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Oh how I love my iRobot roomba
One of my friends recently purchased an iRobot Roomba, and he let me test it out while he was out of town. I thoroughly tested out his Roomba, and was amazed that it was able to do as good of a job as my existing vacuum cleaner! The Roomba also has a key advantage over my upright vacuum cleaner in that it could wander under couches, beds and dressers to get dust and debree that had made its way there. I was also overjoyed when I found out that once I pushed the CLEAN button on the Roomba, it would begin vacuuming the room with no manual intervention…
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I gave a presentation last night on debugging Java performance problems. I got a couple of requests to post links to the performance analysis tools I discussed, so here you go: DTraceToolkit Garbage collection log visualization utility Garbage collection visualization utility Java hotspot DTrace provider Java heap profiling agent Monitoring garbage collection with jstat Observing object allocation with DTrace Trending Java performance I would like to thank everyone for attending, and hope to see ya'll at a future meeting!
$ read more →Getting to know the Solaris iSCSI stack article
I just posted my article getting to know the Solaris iSCSI stack from the August ‘07 issue of SysAdmin magazine to my website. If you are looking to deploy Solaris iSCSI solutions in your environment, you might find the article useful.
$ read more →Slides from my FMA presentation
I gave a presentation on the Solaris Fault Management Architecutre (FMA) at the Atlanta opensolaris users group meeting this evening. If your curious what was discussed, you can look through the slides that were used for the presentation. I would like to thank everyone for coming out, and for being such a great audience. I would also like to thank Scott Dickson for putting the meeting together, and for getting the attendees some tasty pizza!
$ read more →Debugging Apache web server problems article
I just posted my article Debugging Apache web server problems from the July ‘07 issue of SysAdmin magazine to my website. If the need arises for you to debug problems with a server running Apache, hopefully the items described in the article will prove helpful.
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