Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Music - Amanda Palmer and Estradasphere

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I listen to a lot of music, and the really good stuff gets played over and over again while I'm driving. I also think while I'm driv...
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Monday, September 29, 2008

Gene Saunders RIP

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A good friend and well respected colleague from Sun is no more... More info on Geoff Arnold's blog For the last few years a group of us ...
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Tutorial at LISA08 San Diego Nov 9th

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I'm giving my usual performance tools and tuning for Solaris/Linux class on Sunday 9th Nov in San Diego.
Monday, August 11, 2008

Looking for a star/ninja/guru developer....

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I'm hiring, looking for someone who regularly gets a "wow" response from co-workers: As a key engineer/ researcher for our web...
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008

CMG08 Draft Agenda - Las Vegas in December

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CMG just published the draft agenda for their annual conference on their website . This year I will be on a panel with other Michelson Award...
Monday, July 28, 2008

Skype Downloads Approach One Billion

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About eighteen months ago I wrote a blog post about Skype as it approached 500 million downloads. They have continued at around a million ...
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Monday, July 14, 2008

Enhanced headroom plot in R

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For some reason I seem to find time to write code in R when I'm on an airplane. The last two trips I made resulted in significant enhan...

iPhone 2.0 upgrade and applications - Pandora

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I waited until Saturday evening to attempt an upgrade on my iPhone, and it completed with no problems, so I guess Apple fixed their site and...
Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Variable Power and Performance in Enterprise Servers

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Nice Infoworld article looking at the power savings from variable speed CPUs in Enterprise servers running Windows and Linux. This feature ...
Friday, May 16, 2008

Mobile disruptions and going mainstream

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VC thoughts via Peter Cranstone From Vinod Knosla: The mobile phone will be a mainstream personal computer. From Roger McNamee: Betting on s...
Friday, May 09, 2008

Speaking at UK CMG TEC Conference - May 19-21st 2008

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UKCMG TEC 2008 is near Northampton in the UK. I'm giving two of the same presentations as I gave at the US CMG, the enterprise version ...
Saturday, May 03, 2008

Usenix 08 - Tutorials and Invited Paper - Boston June 23-27

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I'm giving the two tutorials that I have been presenting at CMG the last few years, but at Usenix in Boston. The tutorials are the lat...
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Monday, April 28, 2008

XE Toolkit 1.2 - new portable performance tools from Rich Pettit

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Rich just updated the portable Java based XE tookit, it even runs on mainframes now :-) Rich (with some contributions from me) wrote many ve...
Thursday, March 27, 2008

Patent on Performance and Capacity Planning

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Here is another patent that I filed while working at Sun. System and method for generating a probability distribution of computer performanc...

Patents on Peer to Peer Trading Platform

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While working at eBay Research Labs I did some work using Skype that resulted in four patents in the area of P2P trading and reputation syst...
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Sunday, March 16, 2008

BIL Podcast: Garrett Lisi - Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything

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I published a BIL podcast from the recordings I made, first talk is my favorite, particle physics explained by Garrett Lisi http://web.mac....
Monday, March 03, 2008

BIL - recording an excellent adventure

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The closing slide of BIL by Garrett Lisi Two days of intense expansion of my horizons, a self-organizing conference, and I am left holding a...
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Friday, February 29, 2008

Millicomputing at BIL this weekend

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I'm presenting (and generally helping out) at the BIL un-conference this weekend in Monterey. I have posted some slides on my Millicomp...
Thursday, February 28, 2008

Hiring a researcher at Netflix

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Here is the job specification for a research oriented position working for me at Netflix. We are looking for a very experienced engineer who...
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Emerging Communications Conference - EComm March 12-14

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I'm presenting at the EComm conference on the subject of Millicomputing on the morning of March 14th. There is a Homebrew Mobile Club ...