Deirdre Straughan

The Twitter Diaries: January 2012

February 12, 2012

(in reverse chron order) 2012-01-31 23:40:29 DeirdreS: RT @pbeyssac: OMG! At last! RT @TechCrunch After Four Years, ZFS Finds Its Way To The Mac http://t.co/caiZVG6O http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/164493282955624449 2012-01-31 23:38:23 DeirdreS: Prophetic..? “noticed what we need to mention this morning twenty-one billion scripts it’s possible” @brendangregg http://t.co/V9Q8FtyY http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/164492755505131522 2012-01-31 23:11:31 DeirdreS: @sogrady but what have you done [...]

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Learn Italian in Song: Che Bambola!

February 4, 2012

Another classic from Fred Buscaglione ( the Italian version of this wikipedia bio is much better) Mi trovavo per la strada circa all’una e trentatrè, I found myself on the street about 1:33 L’altra notte mentre uscivo dal mio solito caffè, The other night while exiting from my usual café quando incontro un bel mammifero modello “centotrè” When [...]

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Solaris Videos

February 2, 2012

123 videos I did for Sun and later Oracle, plus a few later, can be found on my old YouTube channel.

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Videos from the illumos Meetup, January 2012

February 1, 2012

ZFS Feature Flags A new feature being introduced in illumos, presented by Chris Siden of Delphix at the illumos user group meetup sponsored by the Joyent Cloud, January 2012. ZFS Backwards Compatibility Testing with ztest Christopher Siden at the illumos user group meeting sponsored by the Joyent Cloud, January 2012. ZFS Code Comments Discussion at the illumos [...]

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YouTube Transcription FAIL

January 30, 2012

YouTube’s new, experimental automatic audio transcription still needs a lot of work. It seems to have particular difficulty with non-American accents, or with people speaking quickly – which describes most Joyent engineers! I’m sure it will improve, probably quickly, but we should keep for posterity the bizarre yet poetic discourse of a Brendan Gregg technical presentation [...]

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Using SmartOS as a Hypervisor

January 30, 2012

Robert Mustacchi’s talk at SCALE 10x. An excellent introduction to what SmartOS is and why it’s better. Want to learn more? Come meet Robert at the Joyent Cloud Meetup/Office Hours Jan 31. 5-7 pm. Beer and pizza provided! 60 minutes (playlist of 5 parts), shot and edited by Deirdré Straughan slides

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Performance Analysis: new tools and concepts from the cloud

January 30, 2012

Brendan Gregg, Lead Performance Engineer, Joyent, speaks at SCALE 10x. full slide deck 4-part playlist, total 60 mins, shot and edited by Deirdré Straughan

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Textures: Brick, Stone & Sky

January 29, 2012

stone wall ^ brick paving, Austin, Texas ^ cobbled path, Italy ^ herringbone brick path, Italy above and below: dry stone retaining wall (khud), Mussoorie, India ^ Roman wall, Italy   

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Mike Shapiro of Sun and Steve O’Grady of Redmonk

January 24, 2012

September, 2008 – filmed outside a bar in San Francisco.

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Solaris History: The Open Storage Revolution

January 24, 2012

Jeff Bonwick at SNIA SDC, Sept 2007. filmed and edited by Deirdré Straughan download (m4v)

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DTrace and ZBall

January 12, 2012

Another bit of Solaris history with Bryan Cantrill.

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Viva la Mamma? Motherhood, Menopause & Culture

January 8, 2012

I’m a US citizen, but I lived and raised my daughter Rossella (now 22) in Italy for 17 years. I left Italy in 2008 while Ross was at boarding school in India, and subsequently separated from my Italian husband (we were already geographically apart – he did not follow me to the US). My daughter is [...]

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2011 India Trip: Timeline

January 2, 2012

2011 was a rough year in many ways, but I did have a fantastic vacation in India! Here’s an outline, more detailed articles to follow (er, sometime…). Saturday, Oct 15: Depart SFO As his last piece of work before vacation, Brendan had to get that blog post out. We were actually standing in line at [...]

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My Year in Blogging – 2011

January 1, 2012

I have had a website for over ten years now. It began as an archive for the personal email newsletter I started publishing after leaving my job at Roxio – some of the 170,000 subscribers to my Roxio newsletters said they wanted to keep hearing from me, and some of them are still readers and [...]

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The Twitter Diaries: December, 2011

January 1, 2012

(in reverse chron order) DeirdreS: @milouness That would be bad news – look what a huge underground economy has done for Italy http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/152877179003342848 2011-12-30 20:52:04 DeirdreS: Passwords nightmare solved: takeaway for me: “You can’t scale a founder talking about how passionate they are.” http://twitter.com/DeirdreS/statuses/152854488523350016 2011-12-30 20:40:46 DeirdreS: @bcantrill You /had/ to get that horrible image [...]

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Learn Italian in Song: Mamma & Papa’

December 23, 2011

written, recorded and copyrighted by Alex Britti Again, it could only happen in Italy: a pop/blues singer pens a love song to his parents. Hey, papà, stammi a sentire, Hey, Dad, listen to me ti ricordi quella volta che siamo andati a pedalare Remember that time we went pedalling con le biciclette stanche, With our [...]

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Me and Tech

December 19, 2011

If you’re arriving here from Brendan’s blog post and wondering what I have to do with technology, here are some links: stuff I did at Sun Microsystems (and Oracle) technical video portfolio my current job as SmartOS Community Manager and, and I edited the DTrace book

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Italian House Numbers

December 18, 2011

House numbers in Milan and many other cities are usually standard and boring, like this: . But sometimes you find interesting and unusual ones, so I’ve decided to collect them.    

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Italian Fountains

December 18, 2011

Not every Italian town is famously picturesque, but, even in those that are not, the attentive observer can find a wealth of beautiful detail and decoration. (I’ve already mentioned the doorknockers.) So here’s a collection of heads on fountains from all over Italy (not necessarily dull ones). ^ These three are all in Chiavenna ^ Varenna. [...]

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San Pellegrino: The Remains of the Grand Hotel

December 18, 2011

A relic of the heyday of San Pellegrino, the Grand Hotel was (quite literally) a watering place for the wealthy, in the early 1900s when health spas with natural mineral springs were all the rage. The hotel is an Art Nouveau treasure, built in 1905, but now sadly going to ruin, its fixtures gradually being auctioned [...]

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