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Show at Singapore

There are some circuits that are the great ones, where we can see who is who. In my opinion, like Monaco, Silverstone, SPA, and now Singapore. Senna was master on the first three. Singapore saw: N.E.R.D, Beyoncé, Simple Minds, Lindsay Lohan, and many others... but the great show was ...
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GREP: Trivia

On the server (OpenSolaris 2009.06)... time /usr/bin/grep XXX /tmp/xxx.txt > /dev/null real    0m0.039s user    0m0.031s sys     0m0.008s time /usr/gnu/bin/grep XXX /tmp/xxx.txt > /dev/null real    1m22.448s user    1m22.364s sys     0m0.027s And... /usr/gnu/bin/grep --version grep (GNU grep) 2.5 Copyright 1988, 1992-1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY ...
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BTRFS Internals (part #1)

Just kidding... ;-) This is a really nice article pointed out by Iban Nieto. The comparison with ZFS is (like agent Smith was used to say): Inevitable. Reading the article, seems like Linus Torvalds is already using btrfs, and i do remember this mail from him in the GNU/Linux Kernel mailing ...
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IO on demand…

Hello there, in these days where 'cloud' is more important than 'sun' (what a terrible joke ;-), storage seems to be the big problem to solve. It's easy to think about memory on demand, CPU, network, and storage capacity. But that is just one dimension of storage, ...
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ZIO comment…

Every time i'm studying and trying (really hard) to understand what these hackers write, i meet this: 2037 /* 2038 * ========================================================================== 2039 * Error rank. Error are ranked in the order 0, ENXIO, ECKSUM, EIO, other. 2040 ...
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FMA Messages WIKI way…

Almost perfect!! Wow, that was a really, really nice surprise! I do like all the new stuff from Solaris 10/OpenSolaris, and i say that in every opportunity, like now. I did write some posts about FMA, like this one... but one problem about the fmdump messages IMHO, was the fact that ...
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HP LeftHand Event

Today i was invited to the HP LeftHand Event here @SP. It's always nice to see and hear about news on the Storage world, and i really like HP hardware. I do remember the first Windows Servers i did manage, all running on HP hardware, ECC memories... old times. No ...
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