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Olhar Digital III (English)

These days two of my kids did participate on a television show about their experience in GNU/Linux. The program is in Brazilian Portuguese, but I did find this youtube version with english subtitles. So, if you want to watch... ps.: I did think they were learning MS Windows at school... Now I ...
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Storage 7410 RFE

Hello there! I did a post about IO on demand some time ago, and that post was about some aspects i think we need to have more power on the storage land. I think the 7410 (fishworks) is a great step in the Unified Storage Model, but in the same ...
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Olhar Digital II (Filhos do Linux)

O programa de hoje do Olhar Digital tem um fato muito interessante sobre minha formação profissional, e sobre o GNU/Linux. Eu já trabalhei com outros sistemas operacionais que não eram 'Unix like', e inclusive já administrei servidores Windows NT e etc. Mas depois que comecei a trabalhar com GNU/Linux, minha ...
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Olhar Digital

A really nice experience! It's always good when we can help, and my job was help some new users of the Ubuntu GNU/Linux Distro in this television show (Brazilian Portuguese). Basically, the users had two difficulties: 1 - Install the firefox flash plugin; 2 - Install a MSN client; The ...
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OpenSolaris as a Storage Platform

'The OpenSolaris Operating System as a storage operating system - everything from file sharing, file systems, volume managers, data services, and etc. Features like: ZFS, NFS, pNFS, Shared QFS, Storage Archive Manager, Honeycomb fixed content management, Availability Suite, iSCSI, etc'. That is our LinkedIn Group, where i think we ...
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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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