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ps pipe grep: episode 10 (Have mercy)

By David Young 12 February 07

Ben, Jason, special guest Jeff (sftpdrive), and Dave talk about Accelerator speed, twitter.com implementation and what the service does and how it is different than dodgeball.com, virtualization platforms (with the introduction of Linux KVM, OpenVZ, Xen, VMWare, Solaris zones/containers, Parallels), and topics surrounding the launch of Microsoft Vista.

ps pipe grep.

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Here’s a non-iTunes RSS feed.

This week’s music: Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins from the album Rabbit Fur Coat.

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  1. So I wanted to take a look at twitter since it’s mentioned in the podcast.

    I went to the site, click on a link found on the front page and received a “500: Internal Service Error”.

    Then I noticed to no matter what link I clicked on I received the same error.

    So I took a screenshot.

    http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/1750/twitterhn1.jpg

    FWIW, this occurred around 10:00 CST.

    — Brad    646 days ago    #

  2. I love the last 30 seconds of the podcast.

    Another great episode.

    — Brad    646 days ago    #

  3. @Brad: we don’t run twitter.com. But we can assure you that those 500s are coming at you at the highest speed possible. :) They may have been updating the site. Happens. Seems to be working for me now. Great stuff. Please check it out again.

    — David Young    646 days ago    #

  4. Awesome show guys, I enjoy all of them :). I listened to them on cmas break and the media temple stuff cracked me up.

    — bwb    646 days ago    #

  5. At the tail end of the podcast Jeff mentioned that he would like a 40GB unit that can be plugged into a system and that would boot OS X with all his apps and data.

    Well such a thing actually exists (except for the OS X part sadly):

    http://www.mojopac.com/

    You install the software on any USB storage device (iPod, stick, phone) and when you plug it in you enter your username and password and your desktop is loaded.

    — David Magda    646 days ago    #

  6. Brad brings up a interesting point about web sites being down.

    I believe many people think when a web site is down, it’s the fault of the hosting provider – though many of the times it is not.

    Most of the times, it caused by maintenance or other such activities the web site owner is performing.

    — Greg    646 days ago    #

  7. Is Joyent currently, or will, use the optimized Solaris AMP stack for AMD provided by SUN?

    http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/amp/index.html

    — Brad    645 days ago    #

  8. @David

    Mojopac is pretty neat. Not precisely what I had in mind, but close.

    — Jeff    645 days ago    #

  9. I can not get enough of Jenny Lewis. Excellent choice.

    — Jon Shea    645 days ago    #

  10. Your iTunes RSS feed seems to be kaput.

    — Mark Adams    645 days ago    #

  11. @ Brad, the optimized solaris AMP stack is “built using Sun Studio™ 11 Compiler using the -xO4 option (SPARC version) and gcc with -O4 (x86 version) for high levels of optimization”.

    We’re already there with some exceptions like starting to provide only the 64bit mysql builds.

    So yes we’ll use it in the sense that we’ll build our binaries with the optimizations but we won’t be using the Sun provided binaries because some of them are a bit behind (their mysql is 5.0.22 and we provide 5.0.33 packages. There are some real fixes in 5.0.33)

    — Jason Hoffman    645 days ago    #

  12. Ah, I think your RSS feed gets funky whenever you’re posting a new episode. Episode 11 was being pushed out just as I was trying to get episode 10.

    — Mark Adams    645 days ago    #

  13. David, I think you were looking for “mulier, mulieris”. I would have gone with:

    Recede cubiculum, mulier!

    The vocative form, of ocurse, being different than the nominative only for words ending in -us and -ius.

    — Jon Shea    644 days ago    #

  14. EMC is “evil machine corporation”

    — tim    644 days ago    #

  15. @Jon: well done.

    — David Young    639 days ago    #

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