I'm fresh back from Sun near Boston, doin' the laundry and the workin' out and end of month freaking out, tracking the pay for every payment. Tomorrow I'm off to Ottawa to teach -- well, ride herd on, maybe -- the class I just saw in Boston. I'll have some power-nerd stuff to say about topics in the class soon enough, but for now I'm processing so much new schmeer my brain's full.
We finally get to cover a bit of ZFS and Trusted Extensions, or TX in the latest revision of SA-225, the leading revenue maker for instructor-led training products at Sun Education. I've been teaching it a fair amount, owing to demand, and happy to see something new to talk about.
I didn't think I would be all that interested in TX -- it's just Trusted Solaris (TSOL) with an interesting tweak using Solaris Zones -- but I am. More on that later. I did know I'd be gassed about getting into ZFS, and I'll provide some cool things to do with it once I refine those tricks into scripts, perfecting for changing out my author line with yours! If you're at all into Solaris technology, you should be too. ZFS is going to change the way we manage disks and data, a lot. Just you wait.
What's sad to me is that the engineering solution is so comically simple, I want to go back to every Stonehenge story I've ever heard and get the names of the producers and their expert advisers, and ask them, wtf? You couldn't figure this out? This man uses small rocks, sand, water, and some savvy teeter-totter work to move not just large concrete blocks, but also a barn, fully intact. With two people? You have been telling us that no one since the creation of Stonehenge has been able to unravel this engineering mystery? If that's true, you guys have been overpaid since the beginning of time.
I'll lose no small measure of respect for engineers if this 'ingenious' approach is truly unprecedented.
Be on the lookout for 3/14/15, only 8 years away!
Mar 14, 2007
Yep, it's true. That venerable cool form-factor iPod, the one gift guaranteed to get you laid -- it's just flash memory. Oh -- but with a window and a sexy sleek case, so drop that cash as fast you can! We don't want to upset the Steve!
One of Sun's tech writers, who maintains a steadfast vigil on the instructor's email alias, mentioned a blog entry showing how to upgrade a Solaris system using his iPod. It's just command line gobbledygook, but so comically simple it demonstrates the point. It's just a memory box with some codecs.
Just so you iPod owners know it: you're paying a *lot* for design and logos and beret-appeal. Welcome to the Apple world, suckers! God you brand fags make me laugh.
I have the 30 GB model, in black...