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   It was Jeff Bonwick's team which proved that the number of engineers or even developers working on a given problem is completely irrelevant: ZFS was developed by a team of, what, five people? Meanwhile, how many people are working on
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   If enough people move to where it's cheaper, it causes a housing shortage, and then the price of housing rises, following increased demand. There are finite number of places where housing is cheaper. At the same time, we multiply and m
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   There is no reason to believe this time is different. There is one major reason this time is different: it requires a highly educated workforce. In practice, since there are so many unemployed and so many underpaid, it means that most o
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   Yes, lots of questions, irrelevant to this topic but as a huge fan of illumos and SmartOS very much relevant to me, personally.
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   Yes it would.
6. 1476.▲
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   Because a) I value my privacy and b) name shouldn't matter - only whether the argument, assertion, or the idea is correct or not. Sadly, you and I have never met. I've got questions for you, and then some.
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   I have never been affiliated with either Sun Microsystems or the Oracle corporation, if that is what you're getting at. And I am not yet prepared to disclose the name that the system gave me on the Internet - because Internet never,
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   Thanks, was wondering if this came from a specific language pain or not. No language pain with DTrace, but having to know kernel structs put a damper on things like you wouldn't believe. The problem is this: suppose you've just
9. 1479.▲
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   did either of you write DTrace scripts? I did, some, in the beginning (circa 2006): I was stymied mostly by the realization that deep, deep knowledge of the kernel structures was required to make use of DTrace (I wasn't working as
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    That makes even less sense , and reeks even more of irrationality: if they're using JVM, a Solaris based system like SmartOS would be the best choice - Solaris is where Java is developed, after all. It's like buying a NetApp appl
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    A more interesting metric might be months of pay back time. $1,800-$2,500 seems like an arbitrary number you made up. It is an arbitrary number I made up! Which part of that is how much I am willing to pay requires additional clarific
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    So I used the calculator on Tesla's web site, in my case, I'd want 3 powerwalls and I'd want a solar installation to complement it: $18,000 USD. That's still way too high: $1,800 - $2,500 would have been acceptable. That
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    I think we both got lost, didn't we? (:-)) So let's rewind: It is a really nice language, although missing a few things that BPF can do that DTrace can't (like saving and retrieving stacks), so it'd need to be enhanced.
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    dtrace(1) itself is compiled from C into an ELF binary executable. % file `which dtrace` /usr/sbin/dtrace: ELF 32-bit LSB executable 80386 Version 1, dynamically linked, stripped The DTrace language, D, is interprete
15. 1485.▲
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    Yeah but if that's the case, it's really bad. There is no place for politics in computer science or information technology.
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    What? That doesn't make any sense. How is dtrace(1) built on illumos, then?
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    Thank you for the information. How does one install it, if it's on an optical medium? I don't have a CD-ROM or a DVD drive on my Amiga, only network and NFS.
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    Linux is not my favorite operating system, but it seems like we're stuck with it. It only seems that way. We're never stuck with something as long as we don't accept it. One other factor is at play which works against Linux
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    So why didn't they just deploy FreeBSD across the entire server park? That would also give you DTrace again...
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    What would stop one from enhancing the DTrace in illumos further? That is licensed under the CDDL, and Adam has made several enhancements to DTrace lately, and if my memory serves me correctly, Bryan fixed a couple of bugs in it recently as
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    Much less work than messing with Docker, Mesos, Kubernetes, Chef, Puppet, Rkt, Salt, Ansible, cfengine, etcetera... it's much, much simpler to build OS packages and keep the metadata needed to build them under revision control (git, Me
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    So what are you bugging shykes for? All I did was ask a question. Is critical thinking, even just asking questions, undesirable now, unless someone is being praised to high heavens? Is that what we're down to now? "ha! someone p
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    As I wrote previously, the question is for the founder of Docker and him alone, but since you volunteered your opinion, I am extremely pleased to inform you that I love making OS packages and performing configuration management at scale tha
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    Docker founder here. Great! There is one question I would like to have answered, by you and you alone: if I'm using SmartOS, and therefore zones, and all my applications and configurations are packaged into OS packages, and I use img
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    Reading through the trove of documentation, I'm so confused: if I have a Motorola 68030 accelerated Amiga, what is the latest AmigaOS which will run on my hardware (A1200)?
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    The most valuable things in the talk were linkerd and BGP (especially configuration of Zebra and linkerd), unfortunately both were only glossed over briefly. Has linkerd been ported over to SmartOS? (So far I haven't found anything say
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    That sounds a lot like the United States. Most western european countries function like that too. It should be that way everywhere, but it is not! Infuriating!!!
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    As far as I know, all states in the United States union have a photographic identification card which is almost identical to the driver's license, except that it is not one. Some examples: http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT&#x2
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    I am not in France; there are other countries in Europe which have the byzantine stamp system of paying for fees; several of them in fact. As far as Japanese bureaucracy goes, I've only had the "pleasure" of dealing with the
30. 1500.▲
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    "Registration renewal", as it is known in the United States, is the equivalent of renewing one's motor vehicle and license plate registration in one - Fahrzeugausweis / prometna dozvola / etcetera. This is trivial t