Sun Microsystems

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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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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DTrace and ZBall

January 12, 2012

Another bit of Solaris history with Bryan Cantrill.

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Solaris History: The Marker Game

December 1, 2011

The things engineers invent to unwind at the office… Bryan Cantrill demonstrates the Marker Game that he and Jeff Bonwick used to play in a conference room in MPK 17. Special guest appearance by Bonwick himself, the world Marker Game champion.

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Illumos Meetup

June 16, 2011

Photos from last night’s Illumos meetup – a reunion of many of the old Sun gang. Yes, video follows!

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The Faces of Sun

November 29, 2010

I’ve been meaning for a long time to make a video tribute to the amazing people of Sun Microsystems. It has been my honor and privilege to work with some of the finest minds in this industry (or any industry), many of whom I also got to film at Sun conferences and other events worldwide. [...]

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Geek Humor

October 1, 2010

Storagetek’s Broomfield, CO, headquarters was abundantly decorated with artwork. After Sun acquired the company, everyone moved to Sun’s BRM campus, and eventually the Storagetek building was closed down. The artwork appeared overnight in the BRM offices. I don’t know who decided where to put it all, but our floor (engineering) got lots of photographs of [...]

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Geek Humor

July 26, 2010

I don’t know who drew this gem. It’s been on a whiteboard at Sun’s Menlo Park campus for quite a while, but soon will be no longer…

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Familiar Faces

March 24, 2010

^ the Indian editions of some very familiar books, on sale at Tech Days 2010 in Hyderabad.

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James Gosling in India

March 23, 2010

^ Hyderabad, India The geeks shall inherit? Yay!

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A New Dawn

January 21, 2010

Colorado sunrise this morning (yes, I was up very early).

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Ben Rockwood & Deirdré Straughan: A Conversation at LISA ’09

December 10, 2009

download for iPod A conversation about LISA, conferences in general, open source communities, Solaris, OpenSolaris, Sun culture, Sun personalities, the value of video, social media, the old days on CompuServe, supporting customers online, why video instead of text blogs, measuring online impact, Facebook, Twitter, bit.ly, the next big thing in social media, technical education…

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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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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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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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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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The Twitter Diaries: 2009-11-01: Broomfield

November 1, 2009

^ big snowstorm this week; this picture of the Sun courtyard was taken on Friday, Oct 30th today (Oct 25th) is the birthday of the beloved stepmom who walked out of my life 25 years ago. Happy birthday, Nancy, wherever you are. # background: Countries Beginning with I » A Missing Mother http://bit.ly/2BEezb # The [...]

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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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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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