Colorado sunrise this morning (yes, I was up very early).
Tag Archives: Sun Microsystems
Ben Rockwood & Deirdré Straughan: A Conversation at LISA ’09
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…
Brendan Gregg at FROSUG, Oct 2009
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.
top: social media in action – you can see the video stream going out on the right
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How ZFS Really Gets Done
George Wilson and Jeff Bonwick
Of the comestible items which fuel engineers, the only thing missing in this picture is caffeine.
How Do You Measure Snow?
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 outside table.”
Well, okay, we have lots of outside tables at Sun’s Broomfield campus, but they all seem to have accumulated different amounts of snow:
This one (shown at far left in the photo above) had about 5 inches:
This one looked more promising:
And, in fact:
Thirteen inches! (That’s a fourteen-inch ruler.)
So what am I supposed to do here? Take an average?
