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Ubuntu and kids (part II)…

Well, once more was time to update the kids' desktop. And now i see that did pass two years and i did not solve this 'desktop' problem yet... In the last post my intention was change it to OpenSolaris, but i really like Ubuntu and GNU/Linux, and i think is just ...
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Missing some racing action…

Chinese Grand Prix (Mclaren Race 1.0b): 0809: SAFETY CAR IS IN,RACE HAS RESTARTED. JENSON NOW SECOND, LEWIS 14TH AFTER HIS PIT STOP. 0817: LEWIS FIGHTING HIS WAY BACK THROUGH THE TRAFFIC NOW - HE'S PAST BARRICHELLO FOR 11TH. 0820: LEWIS RACING WITH THE REDBULLS FOR NINTH AND TENTH. 0820: LEWIS PASSES WEBBER FOR TENTH ...
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ZFS Internals (part #10)

PLEASE BE AWARE THAT ANY INFORMATION YOU MAY FIND HERE MAY BE INACCURATE, AND COULD INCLUDE TECHNICAL INACCURACIES, TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS, AND EVEN SPELLING ERRORS. From the MANUAL page: The zdb command is used by support engineers to diagnose failures and gather statistics. Since the ZFS file ...
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Blogs and Feeds

Hello there... Today i was doing something that was on my todo list for a long time. When i did start to blog, my intention was not (just) talk about technical stuff, but just write about evertything i did like, or do not like: music, movies, politics, and a lot of ...
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Oracle Open Storage Forum

These days i was invited to do a presentation about Open Storage and ZFS on two Oracle/Sun events here in Brazil. One in Rio de Janeiro, and another here at São Paulo. Well, it was very interesting, first because i did live in Rio de Janeiro (1998/1999), and is ...
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Silent data corruption…

Friday was funny... i had a two node cluster for test on our storage lab, and i was out of the office, delivering a presentation on Oracle Open Storage forum Wednesday/28 - Rio de Janeiro, and thursday/29 - São Paulo (more on that soon). So, a co-worker was trying ...
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Scale out!

I really like this kind of way to solve problems. I mean, is a fact of scalability, and your learn early: divide and conquer (D&C)! Here you can watch Jay Kreps discussing about the architecture, algorithms, implementation and deployment of Voldemort, a distributed storage system (a distributed key-value storage system). ...
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