October 2009

Kernel Conference Australia: Panel Discussion on ZFS

October 31, 2009

Part 1 download for iPod Part 2 download for iPod J Bonwick, B Moore, P Dawidek at the Kernel Conference at the Queensland Brain Institute, Brisbane, Australia, July 2009. download for iPod filmed & edited by Deirdré Straughan

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Teresa Applies Her Training

October 30, 2009

The main reason I did videoblogging training at Sun’s Menlo Park offices a couple of weeks ago (rather than at some other time) was to get my colleague Teresa Giacomini ready to film the OpenSolaris User Group meeting she ran in Dresden this week. Looks as if she handled it just fine! photo by stiefkind

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How ZFS Really Gets Done

October 30, 2009

George Wilson and Jeff Bonwick Of the comestible items which fuel engineers, the only thing missing in this picture is caffeine.

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Alex Barclay (LIBR) On Medical Imaging Architecture

October 30, 2009

Alex Barclay from The Laureate Institute of Brain Research talks about how to build a systems architecture to support next generation medical imaging. download for iPod filmed & edited by Deirdré Straughan

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Stephen Tyree & Alex Barclay of the Laureate Institute for Brain Research

October 30, 2009

Stephen Tyree and Alex Barclay of the Laureate Institute for Brain Research discuss image processing and data storage needs for brain studies. filmed & edited by Deirdré Straughan

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How Do You Measure Snow?

October 28, 2009

We’re having a big snowstorm in Colorado today, so I have been discussing with some local colleagues on Twitter how to measure accumulations. I haven’t lived around snow much (til I moved to Colorado last year), so I haven’t done this much before. @vdotw advised “Measure [with a ruler] at a flat spot, like an [...]

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Oracle E-Business Suite on Sun Blades

October 26, 2009

Dave Caplan demos at Oracle Open World 2009. filmed & edited by Deirdré Straughan

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Porting USB HID Device Drivers Between Linux and OpenSolaris

October 26, 2009

Download for iPod Max Bruning presents at the Kernel Conference, Australia, July 2009.

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x86 Fast Reboot and Panic Reboot

October 26, 2009

Sherry Moore speaks at the Kernel Conference Australia, July 2009. download for iPod filmed by Deirdré Straughan

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The Twitter Diaries: 2009-10-25: San Francisco, CO

October 25, 2009

a team-building exercise that totally makes my day: http://bit.ly/3VS0dm # for the first time in my life, a pair of glasses broke on me. Now I really look like a geek with the lens taped to the frame. # “With the swirling violins, fighting and constant cries for liberty, it’s like spending 2 hours inside [...]

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Woodstock Class of ’81: Graduation

October 25, 2009
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GHC09: Women in the Flat Connected World

October 25, 2009

“Globalization has forced companies to create new processes to empower distributed teams to collaborate. It could mean that individuals have to travel for longer periods of time across the globe, work at odd hours, and work from home or make other adjustments to accommodate a new working lifestyle. Panelists will discuss and give their perspective [...]

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Worldwide Woodstock Day: Shadows

October 24, 2009

Today was Worldwide Woodstock Day, a celebration of the international boarding school in India that I and many other devoted alumni attended. Alumni groups gathered in all corners of the globe, which for me meant a Nepali/Indian restaurant in Arvada, CO. Saw one old friend I hadn’t seen since I graduated, another I have seen [...]

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Woodstock School Class of ’81 – 9th Grade

October 24, 2009
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Optimizing and Managing Simulation Runs with Intel Flash and Oracle and MSC Software

October 23, 2009

Dale Layfield and Larry McIntosh at Oracle Open World 2009. > filmed & edited by Deirdré Straughan

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Videoblogging Tips: Dressing for the Camera

October 23, 2009

Another snippet from the videoblogging training I did at Sun HQ.

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Protecting Oracle Applications with Built-In Solaris Security Features

October 20, 2009

Christoph Schuba at Oracle Open World 2009. filmed & edited by Deirdré Straughan

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Videoblogging Tips: Filming Engineers

October 19, 2009

Yet another in the videoblogging tips series: how to get good footage of engineers who may not be accustomed to being filmed.

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The Twitter Diaries: 2009-10-18: San Francisco

October 18, 2009

alarm was set for 5, so of course I woke up at 4:30. And of course I got to the airport too early, and of course the flight is delayed. # Colleague on the same plane going to #oow09 to demo something that I know @reiger wants to see. I’ll get video for you ; [...]

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Videoblogging Tips: Camera Motion

October 18, 2009

I trained four of my Sun colleagues in videoblogging, and, for practice, they filmed me talking. Some of the resulting video seemed useful, so here it is (in bite-sized pieces).

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