rockwood speaks at CommunityOne, June 2009, San Francisco. Part 2 download part 1 in m4v format download part 2 in m4v format filmed & edited by Deirdré Straughan

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