Archived Technical Videos

In early 2010, with the “change in control” of Sun Microsystems (to Oracle) imminent, I started a big job of moving the hundreds of technical videos I had spread among three different Sun media hosting sites. Oracle didn’t want them (and soon afterwards deleted dozens, without warning and with no hope of recovery). One of the… Continue reading Archived Technical Videos

The 3rd Annual Solaris Family Reunion

I have been meaning for some time to write a follow-up to my series about my experience of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems. This yet-to-be-written piece, titled “The Sun Diaspora”, may someday contain deep thoughts about how dispersing all that amazing Sun engineering talent may prove to have been a watershed event for the entire… Continue reading The 3rd Annual Solaris Family Reunion

A Twitter Campaign: Social Media Marketing for Tech

One of the things I do in my job (and my life) is social media. I’ve been communicating online since 1982, and have tried just about every major online communications tool to come along during that time, starting with CompuServe chat and BBSes in the early 80s. I began using Twitter in 2007; it has grown to be an important… Continue reading A Twitter Campaign: Social Media Marketing for Tech

Technical Videos

Note: Most of these videos have migrated to my YouTube channel. The links below are often broken. This is an up-to-date listing of nearly 400 technical videos I have been involved in, one way or another, in the six years I’ve been working with Solaris, illumos, SmartOS, and related people, technologies, and companies. They are… Continue reading Technical Videos

Linux Performance Analysis and Tools: Brendan Gregg’s Talk at SCaLE 11x

Linux Performance Analysis and Tools from brendangregg Our friends at SCaLE invited Brendan Gregg to speak (again) this year, and he was happy to return. He developed and delivered a fantastic talk; I filmed, edited, published, wrote a blog post for Joyent, and ran a quick-n-dirty social media campaign (Twitter and HackerNews) to drive traffic to it… Continue reading Linux Performance Analysis and Tools: Brendan Gregg’s Talk at SCaLE 11x