I’m a software engineer, with an interest in operating systems, particularly in how they’re assembled – both the nitty gritty stuff, Makefiles, build systems, and the improvements to engineering-efficiency that a good build system provides, as well as the organisational work you must do in the background. Code is less than a half of the work of a good engineering org, and having people on staff who’ve discovered that by experience is a fantastic asset.
For more about why I’m recently blogging here, see https://timsfoster.wordpress.com/2021/06/30/the-joyent-years-2018-2021
Before working at Joyent, I spent a significant amount of my career at Sun (and Oracle, after it acquired Sun) culminating in my being appointed kernel tech lead for Solaris, then eventually leaving the company. I ought to also point out that the views expressed on this blog are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Joyent, Samsung or Oracle.
Right now, I’m living in Inch, Co. Down (Northern Ireland), and have lived in Wellington (New Zealand) and Dublin (Ireland) in the past. My brain spends a lot of its time in the Bay Area, which probably results in my accent being a bit weird.
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Ray Rajan said:
Hi Tim,
I have installed your auto-snahot but where canI get svc:/application/time-slider?
bash-3.00# svcs |grep -i auto
online Apr_25 svc:/system/filesystem/autofs:default
offline 10:54:26 svc:/system/filesystem/zfs/auto-snapshot:weekly
offline 11:07:13 svc:/system/filesystem/zfs/auto-snapshot:hourly
offline 11:07:18 svc:/system/filesystem/zfs/auto-snapshot:monthly
offline 11:07:29 svc:/system/filesystem/zfs/auto-snapshot:frequent
offline 11:25:45 svc:/system/filesystem/zfs/auto-snapshot:daily
bash-3.00# svcs -lp svc:/system/filesystem/zfs/auto-snapshot:weekly
fmri svc:/system/filesystem/zfs/auto-snapshot:weekly
name ZFS automatic snapshots
enabled true
state offline
next_state none
state_time Tue May 18 10:54:26 2010
restarter svc:/system/svc/restarter:default
dependency require_all/refresh svc:/application/time-slider (absent)
timsfoster said:
Sorry for the late reply! time-slider is included in OpenSolaris 2008.11 – you can get the sources at http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/jds/time-slider/
Sam said:
Hi Tim, I found your blog online. I understand you are a Solaris Admin because I’m in need of some urgent support and was hoping you could assist. Do you have a mobile I can reach you on?
Sam – 021 619 136
samuel_soh@hotmail.com
timsfoster said:
I’m a Solaris developer. You’re probably best off contacting your support rep. about specific support you’re looking for. More at http://www.oracle.com/nz/index.html
Adam Bouc said:
Do you have expertise in developing CAT (Computer Assisted Translation) Tools? My company is pursuing an exciting opportunity and is looking for CAT Tools developers. Please reply back with your immediate interest.
Best,
Adam Bouc
Director of Sales and Marketing
412 H St NE Suite.302
Washington DC 20002
Tel: (202)544-2942
http://www.tldinc.org
timsfoster said:
Thanks Adam, I do have experience developing CAT tools, but I’m not in that line of work any longer.