November 2009

GHC09: Becoming a Person of Influence

November 30, 2009

Still trying to catch up with my notes from the talks I attended at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in October… Jo Miller was a very popular presenter at GHC08, so was invited back this year to speak on Becoming a Person of Influence. Jo, an Aussie with a somewhat confused accent [...]

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The Twitter Diaries: 2009-11-29: Austin

November 29, 2009

awake way too early. Agitated dreams. # finally getting a newsletter out after months. This is a lot of work. # Student Party at SC09 – Un Posto al Sole http://bit.ly/5DamzT # RT @c0t0d0s0: Comstar: A while ago, i wrote a tutorial about using iSCSI in Opensolaris and Solaris 10. While the t… http://bit.ly/6YTcaX # [...]

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Birthday Portrait

November 28, 2009

After way too much to eat and drink at Fogo de Chao in Austin (as my colleague Tirthankar says of churrasca: “It’s a meat festival in your mouth!” We persuaded him that it wasn’t a good idea to say that too loudly in public…) For the family files: here’s my brother Ian, me, and Ross.

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Woodstock School Class of ’81 and Others, in 1981

November 27, 2009
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Visualizing DTrace: Sun Storage 7000 Analytics

November 24, 2009

Bryan Cantrill keynote at LISA ’09. I did not film this, but I directed it (via cellphone from a hotel room: “Zoom in on the speaker! Zoom! I don’t want the whole room, I can’t see anything!”)

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Debugging and Diagnosing Interesting OpenSolaris Kernel Problems

November 23, 2009

Pramod Batni presents at the Kernel Conference Australia, July 2009. download for iPod

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Student Party at SC09

November 22, 2009

^ attendees filling in surveys As sponsors of the SC09 Broader Engagement initiative, and because we gave such a great party last year,  we were asked to sponsor a party again this year for students attending SC09. For a number of reasons we weren’t able to commit to this until the last minute, so thanks [...]

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The Twitter Diaries: 2009-11-22: Portland

November 22, 2009

^ Portland autumn RT @italylogue: Just had a fantabulous dinner at Ping in Old Town Portland with @DeirdreS & the husband. – definitely wonderful! Thanks! # oh, great. I have a video to publish, and our blogging platform is down. # Video: Brendan Gregg on DTrace | Sun Learning eXchange http://bit.ly/2vusEk # waiting to finish [...]

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Brendan Gregg on DTrace

November 20, 2009

Brendan Gregg at the Kernel Conference Australia, July 2009. (Sorry this is truncated – we lost audio at the end. Filmed by someone else (I had to leave the conference early to get to another conference), edited by me. panel session recorded on UStream.tv:

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The Making of “Shouting in the Datacenter”

November 16, 2009

The Making of Shouting in the Datacenter. Part of Brendan Gregg‘s Little Shop of Performance Horrors presentation at the Front Range OpenSolaris User Group meeting Oct 29, 2009.

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The Twitter Diaries: 2009-11-15: Portland OR

November 15, 2009

@bklein34 sometime I will have to go to a game with you to try to experience it through the eyes of a real fan. Then I might get it. in reply to bklein34 # @vitoriosassi wish I was going with you! Tho it’s a little early in the day here to be thinking about churrasca… [...]

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Woodstock School Class of ’81 and Others, in 1980

November 14, 2009
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Brendan Gregg at FROSUG, Oct 2009

November 11, 2009

^ social media in action: you can see the video stream going out on the right On October 29th, Brendan Gregg spoke at the Front Range OpenSolaris User Group meeting on “Little Shop of Performance Horrors” (a Halloween theme). Yes, we taped it. All photos from this set:

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ZFS in the Trenches: Ben Rockwood at LISA ’09

November 11, 2009

Ben Rockwood of Joyent at LISA ’09. filmed & edited by Deirdré Straughan

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Rowr!

November 8, 2009

We didn’t actually visit the National Air & Space Museum today – we were just there to see “Where the Wild Things Are” at the Imax theater. But we had some time, so I took a couple of photos.

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The Twitter Diaries: 2009-11-08: Baltimore

November 8, 2009

^ Ben Rockwood’s BoF session on “ZFS in the Trenches” at LISA ’09. at DIA. So what else is new? # What a cruddy old plane. Why dud I choose United? # @davewiner the nice thing about Twittef is, if soneone is boring, you can just quit following. Dunno why anyone wd bother to bitch [...]

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Social Media Production: LISA ’09

November 6, 2009

I’m sitting in a hotel room in Baltimore, listening to a meeting while monitoring the live stream of Bryan Cantrill‘s presentation at LISA ’09. As you can (partly) see on my screen, I’ve been using the video blog, Twitter and irc (#opensolaris) to let people know this is available. Which has resulted in 26 people [...]

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Little Shop of Performance Horrors

November 6, 2009

Brendan Gregg speaks at FROSUG (Front Range OpenSolaris User Group) on Oct 29, 2009. Download Part 1 for iPod. Part 2 Download Part 2 for iPod. Part 3 Download Part 3 for iPod. filmed & edited by Deirdré Straughan

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ZFS, Cache and Flash

November 4, 2009

Adam Leventhal of Fishworks, at the Open Storage Summit 2009. download for iPod filmed & edited by Deirdré Straughan

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Woodstock School Class of ’81 and Others, ~1979

November 3, 2009
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