Kebe Says - Dan McDonald's Blog

So recently I acquired @danmcd on Twitter. It was a long time coming. I was relatively late in early-adopting twitter: late spring 2009. By then someone else had claimed the handle danmcd, to my chagrin.

I was chagrined (in 2009) because I’ve been danmcd at SOMEWHERE since 1988. First .edus, even a .gov and .mil, and of course a series of .coms including my own kebe.com

(Who and/or what is Kebe might be another blog post in and of itself. In the meantime, this answer will suffice:

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Names are important. Especially in the virtual world, they establish not only presence, but often place as well. I ended up being @kebesays on twitter for a long time. Luckily, Twitter makes handle-swapping relatively easy, so anyone who was following @kebesays got moved over to @danmcd without issue. I still keep /* XXX KEBE SAYS … at the top, because if you see that in my code, it indicates work-in-progress issues; and aren’t we all works-in-progress?

Speaking of names and places: one name and one place that has been associated with Triton and SmartOS - Joyent - will no longer be associated with SmartOS or Triton. Samsung has decided to use other in-house technology for their future, and that work will continue with Joyent. SmartOS and Triton are being spun off to MNX Solutions, where I will be continuing SmartOS development. See the MNX Triton FAQ and my email for more.

Oh and yes, I’ll get to be ‘danmcd‘ at MNX as well.

Let's throw out the first pitch.

I've moved my blog over from blogspot to here at kebe.com. I've recently upgraded the hardware for my Home Data Center (the subject of a future post), and while running the Blahg software doesn't require ANY sort of hardware upgrade, I figured since I had the patient open I'd make the change now.

Yes it's been almost five years since last I blogged. Let's see, since the release of OmniOS r151016, I've:

• Cut r151018, r151020, and r151022.
• Got RIFfed from OmniTI.
• Watched OmniOS become OmniOSce with great success.
• Got hired at Joyent and made more contributions to illumos via SmartOS.
• Tons more I either wouldn't blog about, or just plain forgot to mention.

So I'm here now, and maybe I'll pick up again? The most prolific year I had blogging was 2007 with 11 posts, with 2011 being 2nd place with 10. Not even sure if I *HAVE* a half-dozen readers anymore, but now I have far more control over the platform (and the truly wonderful software I'm using).

While Blahg supports comments, I've disabled them for now. I might re-enabled them down the road, but for now, you can find me on one of the two socials on the right and comment there.

This is STILL only a test, but with an update. The big question remains: How quickly I can bring over my old Google owned blog entries?

(BTW Jeff, I could get used to this LaTeX-like syntax…)

You’ll start to see stuff trickle in. I’m using the hopefully-pushed-back-soon enhancements to Blahg that allows simple raw HTML for entries. I’ve done some crazy thing to extract, and maybe the hello-world post here will explain that.

Hello again, world!

OmniTI gave me an opportunity to get back into the networking stack, while still having the ability to stay a jack-of-all-trades at least some of the time. It was a hard decision to make, but as of this past Monday, I'm now at OmniTI. My first week I'm down here in Maryland at HQ, but I'll be working from my house primarily. I hope also with this new job to appear at conferences a bit more, and meet more illumos users and developers in person, especially OmniOS ones.

At Wendy's and Garrett's advice, I've set up shop here on Blogger/Blogspot.

I plan on importing all of my old Sun blog posts here, but I exported in a non-blogger non-XML (ick) format. So I'll be backpatching by copy-and-paste when time allows.

Happy blog reading, you half-dozen readers! :)

NOTE: Obviously this was from my old Sun blog.

Welcome to my Sun blog. I was encouraged by certain people (who appear on my list of other Sun blogs) to set up one of these, and so I have.

The title of this blog comes from one of the fundamental principles of the Internet architecture -- The End to End Argument. Anyone who claims to do networking for a living should at least know about this paper, if not be able to explain it to you. Basically, the end to end argument states that only the application(s) at the two endpoints of communication know exactly what's going on. The network should not get involved, unless it can provide a useful performance enhancement.

That's all for now. I will be back as time permits. Thanks!

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I'm working with Jeff to see if this works.