Fishpong and yes, the iPhone camera sucks

Compare photos of fishpong taken from Jason’s iPhone:

and my $100 Sony Ericsson W810i:

Bryan and Adam are pretty serious players. Which for a game of 8 man, two table ping pong, I think you pretty much have to be.

Posted at Aug 15th | 5 comments | Filed Under: fun, games, joyent, solaris read on

DTrace for NetApp? Please!

Rajeev asks Would DTrace make sense on ONTAP?” and concludes that yes, it would. I couldn’t agree more. DTrace is game changer, and with ONTAP GX being based on FreeBSD one can imagine that a DTrace port is at least *possible* in GX. Let’s assume it’s doable in GX, but not in “traditional” ONTAP. I [...]

Posted at Jul 30th | 7 comments | Filed Under: netapp, solaris, storage, zfs read on

Joyent Vancouver Meetup tomorrow night

I’m hosting a little meetup event Tuesday night (July 31) for “friends of Joyent“, which loosely translated, means “anyone who likes the web and macs and solaris and stuff”. So if you want to get your geek on while enjoying a free beverage at the fabulously chill Chill Winston then go sign up for the [...]

Posted at Jul 30th | no comments | Filed Under: fun, joyent read on

A quick look at paravirtualization support in VMware and Linux

I’ve used VMware for many years. It’s the best virtual machine technology out there IMO, so I’ve been following VMware’s take on paravirtualization with great interest. In theory paravirtualization (where the guest kernel knows that it’s running on a hypervisor, not “real” hardware) is faster than pure hardware virtualization. The industry is fairly obsessed with [...]

Posted at Jul 7th | 1 comment | Filed Under: linux, redhat, solaris, sysadmin, ubuntu, vmware read on

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