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You think this is awesome search YouTube for his talks and prepare to be blown away. Incredible engineer and funny guy.

• nazri1 10y ago
  One thing that I learned from him and have never forgotten is that you can reduce a harddisk (the spindle kind) performance just by screaming at it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4
  • pablode 10y ago
    This is awesome! Reminds me of how "IBM Tech Uses Hard Drives to Predict Earthquakes" [1]. And then it's just one guy screaming at the HDDs. [1] http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2371337,00.asp http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2371337,00.asp
  • sdiepend 10y ago
    When it happens in a datacenter: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/a-loud-sound-just-shut-down-a-banks-data-center-for-10-hours http://motherboard.vice.com/read/a-loud-sound-just-shut-down...
  • SEJeff 10y ago
    Yup that is what Brendan is famous/infamous for and it is pretty hilarious. His talks at conferences like say Monitorama are always equal parts amusing and deeply technical. I've been lucky enough to learn a ton from his work on pcc / perf to find a DTrace equiv on Linux.